Riverside residents Jason Rogers and Chris Cooke wanted to lose weight.

Jason was up to 478 pounds and needed to lose weight to be eligible for bypass surgery. So, he started walking around the neighborhood with Chris, who weighed about 340 pounds.

Jason wondered...what if he skipped the surgery, and they WALKED the 2,700 miles from Buffalo to Los Angeles instead.

Everyone thought they were nuts – except Chris's brother Joe, who said he'd join them.

Joe only weighed about 200 pounds, but he was out of work and sick of sitting home playing video games all day.

So they started out on May 17, 2015.  They walked 20 miles a day.

This week, they just crossed into Arizona!

 

Before they left, Jason had lost about 100 pounds without bypass surgery, and he's dropped another 68 pounds along the way.  He's now down to 310!

Chris has shed about 39 pounds, and is down to around 300.

They should make it to LA by early April!

They've established a GoFundMe page to help with expenses.  At last check, they raised just over $8000.

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