USA Today presents the story of Tom Slater, a man that after realizing that life is short decided to quit eating cheeseburgers and fries. His weight passed from 288 pounds to 162 pounds after his decision.

Slater is one of the readers of USA Today which accepted to be part of the USA TODAY's annual Weight-Loss. You can read the whole story on this link.

You can find comments made by the readers on a Facebook update of USA Today.