This Woman Shared The 'Ugly Reality' Of Extreme Weight LossBy Mustafa GatollariUpdated Nov. 19 2020, 9:57 p.m. ET Most positive changes in my life always came from a strong reaction I had to something negative. For Kayla Hurley, it was when she was kicked off of a roller coaster at 24-years-old for being too heavy. Just a few years ago, Hurley tipped the scales at a whopping 357 pounds and it was that fateful day at the amusement park when she decided to make a change in her life for the better.