Mayor Rob Ford’s weight-loss challenge started in January, 2012. His job as chief magistrate effectively ended Monday.

In between, he said “Ridiculous” many times when asked about a crack-cocaine video or public drunkenness.

He called the Toronto Star “pathological liars.”

He won a conflict-of-interest lawsuit.

The day he turned aside in silence when the media asked, “Have you ever used crack cocaine?” That was after he said, “No, I do not use crack cocaine,” and before he said, “Yes, I have used crack cocaine.”

And in the shadows, out on the street, he partied and posed for pictures.

A three-minute montage compiled by award-winning Star visual journalist Randy Risling captures the last, most intense, few months to sum up a story that has consumed the city.