After surgery, Kyle Wright cut the candy and put on his running shoes.

A little more than a year ago, Kyle Wright weighed 406 pounds and was addicted to Milky Ways and In-n-Out Double-Double's.

"If someone told me I'd be running a half marathon," he says, "it would have been a punch line to a joke."

Let the laughs begin.

Kyle was always a husky boy, more interested in eating than playground games. The first diet he remembers attempting was in the summer of fifth grade.

It failed, so he put away his hopes of running as fast as the other kids, and decided he would just have to be funnier.

After high school, Kyle started an appliance delivery service. That morphed into The King of Ding, an appliance outlet in Stanton where he sells new appliances with small dents at reduced prices.

But the appliance biz isn't always good for a man who likes his food. Out on the delivery truck, temptations swirl like the smell of an In-n-Out burger on the warm Southern California wind.

He knew all the spots. If he had a delivery in Bellflower, it was going to be Big Mike's for lunch. Anaheim? Tom's Tacos. A delivery to Long Beach meant a side trip to Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles. Even gas stations were minefields, loaded with candy bars and soda.

He tried to fight back, doing the Atkins diet three times, hiring personal trainers, and once half-heartedly attempting Weight Watchers.

His wife Candice fought for him too. She buried ice cream in the freezer under the meat, stashed the chocolate syrup behind the detergent in the laundry cabinet, hid the M & M's in pots and pans. What she didn't know was that hewas hiding Milky Ways in his truck and stopping on his way home from work to inhale a burger and fries before she served him skinless chicken and salad for dinner.

"I was constantly thinking of food," Kyle says. "What's for breakfast? What's for lunch? What's for dessert?"

He was an emotional eater, a stress eater, a social eater; he had it all. Meanwhile, his knee was throbbing, he was one point away from high blood pressure and deliveries left him winded. His home scale stopped counting at 350 pounds.

His wife, on the other hand, weighs...... READ MORE