In January 2023, 31-year-old David Danna’s story was shared in the Jewish Chronicle. It’s a uniquely American story of determination, perseverance, unexpected love, and newfound faith that is the perfect year-end capper for Feel-Good Friday.
America makes you fat. By the time Dave Danna was 30 years old, he was so obese that he no longer knew how much he weighed.
His digital scales topped out at 399.5 lbs, and Danna estimates that he topped out somewhere beyond 420 lbs (190 kg). […]
Danna rejected fashionable and dangerous excuses about “body positivity”. He cut the carbs from his diet, stopped eating takeout, and joined his local Planet Fitness. “I’m not going to normalise obesity,” he tweeted, “I’m going to defeat it.”
“I’m not going to normalise obesity, I’m going to defeat it.” Imagine what we could accomplish if we had that attitude toward the things…
