Fierce Dude Loses 400 Pounds With Some Help From Taylor Swift

In 2013, Ronnie Brower of Syracuse, New York, weighed 675 pounds due to a diet of excessive drinking, pill-popping, and eating. The 28-year-old was told by his doctor if he didn't make changes to his lifestyle, he'd be dead by 35. That's when Taylor Swift stepped in. (Figuratively. Although imagining Taylor Swift as a Jillian Michaels-style personal trainer is my new favorite thing.)

Speaking to The Daily Dot, Brower's friend and teacher, Joe Bufano, opened up about Brower's relationship with Taylor:

He told me in his darkest days...he would often listen to Taylor, and it was the messages in her music that kind of gave him some source of joy and happiness. It kept him buying into life.

Um, I think we can all say that Queen Taylor's music has kept us buying into life for some time now.

And it made a huge difference. Two years later, and he's down to 250 pounds.

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