00:00 So at my heaviest I hit the scales at about 330 pounds. I used to consume well
00:05 over 10,000 calories a day, three pizzas, three bottles of coke, three packs of
00:11 Magnum ice cream. I had absolutely no confidence. I literally just sat home and
00:15 played video games all day and thought I was gonna be alone for the rest of my
00:17 life. Most attractive girl at school, like I've had a crush on her. I said hey do
00:21 you want to be my former date? She started laughing and something just
00:25 changed inside me and I was like you know what this - I need to make a
00:28 difference. It's quite an epic journey that I've been on and I'm so glad it
00:35 happened.
00:37 Growing up my weight and size was getting bigger and bigger. Food was an
00:48 addiction. Every time I'd be stressed out I would just eat and eat and eat and
00:52 that's how the weight started packing on. When I ate I didn't really think about
00:55 the dramas and stresses that I was going through. I was just thinking about that
00:59 food that I was putting into my mouth. I was too scared to go outside because I
01:03 was so worried about the way people were gonna look at me and judge me.
01:07 I asked the most attractive girl out in school, like I've had a crush on her
01:12 pretty much through my whole senior year. I said hey do you want to be my
01:15 formal date? She said yes and I was so blown away. I really tried to make
01:19 myself look like a million dollars. It came to the formal date okay and I
01:23 knocked on her door. She opened it I said oh hey look I'm here to pick you up.
01:27 She started laughing and then she said to me that I was too fat to fit through
01:32 the door and in that moment I realized it was just a big joke and it was set up
01:37 on me.
01:40 So what was your wake-up call? I woke up one night and I was having heart
01:46 palpitations. I ended up getting rushed to hospital. The doctor pretty much just
01:51 explained to me like I had an irregular heartbeat at the time because I
01:54 was putting obviously so much pressure on my body and I was on the verge of
01:59 falling into type 2 diabetes. The doctor sat me down he said to me Anthony like
02:05 what do you want? And I said look man like you know I want to have a family
02:08 one day like I would love to you know have opportunities out there and you
02:12 know put myself out there in the world. And he told me if I stay like this it's
02:15 really never gonna happen. I got home that night I looked in front of the
02:19 mirror for the first time in years and something just changed inside me and I
02:24 was like you know what this - I need to make a difference and that was the
02:28 turning point to the transformation of my life.
02:33 You gonna work? Come on buddy. That one works. I started researching about
02:42 healthy nutrition, how to slowly transition off having such an unhealthy
02:46 and high sugar addiction to healthy foods. Lots of salad, lots of greens, lots
02:50 of high protein foods. I started going for walks.
02:56 Sup brother, how are you man? Good to see you brother. Long time no see man. Ready for this?
03:02 Yeah let's do it. And then one day I walked past a gym. I walked in there and
03:09 I was speaking to the club manager. He said to me look man if you put in some
03:15 hard effort and you come to the gym every single day, I'll give you a free
03:19 gym membership and that's how that part of my life started. So at my heaviest I
03:24 hit the scales at about 330 pounds. Currently I weigh 97.8 kilos roughly.
03:33 He's not only lost all the weight but he's just very confident you know and
03:40 I think he's just found his element now.
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03:48 My transformation has changed me mentally. Like now I'm confident I'm
03:53 willing to go out there. Losing weight has affected my dating life massively. I feel
04:07 good in myself to be able to go out there and experience the dating scene so
04:12 it's really made a huge difference. Someone who wants to lose weight like me
04:17 you cannot do it for anybody else because if you do it for other people
04:20 you're not going to go anywhere. You need to do it for yourself and if you can do
04:25 it for yourself I promise you, you can change your life.
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