By working out and kicking his drinking habit, 31-year-old Mike
Waudby, a former morbidly obese man from Kingston upon Hull,
England, lost a staggering 18st – about 115kg, in just 18 months Excited
about his accomplishment and determined to maintain his new
physique Mike weighed 33st (209kg) has become a professional fitness
trainer.
Mike’s weight problems started in his young adulthood and by the time
he was 21, he weighted about 140kg. He worked various jobs including as
a car valet and security guard for a supermarket but as he kept putting
on weight, he soon found himself unable to fulfill his job duties. With
no employment prospects in sight, he barely left his room, eating
whatever his mom cooked for him and drinking alcohol he ordered online.
He says it was the booze that made him fat, as he used to drink a whole
bottle of whisky and 6 cans of beer every night.
Feeling lonely, he decided to go out one night but was disappointed
to discover how judgmental some people could be of his appearance. “I
used to go out but, one night, a girl came up to me and asked me to
leave the bar I was in. I asked why and she told me I was making her and
her friends feel sick,” he relates. This incident left him even more
bitter than before and drove him to an attempted suicide. “One night,
while listening to Guns N’ Roses, I thought to myself, “What kind of a
life is this?” he explains. Tired of being laughed at, he was prepared
to end it all. “I had terrible pains but I was too scared to go to the
gym and do anything about my weight, as people pointed and laughed at me
in the street,” he told reporters. After describing how he ingested two
bottles of whisky, eight cans of Stella and as many tablets as he could
find, Mike remembers waking up with no headache, no pains, just a
sickening feeling that he was still there and not dead.
This experience was the much-awaited wake-up call he needed in order
to take control of his life again. Mike stopped drinking altogether and
began working out on a cross-trainer that he had ordered online. “Every
session on the cross-trainer ended up with me taking my XXXXL dripping
wet T-shirt off and just looking down at my belly crying. But, each
time, I picked myself up and carried on,” Mike says. After working hard
for 18 months, training and staying away from alcohol, he was in the
best shape of his life. However, he still felt unsatisfied with his
looks because of the excessive skin leftover from losing so much weight.
Mike told the Daily Mail that “I felt just as disgusting as I did when I
weighed 33 stone. I needed to do something, and I ended up paying for
skin on my stomach and upper arms to be removed.” Now, he’s still
insecure about his thighs but he’s much happier and healthier.
His confidence regained, Mike – now called “Mr. Muscles” by his
friends, regularly posts pictures of his progress on his Facebook
profile and even has a girlfriend who “hates people who judge others
based on their appearance”, which apparently was the first thing that
attracted him to her. He also eats healthier and drinks only “a couple
of beers at the weekends.” Wanting to help others, Mike has become a
personal trainer and hopes to assist others struggling with the same
problems he had to deal with not so long ago.
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