text:  As an overweight kid, I really didn't have anyone to turn to. I had a true compulsion for food, and I couldn't stop it. Simmons had a long and intimate journey with his body weight. He moved to Los Angeles in 1973, and he tried to find ways to be physically active. But he did not fit in with the muscly workout dudes in the gyms, and women did not want him in their aerobics classes.