Billy Gardell

And you have to have a different relationship with that.

And so once I started to get that, I was able to maintain the loss of weight that I had.

This is the thing that made me famous.

You know...

That happened to me, and that's happening now.

I'm literally reintroducing myself as a stand-up.

And a lot of people didn't know I did stand-up even when I was on TV, which was weird.

I did everything backwards.

I had a sitcom, then did a stand-up.

You know what I mean?

But I did have those thoughts, and there is some truth to that.

But I look at the positive, which means I can start to go out for roles I wouldn't have been able to go out for before, which is kind of happening now, which is nice.

And I did have to reintroduce myself to the industry, and now I'm an older person, so I have to look for those kind of roles as well.

What was going on with my health superseded all that.

Like I have a wife and a kid, and I was like, what is the point of if I keep working and then I just drop dead somewhere?

Because I was like, I was overweight.

I was a smoker at the time, sleep apnea, asthma, type 2 diabetes at the time.

And so, you know, I was a walking time bomb.

My resting heartbeat at one point was like 136.

That's sitting still.