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We first met Rick Benson last year after he had lost 200 pounds. Now one year later, we an update on his journey to lose weight and regain his life: in this special report Life after Losing 300 pounds.

Rick Benson is wearing baggy shorts and a sleeveless t-shirt on the day WDBJ7 visited. It's something he could not wear two years ago. He only had one outfit that fit: size 7X sweatsuit that he says were beginning to get tight.

He walked from the living room to the kitchen in just a few seconds. His feet moved easily. This too would have been nearly impossible two years ago.

Getting out of bed was a struggle. Taking a few steps to the bathroom was exhausting.

You see Rick Benson weighed 523 pounds.

On the day this month when we visited Benson at his Salem home he pulled out a box of old photographs. In one, he's seen sitting on a couch. "That was pretty much my life," Benson said. "That's what I did. I sat. I did nothing, ate."

"This was just an existence. I wasn't living. I went from meal to meal," Benson explained. "Ate slept watched TV, that was it. That was my entire life."

Battling weight has been a lifelong problem for Benson. "I was heavy as a child. I went through all the years of being picked on and all that," he said.

Two years ago Benson had given up. "I was convinced that was it. I was pretty much going to eat myself to death," Benson said.

Then one day Benson's son said something that made him take notice. He told his father he didn't want to bury him. Those were the words that prompted Benson to make a trip to the Weigh Station in Roanoke.

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Life after Losing 300 Pounds: How a Salem Man Did It

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