For most of my school life I was overweight, bullied to start with but as the trends of modern life went on through the school years it was obvious this country (England) was getting bigger and I was noticing more and more people in high school/college who were overweight just like me. In a way this gave me a false sense of security knowing that I was not the only one. Although I loved sport and have competed in a number of different highly demanding sports I still loved the food and the comfort of being able to eat what I wanted when i wanted. At the age of 25 I was mentally a bit of a mess and almost quit my job, I overthought and worried about the most basic things and knew something had to change. I stayed in my job and decided the diet had to change, the intake of sugar, processed foods and sat fats were not doing my body or mind any good (energy drinks were mentally killing me!). So I had to kick these habits and change before it caught up with me and did anymore serious damage. Since 1st March 2015 I have lost a total of 147lb. I am still looking to lose body fat while gaining lean muscle mass along the way with my workout plans being largely weight based now as appose to cardio.

As mentally above I do love sport and always have no matter what body I carried around. It has been more competition based sport that I have participated in but now I like the idea of going to the gym after work or on the morning of a day off knowing that when I am in there I can do (within reason of course!) what I want, when I want and with the correct form i can produce results that give me the confidence to be seen out in public where in the past I used to shy away from going out with friends. Working out is my time, my freedom and my stress release from a long day at work or any other issue on my mind, when I am in that gym...nothing else matters and nothing else is thought about!