CAREY GETS HIS LIFE BACK AFTER BIG SLIMDOWN=20
Funnyman-turned-U.S. game show king DREW CAREY is living life to the full after losing more than 70 pounds (31.7 kilograms) - because now he’s con vinced he’s going to live past 60.
The former heavyweight The Price is Right host, 52, admits he always fe lt sure he’d die before his 60th - and now he can’t believe how good life is.
He tells the upcoming issue of Parade magazine, "The hardest diet I was ever on was the one when I was fat. You can only wear fat clothes, you d on’t feel good, your sex life gets damaged, you don’t have energy for any thing. It’s horrible.
"I always thought I was going to die before I was 60. My father died of a heart attack in his 40s. I’m not an idiot. The writing was on the wall …. I look in the mirror and I feel like I’m in my 20s again. I feel like I have my whole life back. I could live to be 100 now." Now weighing in at 185 pounds (83.9 kilograms), Carey has set himself t he goal of losing another 15 pounds (6.8 kilograms) by Halloween (31Oct10 ).
And he tells Parade his drastic weightloss was sparked by the onset of diabetes and the fact he couldn’t keep up with fiancee Nicole Jaracz’s fi ve-year-old son Connor.
Carey explains, "I’d be like, ‘Connor, I can’t,’ and he’d say, ‘C’mon d ad!’ That was a terrible feeling. I thought, ‘I’m never going to see him graduate high school.’" And he has promised himself and brother Roger, another super slimmer, t hat he won’t pile the pounds back on - after they attended the funeral of their sibling Neal, who suffered a heart attack earlier this summer, age d 64.
He reveals, "I felt like I could have been attending my own funeral." In August (10), the comedian completed a 10 kilometre (6.2 mile) charit y run and now he has his sights set on a marathon.
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