Not where I was, not yet where I’m going.
Just wanted to share this progress with a community that I respect. The left is me at 144kg, the right is me today at 123.
From about about age 10 to my early 20s I was morbidly obese, I don’t know what but around 10 something switched on in my brain that just said “start eating” and by my late teens I was resigned to short, food filled life that would end around 40. I think part of me deep down resents both my parents for letting me eat to the degree I did, I was 130kg before I left high school.
In my 20s, I decided enough was enough and started eating right and did tons of cardio at the gym but zero weight training, dropped down to just under 100kg and spent a few years there. Late 20s I went through a bad relationship and depression, and ballooned back up over a few years to over 150kg.
As I approached my 39th birthday in 2022, now in a healthy relationship and with a 4 year old son and a daughter on the way I decided dying at 40 was not what I wanted. I went to see an exercise physiologist and one of the things she gave me to do in the gym was kettlebell swings, and boy did I enjoy them.
I’m taking a slow and steady approach to reaching my goals, and without surgery my body will always carry the reminders of my years of obesity, but to see the progress I have here is absolutely vindicating.
I do the ABC 3 times a week, 100 swings every other day and have just started getting into barbell deadlifting twice a week, but kettlebells were an absolute key piece of making weight training feel accessible to be me, and this forum has been a wellspring of ideas and motivation.
Just wanted to share this progress with a community that I respect. The left is me at 144kg, the right is me today at 123.
From about about age 10 to my early 20s I was morbidly obese, I don’t know what but around 10 something switched on in my brain that just said “start eating” and by my late teens I was resigned to short, food filled life that would end around 40. I think part of me deep down resents both my parents for letting me eat to the degree I did, I was 130kg before I left high school.
In my 20s, I decided enough was enough and started eating right and did tons of cardio at the gym but zero weight training, dropped down to just under 100kg and spent a few years there. Late 20s I went through a bad relationship and depression, and ballooned back up over a few years to over 150kg.
As I approached my 39th birthday in 2022, now in a healthy relationship and with a 4 year old son and a daughter on the way I decided dying at 40 was not what I wanted. I went to see an exercise physiologist and one of the things she gave me to do in the gym was kettlebell swings, and boy did I enjoy them.
I’m taking a slow and steady approach to reaching my goals, and without surgery my body will always carry the reminders of my years of obesity, but to see the progress I have here is absolutely vindicating.
I do the ABC 3 times a week, 100 swings every other day and have just started getting into barbell deadlifting twice a week, but kettlebells were an absolute key piece of making weight training feel accessible to be me, and this forum has been a wellspring of ideas and motivation.