64 year old Grandpa Robert Durbin drops 70lbs., gets into shape and becomes internet star...

For most of us, Thanksgiving will be a time to chow down and experience deep calorie regret. Some of us may even do a guilt-fueled workout on Friday to work off the extra food.

Not Robert Durbin. The 64-year-old Louisville, Ky., married father of five doesn't need to talk himself into working out. He already does it seven days a week, for at least four hours a day. And he doesn't overeat. Not anymore.

Durbin wasn't always so disciplined. Seven years ago, he was so overweight that he felt his health was going downhill fast.

He was forced to wear braces, and needed a cane or a walker to get around.

With grandchildren on the way, Durbin decided to make a change. He joined a local gym and started working out on machines that didn't require him to stand. Within eight months, he had lost 60 pounds.

He's now dropped more than 70 pounds, lost 18 inches off his waist and weighs 145 pounds, but it's his increasingly ripped physique that's making him an Internet star.

About two years ago, Durbin discoveredBarStarzz, an international workout team that uses creative calisthenics to achieve lean, muscled physiques. He saw their videos on YouTube and started working out to them on his own, posting photos and video of his progress on his Instagram account using the handle rockhardpapaw.

BarStarzz noticed and interviewed him. The video of Durbin, who is flexing rock-hard, defined muscles while doing challenging one-armed push-ups, chin-ups, pull-ups and flagpole holds - in which one grasps a vertical object with both hands and pulls the body until it's horizontal and parallel to the ground - has been viewed more than 769,000 times since it was posted in October.

Durbin was stunned by the reaction.

"It's just absolutely unbelievable," he told ABCNews.com. "You know, it's just unreal. I can't believe it."

Viewers of the video expressed deep admiration for Durbin.

"I have no fear of getting older, I have a fear of getting lazy," wrote one viewer. "People retire and get lazy, which only helps to makes things get (worse) as we age. We always tell kids to exercise and go out and play, but older people should too. This man is proof that taking care of ourselves is key to having a happy older life. "

Many others simply wrote: "Respect."

Durbin's enviable body doesn't come without deep commitment.

His diet has been radically transformed.

"That was the hardest part for me," he said. "I was a two plate person every meal, and right now I'm basically … well, I eat real clean."

He eats five or six small meals a day, and has eliminated fried foods from his diet.

And then there's the training, which he describes as rigorous.

Every morning right after he wakes up, he does about a mile on his elliptical ski glider, followed by 1,200 to 1,800 repetitions of abdominal exercises.

Then it's off to the gym, where he spends three hours doing CrossFit, weight training and skills training.

At night, he repeats his ski glider workout and abdominal exercises before he goes to bed. And he visits the gym several evenings per week for kettlebell, yoga and kickboxing classes.

Durbin says he feels better than he did when he graduated from high school. Back then, he drank and smoked. After a cancer scare, he quit his three-pack-a-day cigarette habit in 2004, and he hasn't touched a drop of alcohol in 20 years.

Remaining healthy is a strong motivator for him, and he relishes his intense workouts.

"I just go bonkers if I can't get to the gym or something," he said. "My gym, I think it's closed (on Thanksgiving) so I'm going to have a fit."

Some may think his workout regimen tough, but he plans to intensify it.

"Frankly, I'd like to get a little bit more cut," he said. "I've got an eight pack, but I'd still like to get a little bit of the skin gone down there, you know, around my lower stomach."

He wants to spread the message about the importance of exercise.

"I'm 64 and I'm doing it. I'm living the dream right now," he said. "I'd like to see more people, especially over 50, get out and do it. Exercise. Do something. They could feel so much better."

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Thanksgiving: Executive Chef Jeff Ansorge gives it all up to become the full time cook at the Salvation Army soup kitchen....

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Jeff Ansorge once commanded a staff of 17 and made around $80,000 a year as executive chef at a posh downtown Minneapolis restaurant where a 24-ounce dry aged Porterhouse steak goes for $48. But he gave it all up to become the head cook of a Salvation Army soup kitchen, where the meals are free.

Now he brings his culinary skills to bear making salmon, ribs and stews for the poor and homeless who come to The Salvation Army Eastside Corps Community Center in St. Paul. For the Thanksgiving meal that's being served Wednesday, Ansorge planned a traditional feast of turkey with stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, cranberry sauce and rolls, served on tables covered with white tablecloths.

"It is not your old-fashioned soup kitchen where you get a bowl of soup and a piece of bread and (are) sent on your way. He makes phenomenal meals that you would pay quite a bit of money to go to a restaurant and have," Salvation Army Capt. John Joyner said of Ansorge, who left The Capital Grille to run the soup kitchen.

The clients agree.

"This is outstanding. On a scale of 1 to 10, I give him an 8-and-a-half, yep," Donnie Richardson, 55, a homeless man from St. Paul, said over a meal of chicken thighs, rice and mixed vegetables in the center's white-walled gymnasium.

