The 39-year-old comedian sat down with BuzzFeed to discuss his struggles with weight loss and how he maintains a healthy diet on the road.
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Gabriel Iglesias, the 39-year-old stand-up comic who’s starred in such films as Magic Mike XXL and The Fluffy Movie and the upcoming reality series Fluffy Breaks Even on Fuse, took time to chat with BuzzFeed about his personal mission to lose weight — 118 pounds in two years — and stay healthy.
“It has nothing to do with the way I look,” he tells BuzzFeed. “The amount of attention that I get as a big dude is amazing. I’m trying to improve my [health] so I can be around. I got no problems with how I look.”
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As Gabriel reveals in The Fluffy Movie, he saw a doctor after “waking up every morning with a 300-plus sugar level.” He was told he had two years to live: “That’s the biggest wake-up call you can get. Your habit is hurting you. You need to check yourself. You still have a chance.”
Gabriel, who has diabetes, talks about how the disease was destroying his body: “There was one point where the back of my legs were almost black from poor circulation… I was pushing 437 pounds so I had really swollen legs… The skin was cracking on the inside part of my legs. There were parts where I was bleeding.”
“My vision started messing with me. And then my kidneys right now are still messed up from it.”
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