Ronnie Brower didn’t want to die.

But at 675 pounds, a one-way ticket to the morgue looked likely.

His desperation launched a four-year journey of faith, discovery and love.

But in looking to lose the weight, he also gained a secret admirer at the gym. Andrea Masella was also waging a heroic battle of the bulge, and soon the pair hit it off.

On Saturday, the couple will be married — 600 lost pounds later.

“I was just really inspired by him and I thought he was super cute,” Masella, 24, said. “We started talking at the gym and I hate to sound cliche, but it was love at first sight.”

And their wedding gift to each other is a commitment from their minds, bodies and souls to maintain that healthy lifestyle — and help others who are struggling.

“Both of us had used food as a coping mechanism; I would just eat my feelings,” Masella said. “We’ve gone through a lot of counselling to come to terms with that and change.”

But Brower, 32, recalls the dark days when it appeared that his life was ebbing away. Status quo meant death.

Leaving his parents’ house took a staggering effort.

“I was depressed, addicted to pills and alcohol, eating 10 double cheeseburgers or two large pizzas at a time,” Brower said. “My turning point was my doctor told me if I kept on like this, I’d be dead before I was 30. I was 28.”

He turned to personal trainer Nick Murphy, who called the couple “a match made in heaven, a storybook movie.” Murphy is Brower’s best man.

Gone were the drugs and booze, in was a low-carb diet and three-hour daily workouts.

In a little over three months, Brower had ditched 100 pounds.

“My job 24 hours a day was to get healthy and save my life,” he said.

Two years later, he’d lost most of the weight. That’s when he met Masella, a spunky hairdresser. She stood 5-foot-4 and weighed 250 pounds. A first date was ping pong and basketball.

There was something in the pretty brunette that captured Brower’s heart.

“We laugh all the time,” he said, adding she was beside him over four surgeries to remove 30 pounds of excess skin. “It was really intense.”

“People come to me all the time, asking for weight-loss advice,” Brower said. “I just tell them there’s hope out there. If you want it bad enough and put your mind to it, anybody can do it.”