Ansorge, 40, says a spiritual awakening led him to his new job at the soup kitchen in October 2012, making just one-third of his previous salary.

"I went through a divorce. I was suffering from major depression for four years. And my priorities were all wrong," Ansorge recalled while standing near the center's pantry shelves. "I wanted the high-paying job. I wanted the big house. I wanted the cars. I wanted all that. And ultimately, none of that satisfied me."

Ansorge started cooking when he was 16 at a mom-and-pop restaurant. He went to school in Rhode Island, earning degrees in culinary arts and food service management before joining The Capital Grille, where he spent 12 years.

Now Ansorge is lucky to get as many as three volunteers to help him in the soup kitchen. On a recent Thursday, Ansorge — a trim man with short gray hair — set up the tables, seasoned, seared and baked the chicken thighs, dished up meals and wiped down the tables afterward. Instead of a traditional white chef's hat and uniform, he wears a dark blue T-shirt with the words "SHIELD CREW" in white with the red Salvation Army insignia, and blue jeans.

Raised Catholic, Ansorge — a former altar boy — said he drifted away from his faith in his 20s and 30s. Despite his prominent position at the restaurant, Ansorge said he was spiraling downward.

"My priorities were backwards. I had a big mortgage, I had car payments, I had credit card debts," Ansorge said. "And now I have none of that."

He sent about 10 applications to mainly Christian nonprofits, hoping to make a change. He chose The Salvation Army because "it's a nonprofit that works with people that need help."

Joyner said The Salvation Army initially felt Ansorge was overqualified. But none of the other candidates seemed a good fit.

"His credentials are unbelievable. He could easily be making two, three times what he makes working for us. But he told us that he wanted to give back and he really wanted to do this," Joyner said.

Susan Dunlop, chef and co-owner of Joan's In The Park restaurant in St. Paul, worked with Ansorge for nearly three years at The Capital Grille. She says she's not surprised by his decision.

"That's his true passion. He wanted to do something where he was giving back to the community," Dunlop said. "It's who he is. He needs to do that to be happy."

Ansorge didn't just bring cooking skills. Joyner said Ansorge's shopping skills save the organization money.

Ansorge said he looks for bargains on food nearing its expiration date that grocery stores don't want to sell but has been frozen and is salvageable. The Salvation Army also has a partnership with the Second Harvest Heartland food bank that allows it to get 40-pound cases of mixed poultry for $5, he said.

Before Ansorge came to the soup kitchen, The Salvation Army spent $28,000 on its lunch program at the East Side center. In Ansorge's first year there, he spent $13,000 on the lunch program. The center serves from 80 to 140 people each day at its Monday through Friday noon meal.

Ansorge also tries to bring nutritional value to whatever meal he serves. For some, it may be their only meal of the day.

He's eliminated desserts and cut back on the fat and sugars in meals.

"I don't want to feed them anything that I wouldn't eat," he said. "I try to feed them something that I would feed to my own family."

The Hill Family's Happy Thanksgiving Flash Mob...

The Hill family is doing Thanksgiving the right way.

Their Turkey Day festivities include a perfectly choreographed flash mob to Journey's "Don't Stop Believing." The family first shared this awesome video (above) on YouTube in 2010, but we're going to watch it every Thanksgiving if that's alright.
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Jimmy Fallon cheers up the kids at St. Jude's Hospital in New York...

In the knowledge that laughter is the best medicine, late night talk show host Jimmy Fallon spent a heartwarming day with some patients at the St. Jude Children's hospital in New York.

He donned a chicken costume, sang songs and played a game of Russian Roulette with a dozen eggs, two of them raw.

Today's Good Newsz Quote of the Day...

Katy Perry and Jodi DiPiazza, who has autism, bring down the house at the "Night of Too Many Stars"

Jodi DiPiazza was lucky enough to get into one of the few schools available to help children with autism to reach their potential.

Loud temper tantrums often flared up during those pre-kindergarten years, but during many hours of therapy, Jodi found a talent that truly grounded her -- music.

"We were afraid she would never speak. Never dreaming she would sing, or even be able to understand," said her father in the video below. "I've taken off the idea that there is some limit on her, as she continually proves that that's not true."

During the October fundraising gala for autism, Night Of Too Many Stars hosted by Jon Stewart, Jodi got the chance to play and sing with her favorite singer, Katy Perry.

Stewart introduced the pair saying, "People with Autism shouldn't be written off. They deserve, like everyone, the chance to reach their potential."

WATCH what happens when a child is given the chance to light up like a "Firework" in the video below.

The annual star-studded night of comedy and entertainment raises money for New York Collaborates for Autism(NYCA) to support and create autism programs, schools, and services all over the country. Programs covering everything from the intensive education kids with autism need at a young age to social training for adults who want to contribute in the workplace. They've even created a "Teach the Teachers" program that helps train more teachers to work in the public school systems, for the many kids with autism who can't get into the few quality schools that can help them.