In 2015， my wife left me, and my health sharply became worse. At that time, I weighed up to 254 kilos. I _____ knew that my increasing waistline and poor health _____ stress in my marriage and resulted in my wife's _____ to leave me. Every day, I was _____ mostly because of my weight.

But after I _____ a love song I'm Gonna Be（500 Miles） one day, I decided to try my best to _____ all back Just like the character in the song, I was _____ across America. I wanted to prove to my wife that I was _____ about saving our marriage.

Without doubt, the well-known love song from a Scottish band turned out to be the spark of inspiration I_____needed. While the character in the song walks a thousand miles to his lovers door, I will be riding much more than that______the distance from east coast to West coast is about 3, 000 miles（about 4,800km）.

I also started a（n） ______ called Fat Guy Across America to ______ my progress throughout the journey. In the first week, I had a lot of ______ . but the huge amount of ______ that has flooded in on social media has _____ to reduce all my anxieties. And while the countless messages of support appear on my website, I become more confident and ______ writing, because I have a very ______ way to go. Although I don't know whether the ____is good as I wish, I will do all in my full ______ to change. Although i was not good before. I am ______ to change to be a better man.

At my heaviest, I weighed 370 pounds. I had a very poor relationship with food: I used it to _______ bad feelings, to make myself feel better, and to celebrate. Worried about my health, I tried various diets but nothing _______. I came to believe that I could do nothing about my _______.

Then something enlightening happened when I was 50. That year, I attended a seminar(研讨会). One participant _______ me with her project, where she not only lost 125 pounds, but also raised $ 25,000 for homeless children. What a perfect _______ of healing oneself and healing the world! _______ by her story, I created the As We Heal, the World Heals project. My goal was to lose 150 pounds in one year and raise $50,000 _______ a campaign to end hunger.

As I began my program, I was afraid that I would _______ the same difficulties that beat me before. But there were also signs that I was on the right _______. I sent letters to everyone I knew, telling them about my project. It turned out perfect. Donations began ________ in from hundreds of people.

Of course, I also took some ________ steps to lose weight. I ________ a physician, ate healthy meals, and most importantly, exercised ________.

A year later, I ________ my goal! I feel that I’ve been given a second life to devote to something that is ________ and enormous.

Our house was across the street from the entrance of a famous hospital in the city. We lived down-stairs and _________ the upstairs rooms to outpatients(门诊病人) at the clinic. As I was _______ supper one summer evening, there was a knock at the door. I opened it and saw a truly awful-looking man whose face was _________ and red.

He told me he’d been _________ a room since noon, but he had no success. “I guess it’s my _________. I know it looks terrible, but my doctor says with a few more treatments...”

For a moment, I _________, but his following words convinced me, “I could sleep in this chair on the porch. My bus leaves early in the morning.” So I told him we would find him a bed but to rest on the porch.

When I had finished the dishes, I went to talk with him for a few minutes. He told me he fished for a living to _________ his daughter, her five children, and her husband, who was _________ disabled from a back injury. He didn’t tell it by way of complaint, but was grateful that no pain _________ his disease, which was a form of skin cancer. He thanked God for giving him the __________ to keep going. On his __________ trip, he brought a big fish as a gift. Other times we received packages in the mail. When I received these packages, I often thought of a(an) __________ our next-door neighbor made after he left that first morning. “Did you keep that awful-looking man last night? You may lose roomers by __________ such people!”

Maybe we did lose roomers once or twice. But I know our family will always be __________ to have known him; from him, we learned to accept the bad without complaint and the good with __________.