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I am Steve Vaught, a clinically obese man who walked across America to lose weight and regain my life. I chronicle the entire journey on my website www.thefatmanwalking.com detailing how this is my pilgrimage for salvation.

Obesity in America is fast becoming an epidemic and I simply refuse to be a casualty of that epidemic or my own failures.

Being overweight is a not a disease but instead the result of bad behavior and there is no cure or quick fix for being overweight. Instead the solution to being overweight is to accept and correct your own bad behaviors that brought you to where you are today.

The solution is very simple. Either you do something about it or you don't.

"A fine setting for a fit of despair, it occurred to him. If only I were here by accident instead of design. K." Kafka, The Castle.