Posted on 10/18/2011 4:01:28 PM PDT by Maceman
Normally, I share weight loss success stories - WooHoos!, as they’re known at FatFighterTV. But today, I want to tell you about the opposite – a fit guy who is deliberately making himself fat.
Since May, Drew Manning has gained about 70 pounds on purpose. And he’s not done yet.
Drew is a personal trainer and has always been the “fit guy.” He’s now on a journey he calls Fit 2 Fat 2 Fit where he spends six months (he has about 4 weeks left) eating unhealthy food and not exercising, then he will take six more months to get fit again. Why? To experience for himself what it’s like to be overweight, how tough it is to lose weight, and ultimately show others how to get fit. But this is sooo extreme! And I hate that Drew is deliberately making himself unhealthy. I asked him all about it…
FatFighterTV: As someone who has always been fit, how can you stand doing this to yourself?
Drew Manning: It’s been very tough physically, mentally and emotionally to let myself go like this. The first couple of months were the hardest. I felt like I was going through withdrawals, just like any other addiction. I was jealous seeing people running, going to the gym, and being in shape.
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Guys is a damned idiot.
Fit Fat Fit fat, it’ hard on the heart and just plain stupid.
My brother was fat and then thin and fat again then fin. last time he had a heart attack and died. Ging up and down is bad for you.
I couldn’t gain 70lbs if I tried.
I think healthy is somewhere between those pictures.
Yeah you could. Quit your job and start smoking pot.
Looks like Ben Stiller in DODGEBALL.
Yeah you could. Quit your job and start smoking pot.
I wouldn’t want the result, but I can tell you the process:
Pizza, beer, and naps!
(If you want to look like Homer Simpson, and he does, you need to live like Homer Simpson).
I actually find this fascinating.
I would never do it, but perhaps it can be motivator for someone struggling with their weight and eating.
My stomach will only hold a certain amount of food. Overeating is physically painful for me. Excess calories give me diarrhea. Sugary stuff doesn’t appeal to me, except for Almond Joy candy bars.
I’m the guy on the left (LOL).
I can eat pretty much anything I want without gaining weight.
He’s going to learn a big lesson - which is that it’s MUCH, MUCH, easier to gain the weight back, once it has been on you. If he thinks for a minute that he will EVER be able to go back to his eating lifestyle after this stunt, and not blimp out, he is sadly mistaken.
And no exercise has little effect on weight loss...80%, at least, is simply the amount of calories consumed and whether your body can find a place for them - and he now has lots and lots of places.
This man is crazy. I’m a personal fitness trainer, too, and I think this guy’s certification should be pulled!!! If he actually even has one.
This man is crazy. I’m a personal fitness trainer, too, and I think this guy’s certification should be pulled!!! If he actually even has one.
He may also learn a lesson about stretch marks, suborn fat that is hard to get rid of and excess skin. Every extra pound he gains now puts him one step closer to a tummy tuck if he wants to have six pack abs again.
Calories consumed vs calories burned, and the latter is where exercise is a big factor. But I agree, once the body blubs out the tendency for it to blub out again is much greater.
“Calories consumed vs calories burned, and the latter is where exercise is a big factor. “
Yea, burning calories does help (of course). But it’s very difficult to burn calories at anything but a small fraction of what you burn just from metabolism. So if you run 10 miles a day, you will definitely burn significantly more calories. But if you walk 3 miles, not nearly as much. That’s why a lot of people that work very hard are also way overweight.
Agreed. You really have to do a LOT of exercise to make a dent, the three 20 minute sessions recommended are nearly useless for weight loss, but they do make you feel better. One hour per day, minimum, of low to high level aerobics is more like it for weight loss.
The big problem will be the fat cells yelling “feed me” “feed me” (figuratively speaking, of course). It makes you do that, by secreting several hormones.
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