Inspirational fat loss story that will make your cry from Paul Wilson Personal Training in Walsall
Hi there,
I have just opened up am email, and I HAVE to share it with you!!!
It comes from one of my personal training clients in Walsall where I am known for weight loss/fat loss and it share with you the troubles that many people out there, certainly in the West Midlands, have to struggle with day in day out. I might get criticised sometimes that I ‘don’t know what it’s like to be fat’ but the truth is, I help people day in day out never to have to feel like what it’s like to be fat, obese, overweight – however you want to sugar coat it (but thats probably not a good idea because you’ll probably eat that too!) – but I DO know what it’s like because I am just as passionate if not more to get individuals in Walsall, Birmingham, Cannock, Sutton Coldfield, Lichfield and the rest of the West Midlands into the best shape of their lives.
Anyway, if you think I am straight to the point. Check out what my client had to say with the STRAIGHT TALKING TRUTH right here…
Let me introduce you to Sandra’s story… (Over too Sandra)
Hi Paul
Sorry for the essay wanted to share with you, you might find it interesting (maybe) in understanding how much weight loss / gain has on peoples choices for diet clubs etc
Been thinking about the obesity thing recently and this has spurred me to write this email, being hugely overweight myself and hating what I’ve done to myself everyday and thought I’d give you an insight to my experiences and you might see so many things you already know from what others have said also.
I’ve been overweight since I was a child to be honest – alot initially was due to my parents not having the education about portion sizes or a good balanced diet which started the obesity issues off. Back when I was about 4 I remember a doctor making me walk up and down a room holding my skirt high enough to see my thighs and then pointing out I was overweight because my thighs were wobbly (eventhough I was 4 I was made to feel like I had done something wrong and never forgot how that felt) This started a battle with food I remember being told by my mum that at this point I would eat nothing but dry ryvita (guess I must have seen something on tv don’t know how I knew about ryvita) and made myself really poorly but I became skinny…… and scared my parents half to death and they forced me to eat other foods again (how the hell do 4 year olds process this kind of information) I’d actually forgotten about this until I started writing this to you funny how memories come back eh!!
As I got older I was always overweight not massively throughout my teens I was active with army cadets and netball and numerous other activities I was involved in but then when I was about 17 I found diet clubs… I think the first one I went to was Jenny Winspur (something like that anyway) I lost some weight very happy but the whole focus of the diet was how to not eat the good things to save up for the bad things. They offer you a balanced diet but then the group leader always seemed to focus on cheats or treats or whatever they called them whether this be chocolate or alcohol or cakes you got the message here I’m sure.
I came off this diet and very quickly although I wasn’t overeating I put on masses of weight and then weighed more than I did before I started the diet and the only logic to this I could find was I wasn’t FOLLOWING THEIR DIET. So…. along comes the next diet club this time I went Rosemary Conley this was a diet that had carbs days and protein days from what I remember with a little workout once a week nothing strenuous but was included in the meetings that were held. This diet I lost very little weight making me disheartened and again putting on more weight.
I had to see a doctor at a medical center between diet number 2 and the start of diet number 3 this doctor was morbidly obese struggling to sit in the chair he was in and told me I was overweight and to go on a crash diet this shocked me as I thought crash dieting was bad but hey a doctor told me so I pretty much gave up eating for a while becoming light headed weak lifeless so I pulled myself together and decided to try dieting with a club again. (How the hell can a health professional be so overweight himself and give such bad advice but these people exist)
Along came diet club number 3 Weight Watchers well this sounded great I could eat and drink all the crap in the world as long as I counted points. This diet I found hard to meet my daily points allowance due to my weight (the more you weigh the more points you have to eat seems a bit counterproductive really looking back) so I found I was topping up my points on crap (chocolate was a good one for the high points or anything with high fat contents I found) I lost a couple of stone over about 6 months but felt terrible all the time so again I stopped the diet club. I put on yet even more weight and decided that diet clubs were not going to be a part of my life any longer due to the yo-yoing I was experiencing and for every weight loss I achieved massive weight gain.
When I came to you I was still very doubtful about what I might achieve but even though I have not lost HUGE amounts of weight the weight that has come off is not going back on because I am not encouraged to eat rubbish and changing my lifestyle which benefits my whole family we are more active I do my workouts 5 times a week absolutely love them. I can’t wait to get back to your camps the whole atmosphere of being with others striving for the same healthy lifestyle is just so motivational and although hard work great fun. I’ve had times when I’ve wanted to give up (all I can say is phosphate sprints ) But after completing them I really feel I’ve achieved something and would never have trained to that level before despite having had personal trainers in the past they’d never shown me how much I could push my body. Bootcamp was the hardest thing I’d done as I had no support from family outside of my home getting comments like (how much longer you putting yourself through it?) This made me stronger because I realised they didn’t care about me they would stick by me if they did and made me clean up my immediate surroundings cutting away the things that held me back from achieving what I want from life this can be hard to do but so rewarding when its done.
Now the reason I wanted to share this with you is to (I’m guessing) share with you what you already know about these crappy diet clubs I’ve experienced 3 and had the same outcome from all 3. It saddens me that people aren’t being encouraged to eat properly and be active and healthy in their everyday lives. I had a hellish time with my weight and all my own fault not eating regularly or too late at night not sleeping my lifestyle has been horrendous and I would go to the pub with friends drinking alcohol 3-4 times a week. I feel so positive now that my life is changing and very much for the better and so wish other people would push themselves to do the same as the feeling of being alive is much better than the depressed state that eating crap and sitting doing f*** all makes you feel.
I would put money on the fact that other people have experienced this issue with diet clubs. I know I’m overweight I’d never blame anyone else I know I’m fat due to myself and my lifestyle choices I hate when people try to put the blame on everything else we open our mouths we choose what food we put in it we choose when to be active or in many cases not be active, maybe I sound harsh here but if we all chose to do nothing then this disease will spread to every area of the UK how sad will that be??
Hope I’ve not bored you… You will be banning me from Bootcamp after this I bet!!
Catch you soon
San
Sandra I am so PROUD of you! This email you sent me today will and has already inspired the many readers reading it! I love your truth, honestly and straight talking. It’s emails like this that will change the current state we are in. Thank YOU.
Now for those of you who already now, I, Paul Wilson, personal trainer to the people of Walsall, will be hosting a Walsall Fun Run in the next few months and the whole event, created by you, the people, will be raising awareness for my mission, to remove the title of the West Midlands having the highest obesity in Europe. This is a community project, and as soon as you tell me you want to do it (5k Fun Run/Event Day) I will add you to the group where you can be heard and show your support. Watch this video first…
Now you’ve watched the video… Request to join this group> Click here to join the Walsall Fun Run Group
Hope to have you guys on board,
Paul Wilson



