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"John Goodman opened up about his dramatic slim down during a Wednesday appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman.\r\nLast week, the often-portly actor, nearly 58, turned heads at a Hollywood event with a much thinner figure.\r\n\r\nThe Roseanne star estimated that he was &amp;quot;pushing 400&amp;quot; pounds at his heaviest. His battle of the bulge has been an annual ritual, he explained. &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;d lose 60 pounds every spring.&amp;quot;\r\nHis weakness: beer. &amp;quot;I got too fond of the corn and barley and just started missing it too much, and that screwed everything up. I just gained it all back and then some every year.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nFriends and family were concerned, he said. (&amp;quot;[They said], you&amp;apos;re breaking furniture, for lord&amp;apos;s sake!&amp;quot;)\r\nHow&amp;apos;d he do it? &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m getting a lot of exercise,&amp;quot; he said. His goals: &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m gonna base it on the fat content of my body. Whatever&amp;apos;s healthy and right -- not go nuts.&amp;quot; See the top 10 timeless exercises.\r\n\r\nHis goal weight? &amp;quot;30 pounds,&amp;quot; he joked. &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m not gonna look like Paris Hilton or anything.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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