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I was born 14 weeks premature. My family literally spent every day by my incubator, worried about whether I’d make it.

I weighed less than a packet of sugar.

My parents were so desperate for me to grow they fed me so much food. From what I’ve been told I use to spit everything out except the chicken based baby food ( Something that has stuck with me up until this day; well not the baby food, but my taste for chicken)

See this is where it all began, the journey to me becoming obese as a child. The journey to me becoming Michelin man.

I don’t put the blame on my parents at all for the shape I was in. It was me eating two lunches, two dinners of high calorie dense food. Eating multiple pack of crisps. Drinking the full fat soft drinks.

I use to eat breakfast at home, and when walking to school sometimes buy a sausage sandwich en-route. You can easily see how I became in this shape right?

I perhaps saw food as comfort; as I wasn’t the most popular at school. A form of escapism. The instant gratification we all crave, especially with social media.

The instant gratification, to be honest I’d probably get if any of you are kind enough to ‘like’ or share this post.

Over the years this all built up into me becoming extremely obese. I used to see people ‘in shape’ and think ‘I’ll never be able to achieve that, what’s the point in trying’. That attitude, made me eat even further into an unhealthy state.

Both my parents work, one summer holiday when at my grandparents’ house, I was bored trying to find something to do.

He had a treadmill in his conservatory and I decided to kill time by running on it for a little bit.

I did 10 mins and was panting. Sweating buckets. The next day, the same situation, bored, so went on another run. I developed a routine, thinking to myself, ‘you know what, I’ve done this 3 days in a row, why not try do it for the whole week’.

I worked myself up to 30mins. My mum suggested I try a diet she came across. It was the Tesco diet. I remember being on 1500 calories, aged 14/15.

I ran approximately everyday on that treadmill for about 18 months; excluding Christmas/New year.

The weight dropped off. I was getting leaner. Everything is amazing right?

WRONG.

I was developing a really bad eating habit, 1800 calories isn’t sustainable for that length of time, doing that amount of exercise.

Looking back on it now I did not realise how tunnel vision I had become. ‘Fat’ was the enemy, anything ‘fried’ was a red flag.

I remember my brother bought me a top once, slim fit, thinking it’d be too small. He started chuckling to himself, impressed at how much I list but saying ‘don’t lose anymore weight’.

‘Don’t lose anymore weight?’ But that’s the mindset I’ve been in for the past 18/24 months. Thinking ‘I need to lose weight’

My family became worried about how thin I was getting!

This mindset stayed with me all the way up until first year of university. A fair few of those in my uni halls went to the gym

I started to take it seriously, reading the latest scientific research and blogs. Listening to podcasts and came across a macro- based diet.

I changed my physique to what it resembles today in the picture above. It wasn’t easy at all, I had some dark challenging times. When you see everyone else eat all the pizza, and tasty treats when you can’t at that point in time; was very difficult.

I’ve consequently developed a passion through this journey, undertaking my PT exams, wanting to help others like me, who right now probably think they can’t change their physique. I do this all, by still working in a busy corporate Investment Banking environment, showing that you can still reach your goal, regardless of the situation.

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