Friends and family tried to snap me out of it, but they seemed to make my feelings of shame and sadness worse. Time passed and my heartbreak didn’t heal-in fact, it seemed to get worse and, after a few months, set off a major depression. I couldn’t believe that I was alone and divorced again. With a track record of failed marriage behind me, I was hopeful and excited that this time it would be forever. I pinned all of my hopes and dreams on this relationship. Most excitingly, I got married after a whirlwind romance. I found work I enjoyed and spent time with family. Thanks to my dietary habits, I had a healthy waistline, bright eyes, and sound sleep. I juiced, blended, and ate micronutrient-dense plant food all the time. My diet was excellent, with an emphasis on vegetables I had come to know and love. For the next three years, I stayed in good shape, running and swimming. I was a poster boy for successful change. Being an inspiration to people is pretty intoxicating, let me tell you. Well, that little film has been seen by more than 20 million people around the world, and I’ve received amazing emails and Facebook messages from people who were inspired by my story. Life after the Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead movie. He jumped on a plane back to the States and put together a team of people who helped me lose more than 200 pounds by Rebooting, and my story made it into the movie. Finally, at a terribly low point, I called him and left a voicemail, reminding him of our meeting and asking for help.Ī few days later, Joe called me back and made good on his promise, one that he’d made to a complete stranger in a truck-stop parking lot. Well, that card stayed tucked into the visor of my truck for months. He handed me his business card and sped off onto the highway. Turns out, it didn’t taste bad at all.īefore we parted company, Joe explained that he was just a regular guy-not a doctor or health expert-but that if I ever wanted to try it for myself, he would help me Reboot. He was making something he called a Mean Green, which seemed to have more fresh vegetables in it than I had eaten all year and which looked suspiciously like liquid grass.īut I was so impressed with the difference between the pictures he had shown me and the guy standing in front of me that I asked if I could try some.
FAT SICK AND NEARLY DEAD PHIL FULL
In all of the years I spent driving a truck, I had never seen someone with a juicer in the back and bags full of produce. He walked me over to his SUV since it was time to get his “dinner” ready. It was like looking at a different person. Turns out, we had the same autoimmune disease, in addition to struggling with our weight.īy then, Joe had been doing what he called “Rebooting” for about 40 days-drinking nothing but fresh vegetable and fruit juice-and showed me pictures of what he had looked like two months earlier. Spending all of my time alone on the road, I was tipping the scales at more than 400 pounds when I met this cheerful, friendly Australian guy in a truck-stop parking lot in Winslow, Arizona. I was driving a truck for a living when I met Joe and eating a typical trucker’s diet (which is all the crap you can imagine). For the last two years, I’d been keeping a terrible secret.įat, Sick & Nearly Dead 2 is a sequel to Joe’s first film, which followed not only his transformation from obesity and ill health but mine, too.
FAT SICK AND NEARLY DEAD PHIL MOVIE
I was nervous-OK, scared-about what the movie would reveal. On September 18, 2014, in more than 600 theaters around the country, people saw my friend Joe Cross’ movie Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead 2 for the first time.
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