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3 Lifestyle Changes Helped This Guy Lose Nearly 45Kg In A Year

3 Lifestyle Changes Helped This Guy Lose Nearly 45Kg In A Year

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This Guy Lost More Than 45Kgs In An Incredible 10-Month Transformation

This Guy Lost More Than 45Kgs In An Incredible 10-Month Transformation

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How This Guy Lost 45kg Without Setting Foot In A Gym

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Jamie Oliver Shares The Two Major Changes Behind His 12kg Weight Loss

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This Guy Fixed His Diet To Lose 80 Kilogram And Get Jacked

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His Doctor Said He Wouldn't Live To 50 - So He Lost 55kg

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Small Diet Changes And A Push-Pull-Legs Routine Helped This Guy Drop 23Kg

“I want to keep going and be the best version of myself that I can be” - by Jesse Hicks
  • 21 Jan 2020
Small Diet Changes And A Push-Pull-Legs Routine Helped This Guy Drop 23Kg
Huy Tran

“When I went off to college,” Huy Tran says, “I became an eating machine.” Up until then, he’d been an average kid, fairly active. He played sports and biked all over down. Yet when he went to college he hoovered up whatever food was available, in huge amounts. Reflecting on it now, the 33-year-old lab scientist and photographer says, “I believe that I had developed a binge eating disorder and was addicted to food.”

He gained 31kg in about a year and a half, and he carried that weight with him. At his heaviest he was 120kg and felt awful, with tight hamstrings and persistent back pain. He’d sweat if he had to walk too far. He couldn’t fit into his suit jacket for a friend’s wedding; he had trouble getting down the stairs for a night-time drink of water. “I was 31 years old and my body was falling apart,” he says. “Enough was enough.”

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He started by taking pictures of himself. Then he downloaded MyFitnessPal, setting a calorie goal that would drop one pound a week. He ditched the fast food and starting prepping meals of salads, roasted veggies, and lean protein. Sugary drinks went out the window, and he began using a food scale.

As a motivator, he signed up for a 5K race he vowed to complete in the spring, then enrolled in a couch-to-5K program. “The first few weeks were hell,” he says. “I could barely jog for 60 seconds at a time and my legs were constantly sore.” He fought through that, and when he could run a 5K he got a gym membership and started lifting, beginning with full-body and then going into a PPL (Push-Pull-Legs) split. He didn’t have a trainer, but his friends kept him motivated and accountable.

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After a year, he’d lost 16kg; now, two years later, he’s down 21kg but has also gained a lot of muscle. “I don't think that I have ever been this fit in my entire life,” he says. He can lift nearly twice his bodyweight in most lifts, and his 5K time is under 27 minutes. He feels more confident in himself, and in control of his body. He’s much more disciplined; his mental toughness has increased. “I get comments from people nearly every week saying something about how different and good I look or how they are so proud of me,” he says. He thinks he might lose another 7-9kg. “I want to keep going and be the best version of myself that I can be.”

“Losing weight and becoming healthy has to become a lifestyle and not a fad if you want to be successful and have it stick,” he says. Fad and crash diets can feel like punishment, and are hard to stick to. Instead, he says, find exercise you enjoy and a sensible diet. “Eat healthier and move more,” he says. “It goes a long way.”

This article originally appeared on Men's Health

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Jesse Hicks
Jesse Hicks
Jesse Hicks is a Detroit-based writer and former features editor at The Verge who specialises in longform stories about science, health, and technology. He has written for Men’s Health, VICE, Harper’s, and many other publications.

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