The Pillsbury Throwboy is ready to get serious about his weight.
Former Giants quarterback Jared Lorenzen was listed at 285 pounds when he was cut by the Colts in 2008. With his weight ballooning to 500 pounds last year, the ex-QB also dubbed The Hefty Lefty has launched a video project that will chronicle his endeavor to regain his health and inspire others to lose weight.
The Jared Lorenzen Project will be documented on the Now Lets Get Fit Foundation website, Nowletsgetfit.com, which will include weekly workouts and nutrition plans for those who want to follow and participate in the 36-year-olds journey.
Right now, if I didnt wake up tomorrow, it wouldnt be a shock to many people, Lorenzen said in a video posted on the projects Facebook page on Friday. Well, yeah, you know, look how big he is? Damn.
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Lorenzen, who backed up Eli Manning in 2007, last played in 2014 as quarterback for the Northern Kentucky River Monsters in the Continental Indoor Football League. His girth on the gridiron, however, drew most of the attention.
As he continued to struggle with his increasing weight, Lorenzen met the man he now hopes will help change his life forever.
The project is the creation of filmmaker Anthony Holt, who first connected with Lorenzen at the debut of Holts 2015 documentary Gone In An Instant, which told the story of Antoine Walker. Walker went from multi-million dollar NBA stardom to bankruptcy, and has since remade himself.
We started spitballin and thats where we came up with the idea of doing it, Lorenzen told Kentucky.com. Theres going to be a lot of me everywhere, but hopefully, when were done, there wont be as much of me.
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Lorenzen, a record-holder in his college days with the Kentucky Wildcats in the early 2000s, said he doesnt have a target weight for himself but added that he plans to take a mobile gym on tour for workouts with children, who are a focus of the project.
We want to make sure kids get involved, he said. My (part) is going to be the educational side of it with the kids. Letting people know that, Hey, you need to have halthy choices in food, you need to exercise, you need to do some of tose things you hear about or you could become big like this. I fight my demons every day, so Ive got to continue to work at it.
