{"id":6881,"date":"2025-10-28T11:49:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailycupofwellness\/?p=6881"},"modified":"2025-11-21T08:38:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:38:31","slug":"actor-from-the-blindside-loses-over-200lbs-after-near-death-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailycupofwellness\/2025\/10\/actor-from-the-blindside-loses-over-200lbs-after-near-death-experience.html","title":{"rendered":"Actor From &#8216;The Blindside&#8217; Loses Over 200lbs After Near Death Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6962\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6962\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6962\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/410\/2025\/10\/Quinton_Aaron_credit-Quinton-Aaron-Instagram-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quinton_Aaron_Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Actor Quintin Aaron\u2019s role as football player Michael Oher in \u201cThe Blindside\u201d earned him a lot of notice for his massive size. However, Aaron\u2019s weight ballooned to an all-time high of 575lbs in 2021, which was far from impressive. It wasn\u2019t long before Quinton realized he was in trouble. \u201cFood was my drug. I was eating when I wasn&#8217;t even hungry,\u201d he told \u201c<a href=\"youtube.com\/watch?si=P0ATXuqtNJvR6Oxr&amp;v=wnsTadEJVRM&amp;feature=youtu.be\">The Recovery Vow<\/a>\u201d podcast in September. \u201cJust going out and buying food and sitting in my car in the parking lot, eating it and crying and not knowing why. I&#8217;m like, \u2018Why do I feel this way?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aaron\u2019s health soon began to fail, culminating in a near-death experience that he characterized as a \u201ccome-to-Jesus kind of moment\u201d to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/blind-side-actor-quinton-aaron-drops-over-200-pounds-following-near-death-experience\"><em>Fox News<\/em><\/a>. Aaron described an incident in 2021 when he was sitting on a wall at the waterfront in Mandeville, Louisiana. \u201cThere&#8217;s one day I&#8217;m sitting there on the wall, and I&#8217;m just listening to the water vibe, and then I wake up underwater. So I literally passed out, fell off the wall, and it was like a 12-foot drop, but the water was only three feet deep. I didn&#8217;t know that at the time. Well, thank God it was three feet deep, because I can&#8217;t swim,\u201d he recalled of the terrifying moment. He described waking up under the water with his back in pain. \u201cBut while I&#8217;m underwater, I hear this voice say, \u2018Stand up.\u2019 And so, I stand, like I start trying to get to my feet. The water is pushing me into the rocks, and I&#8217;m kinda like hitting my head up against something. I don&#8217;t know what it was, but I can&#8217;t see, because the water\u2019s dirty brown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quinton was able to get himself up eventually and was taken to a hospital. He learned later he might have passed out after experiencing diabetic ketoacidosis, which is caused by extremely high blood sugar levels. He had to spend a few weeks in the hospital and felt God was calling on him to make a change. He cut out sugar, incorporated intermittent fasting, and stopped overeating. Aaron recently took to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPtsgHAkZYy\/\">Instagram<\/a> to announce he had lost 200lbs. He said he hopes to lose another 55lbs. He is also hoping that his new healthy lifestyle will help him reverse some of the health challenges he\u2019s experienced, including being diagnosed with congestive heart failure at 35. \u201cI\u2019m gonna get rid of that diabetes, I\u2019m gonna get rid of that congestive heart failure \u2014 those are reversible,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If you tell me something\u2019s impossible, I\u2019ll show you it\u2019s possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Quintin Aaron\u2019s role as football player Michael Oher in \u201cThe Blindside\u201d earned him a lot of notice for his massive size. However, Aaron\u2019s weight ballooned to an all-time high of 575lbs in 2021, which was far from impressive. It wasn\u2019t long before Quinton realized he was in trouble. \u201cFood was my drug. 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