FORMER NFL star Nate Newton went through a mind-blowing body transformation and lost over 170 pounds after his playing days.
As an offensive lineman, Newton played 14 seasons in the NFL from 1986-1999.
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In 13 of those seasons, Newton was a member of the Dallas Cowboys.
He’d garner a total of six Pro Bowl appearances while contributing to Super Bowl teams.
The 6-foot-3 lineman weighed over 350 pounds and, at his heaviest, weighed 401 pounds.
Newton was so huge that the Cowboys’ equipment manager had to change his entire ordering system.
As a result, the Orlando, Florida native was nicknamed The Kitchen.
After a one-year stint with the Carolina Panthers in 1999, Newton retired from the NFL.
He spent 32 months in prison for drug trafficking in the 2000s.
A reality check came to Newton when it came to his health and turning his life around.
In 2010, Newton underwent a new surgery at the time called a vertical gastrectomy, per The Dallas Morning News.
The operation removes up to 75 percent of a patient’s stomach and staples the rest of the portion.
It’s an operation that’s usually done for individuals who are too big to undergo other ways of weight-loss surgery.
Newton now weighs 220 pounds — his lightest weight since the eighth grade.
The former offensive lineman works out and trains similar to his NFL days.
And his goal is to get down to 196 pounds.
Hall of Famer Deion Sanders, who was a teammate of Newton’s with the Cowboys, was stunned to see the transformation of the former offensive lineman.
“I’m happy for him because I know I’m going to have him for another 70, 80 years,” Sanders said in 2010.
