January is a time when a lot of people feel guilty about having overindulged over the holidays and try their level best to lose weight or get healthy.
Some people give up booze and have a dry month. Others decide to hit the gym or try dieting instead. Whatever your method, the hardest part is often simply finding the motivation to keep going.
So if you're looking for an inspirational transformation to aspire to, then actor Ethan Suplee - who portrayed the character of Randy Hickey in the sitcom My Name Is Earl - is a good guy to emulate.
Suplee used to be overweight, but over the last 20 years has made an astonishing effort to lose weight and gain muscle.
He's been documenting his health and fitness journey on his official Instagram account, and the 44-year-old currently boasts over 442,000 followers on the platform.
Now the actor has posted an incredible side-by-side picture showing the amazing difference between his past and his current physique.
He captioned his post:
"20 years between these pictures. This was created for an article on today.com TFW you realize the nudie pic you posted of yourself wasn’t even the best one."
In a recent interview with Men's Health on the subject of his weight loss, Suplee stated:
"I'm at my absolute pinnacle. I spent 35, 40 years without taking my shirt off in public. The shadows haven't been enhanced. There's loose skin. There are scars. This is who I am."
"My instinct, as someone who has been trying to lose weight for so long, is that I want my numbers - the number on the scale, my body fat percentage - to go down. I'm trying now to learn to live in, and be happy with, the maintenance period
In a 2017 interview with Entertainment Weekly on the subject of his new health regimen: "Initially, the casting directors didn't want me to come in because I'd lost a bunch of weight. Apparently they had proposed me a bunch of times, but the casting directors were like, 'No, he's too thin now.'"
"I'd gained a bunch of weight back because I actually didn't find being thin all that it's cracked up to be. So we convinced them that I was heavier again, and I went in, and that was that. I was heavy enough."
He continued: "After My Name Is Earl, I started obsessively riding bicycles. I actually did get properly thin at one point - I was nine percent body fat. But I was also riding a bicycle six to eight hours a day, six days.
"After two years of that, my wife said, 'Hey, idiot, you can't retire and ride bicycles. You have to go get a job.' So then [when I started looking for work], I found that people were like, 'Who are you? We don't know you. You're this new person.'"
He added: "So a couple of years ago I made the decision: I'm not going to kill myself to be thin when nobody knows me as a thin person, and I do think it is affecting the kind of jobs I'm getting. And so I just kind of relaxed on my diet."