Former University of Kentucky quarterback Jared Lorenzen has decided to take action after topping out at more than 500 pounds.
Lorenzen has started The Jared Lorenzen Project, which he recently introduced on Facebook.
Lorenzen recently spoke to TODAY:
Stepping on the scale last year for the first time since he left the NFL in 2008, former New York Giants quarterback Jared Lorenzen was hit harder than he ever had been by a blitzing linebacker.
At least it felt that way when he read 502.8 pounds on the digital display.
He had a sense he was putting on too much weight each time he had to go up a shirt size — 3XL to 4XL — but nothing prepared him to see that number.
“It’s embarrassing, it’s life-altering, it’s scary,” Lorenzen told TODAY. “When I watched the little screen … I looked at myself and even then, I thought, ‘I’m not that guy.’
“I was to a point where I realized that if I went to bed and didn’t wake up, people would say, ‘Well look at him, he’s huge.’ It wouldn’t be unexpected. That’s where it hit me: Oh, my God, I could die.”
