John Goodman said that transferring his addictive behavior from drinking to eating led him to hit nearly 400lbs at one point.
Goodman, 74, explained to The New Yorker about how his weight would rise and fall after he got sober in 2007, when he was 55.
‘I’d lose 60 pounds in a summer, gain it all back – 70 pounds, 80 pounds – and that got tiring,’ the veteran actor told the outlet. ‘I took steps so I wouldn’t have to do that anymore.
‘I was almost 400 pounds. I was eating alcoholically after I stopped drinking.’
Goodman said his decision to quit drinking
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