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  When the way of life weighs you down, it’s up to you to pull yourself back up. And if you don’t have the muscles to pull the weight, then start exercising them. Here’s an inspirational story about Blake Gauthier, who dropped half of his weight after he suffered a life-changing heart attack and turned his life 180 degrees for the better, and gradual changes made him a role model of weight loss. The bad habits snowballed to a point where he weighed 530 pounds. At such a weight, something had to give, and it did. Back in 2018, he suffered a heart attack. Blake told the story of that fateful moment: “I was walking down the street with my girlfriend at the time—who, luckily for me, was a nurse—and suddenly I couldn’t catch my breath. I remember reaching out to grab the wall of a building. The next thing I knew, I was in an ambulance. They had just brought me back after dying of a heart attack. I was revived in the ambulance on my way to the hospital and that was one hell of a wake-up ...