I got married at the end of 2019 and was in a satisfactory physical state. After getting back from my honeymoon, my wife and I decided to buy our first house together, and I couldn’t have been happier about it. Then, in the early 2020s, Covid arrived, and I began my full-time career working from home. While I was still on a mental high, I was enjoying myself a little bit too much, and as a consequence, not only did my exercise and fitness routine get pushed to the back burner, but so did my diet. This happened while I was still on a mental high. I was lacking any kind of discipline or regularity in my life, which led to me overeating, consuming an unhealthy amount of alcohol, and essentially stopping any physical activity.

When I was at my heaviest, I weighed 113 kilograms, which is equivalent to 249 pounds. I had lost all of my self-assurance, I was not feeling good about myself both mentally and physically, and I was beginning to grow worried about my general health and welfare as a result of things like higher blood pressure, increased stress, difficulties sleeping, and irritability. I had lost all of my self-confidence. I did not feel good about myself both intellectually and physically. I wasn’t happy, so I turned to artificial sources of happiness, like food and booze, in an attempt to feel better about myself.

My “lightbulb moment” came when I came upon a picture of myself taken at a wedding in late 2020. I was mortified by what I saw because I was unable to come to terms with the idea that I had allowed myself to deteriorate to such an embarrassing degree. I came to the conclusion that I needed to make a change, and I wanted to do it quickly, so I sought the assistance of experts to motivate me to get my act together. Late in the year 2020, I made contact with Ultimate Performance in Sydney with the purpose of beginning the year 2021 with a clean slate, a new frame of mind, and some significant objectives in order to get my life back on track.

My routine called for a total of four sessions each week: two with my personal trainer and two on my own. These sessions included a variety of high-intensity, full-body exercises, including resistance training and heavy weight lifting. In addition, I walked a minimum of 15,000 steps and a maximum of 20,000 steps every single day. The duration of my program was a total of twenty weeks, and my goal was to achieve a body fat percentage of ten percent.

My whole cognitive process as well as my attitude toward my nutrition underwent a full transformation the moment I began the program. This enabled me to assume more responsibility for what I was putting into my body and kept me truthful. After gaining a better grasp of macros, meal scheduling, and nutrition, I began to pay more attention to the foods that I was consuming.

Saskia, my personal trainer, has always shown faith in my abilities. She provided me with the drive, encouragement, and support I needed to accomplish my objectives, as well as the skills I needed to push myself to levels I didn’t believe I was capable of achieving. She was extremely generous with her knowledge of health and fitness, and she was always giving me advice on how to exercise properly, how to eat and understand nutrition, how to listen to my body, and how to be optimistic and confident in myself.

I was able to reach one of my primary objectives at the conclusion of the voyage, which was to have a body fat percentage of 10 percent. I dropped a total of 33 kilograms (73 pounds) in twenty weeks. It was a difficult slog, but in the end, everything paid off, and I couldn’t have been happier as a result. The visible improvements speak for themselves; nevertheless, I was more pleased with the intangible benefits, such as restoring my confidence, reducing my blood pressure, enhancing the quality of my sleep, and just having better moods that are more constant overall. Now I’m able to have a good night’s sleep and a cheerful morning wake-up!

To be successful in reaching your health and fitness objectives, it is not necessary for you to have prior experience in strength training or the use of weights. I believe that the most important factors are one’s thinking, level of dedication, and level of discipline; if one has all three of these qualities, in addition to a positive frame of mind, then the majority of the fight has already been won. The mental fight of keeping to a diet and routine is a continual one, but if you are able to reach little targets, it will be simpler to attain your overall long-term goals. The physical parts are challenging, but they are only temporary.