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By BRETT CIHON Port Orchard Independent Reporter June 15, 2012 Updated 2:54 PM

Jonathan McHenry knew he needed to lose weight. At 550 pounds, he would sit in his Port Orchard home watching the NBC reality show, The Biggest Loser and think, Why not me?

I would sit on my couch eating ice cream and brownies and crying, thinking this could change my life, 32-year-old McHenry said.

Nearly two years later, its safe to say his life has changed.

In November, McHenry finished a year of filming and training for ABCs Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition for an episode that will air July 22. Though he wont reveal his weight before the show airs, the South Kitsap High School graduate is a trainer at the Annapolis Fitness on 2065 Bay St., where he teaches a boot-camp style fitness class while keeping a full-time job as a salesman.

Hes happy, hes healthy and he feels like a new man.

All I wanted was to be healthy, he said. The show was the perfect opportunity.

McHenry was always a big guy. But it wasnt until recently, he said, that his weight reached uncontrollable levels. So in 2010, he decided to film an audition tape for The Biggest Loser. While he wasnt picked by that show, television producers came to him and told him they liked his tape and were hoping he was interested in filming for a different weight-loss program.

Extreme Makeover Weight Loss Edition features overweight people who are given a personal trainer for 90 days. Then, the trainer, weight-loss guru and former 650-pound virgin, Chris Powell leaves the contestant and they have the remainder of the year to live at home in their normal environment and lose weight, a unique component that truly challenges participants, McHenry said.

We do it all from home, in my own element, McHenry said. It gives people hope that they dont need to go on a ranch to lose weight.

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Local resident to appear on Extreme Weight Loss show

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