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He was too large to weigh himself on a bathroom scale. So he had to go to the scrap yard to be weighed.
"My scales just kept saying 'Error,'" "My doctor told me, 'Richard you're not going to live. You're not going to see your 30th birthday,'"
he recalled. "Knowing I wasn't going to see my 30th birthday, knowing I wasn't able to have any kids because of me being obese, I gave up on life."
Richard Neal credits his success to the P90X program, (more users write about on the page you can find here