“My health is pretty poor. Honestly, I’m sure I’ve ruined my health. Maybe not ruined it, but put it down detrimentally for a long time. A lot of it attributes to mental health. It’s really hard to make yourself go to the gym when you hate yourself. There’s no need or want or desire to make yourself better. I was there for years. I’m just getting a hold of it now. I was literally homeless, I just wasn’t on the streets. I had to stay at emergency sheltering and things like that. Before that, I was floating around. I got tired of it. I knew I had to do things better for myself. I let my mental health beat me up for years. I tried things to cope that weren’t the healthiest. Eventually I got sick of it. After I got a job, I started going to the gym because I could finally afford it. But now that I’ve let my health go for years, I wonder if there’s a chance to get it to a good state again? I look at my health now as something that is a concern. Not just my well-being and how I feel about myself, but the longevity of my life. Changes need to be made. It’s only been the last 2 years that I’ve started saying hey, I should do something proactively about this because I don’t want to die at 50. I’ve really been trying to get a handle on things. I don’t really have anybody right now that would say hey, I believe in you, so I’ve had to do it myself. I think that was part of it too. Realizing that nobody was going to pat me on the back when I was trying to lift myself up, but I brought it to a head now and I’m trying to make changes. It is a work in progress man. I think it’s going to go well. The future is looking better now.”