Varsity Blues Actor Ron Lester Loses 315 Pounds

The Today Show is an NBC morning news program that most recently profiled Jane Fonda and her usage of the dreaded "C-word." By that I mean the actress was talking about a monologue in which she was asked to perform that was titled with a word known as an offensive term referring to the vagina and apparently our world crumbled as a result. However, forget that scandal, I turned on The Today Show and found that they had a rather surprising and positive guest on a segment called "Take It Off Today: Weight Loss In America." The guest was actor Ron Lester.

Ron Lester is probably best known by movie fans as Billy Bob from the teen football film Varsity Blues. He was also in 43 episodes of the show called Popular and some episodes of Freaks and Geeks; not to mention other film roles such as one in Not Another Teen Movie. Varsity Blues and the character Billy Bob, however, really put him in the spotlight and to be blunt: he was known as: "The big, fat guy." Well, you cannot really call him that anymore; no longer does his talent have to be fit into roles for actors who are over 500 pounds. Actor Ron Lester appeared on The Today Show showing off the fact that he has lost around 315 pounds!

His physical transformation is quite remarkable, he looks like a fit new person. Along with being less blimp-like he has also found that he is shorter; two inches of his height were lost along with fat from the top of his head and the bottoms of his feet. His face is said to be 8 inches narrower, and overall he had 43 pounds of skin removed from his body. How did he do it?