sirant
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Hi everyone,
I am Sirant. I live and teach in China and life over here is very good. I travel, have a family, have a good job and pretty much just enjoy life. But being a big guy all my life, I always enjoyed it too much. At my heaviest I was around 350, size 54 jeans. I smartened up and over a few years lost 100 pounds. Then I went into professional wrestling and had a great time for awhile. At about 250 pounds and 34 years old I decided to explore the world and come to China. Met my wife here and started a life. But everything is soooo cheap here and I had recently ballooned up to 297 pounds and felt very uncomfortable and suffered very low energy. A few months ago I bought a scale and realized that it wasn't just my clothes shrinking, I was getting too big again. As you can see below.
(as much as I hate to say it, I am sucking IN my gut...)
That was a few months ago after a workout. Somwhere around 295 pounds....
But I started working my way up slowly, not losing much weight, but getting stronger and stronger. At the beginning of Decemeber I decided to really step it up. In the past 2 months I have dropped from 297 to the 270 you see below. I walk 30 minutes on my 1 hour lunch break at work, I walk 6km home from work every day, I go to the gym 2X a week and do various core, aerobic and yoga like exercises 6 times a week. I also eat 5-6 times a day so I never feel like binging and keep my metabolism up. So far it has been working. I am stronger, more confident and happier than any time in my past life. I do an average of 100 pushups a day in the office when I am bored. I look for ways to walk to where I want to go rather than bus or cab. And it's working. Its really working. I am currently 1 pound away from the 1/2 way mark to my goal weight. It is 10 pounds below when I was wrestling, but I suspect this time I will look 500X better.
As a reward I took myself to Thailand a couple weeks ago. I love this picture. To me I don't think I look much thinner, but I sure look happier. I hope you are all finding your happiness too!
Me in Thailand a couple weeks ago About 270...
Can you see the difference? I can't really yet, but I sure feel it.
If you are interested, I keep a daily blog called of what I am doing. It's hard work, but I do it because I enjoy it, not because I feel obligated to exercise to "get skinny".
sirant
I am Sirant. I live and teach in China and life over here is very good. I travel, have a family, have a good job and pretty much just enjoy life. But being a big guy all my life, I always enjoyed it too much. At my heaviest I was around 350, size 54 jeans. I smartened up and over a few years lost 100 pounds. Then I went into professional wrestling and had a great time for awhile. At about 250 pounds and 34 years old I decided to explore the world and come to China. Met my wife here and started a life. But everything is soooo cheap here and I had recently ballooned up to 297 pounds and felt very uncomfortable and suffered very low energy. A few months ago I bought a scale and realized that it wasn't just my clothes shrinking, I was getting too big again. As you can see below.
(as much as I hate to say it, I am sucking IN my gut...)
That was a few months ago after a workout. Somwhere around 295 pounds....
But I started working my way up slowly, not losing much weight, but getting stronger and stronger. At the beginning of Decemeber I decided to really step it up. In the past 2 months I have dropped from 297 to the 270 you see below. I walk 30 minutes on my 1 hour lunch break at work, I walk 6km home from work every day, I go to the gym 2X a week and do various core, aerobic and yoga like exercises 6 times a week. I also eat 5-6 times a day so I never feel like binging and keep my metabolism up. So far it has been working. I am stronger, more confident and happier than any time in my past life. I do an average of 100 pushups a day in the office when I am bored. I look for ways to walk to where I want to go rather than bus or cab. And it's working. Its really working. I am currently 1 pound away from the 1/2 way mark to my goal weight. It is 10 pounds below when I was wrestling, but I suspect this time I will look 500X better.
As a reward I took myself to Thailand a couple weeks ago. I love this picture. To me I don't think I look much thinner, but I sure look happier. I hope you are all finding your happiness too!
Me in Thailand a couple weeks ago About 270...
Can you see the difference? I can't really yet, but I sure feel it.
If you are interested, I keep a daily blog called of what I am doing. It's hard work, but I do it because I enjoy it, not because I feel obligated to exercise to "get skinny".
sirant
