When I first walked in the door at KCEN On July 5, 2016, I didn’t know what to expect. Since then, I’ve grown more than I ever could have imagined, as a journalist and a person. After almost 4-1/2 years on the shift known as “Weekend Edition,” I am incredibly humbled to announce that this will be my final weekend as weekend anchor and that beginning Monday, I will be the new Sports Director at KCEN. To Nick Canizales, my friend, you’ve left incredibly large shoes to fill and I can’t wait to do my best to try to fill them. In the mean time, tonight, tune in to Nick’s last show, Friday Night Lights for Week 10 of the Texas High School Football Season!
Health update: 10 months in to this health journey, I am now officially down 50 pounds from where I started back after the Sugar Bowl. When Coach Haire sent me this picture his family took, he sent it with, “What’s up, Slim? You’re gonna be as skinny as me before long.” A far cry from hearing from people “What’s up, big guy?”
Four years ago today, I walked in to the @kcennews studios for the first time as an employee. It’s been a hell of a ride: countless severe storms, 4 national championship games, 2 major college football coaching changes, 1 Cat. 4 hurricane, 1 mass shooting, hundreds of high school and college football games, a few awards, a whole lot of miles and 1 global health crisis. Thankful for every step on this journey and looking forward to what’s still in store moving forward in Central Texas.
Today, I hit a major milestone I’d been working six months toward. And I’ve still got a long way to go. I’m not publicly acknowledging this for sympathy or pats on the back, I just want anybody else who may be going through the same struggle I did, and still do, to know there is a way to lose the weight. Because, for me, the hardest part was the thought process.
