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How To Go From A Pigging Pig To A Muscular Menace

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  My previous blog post sounded preachy. I said a lot of stuff without showing my own results. Today, I'll prove my credentials by presenting what I have achieved throughout the six years of my fitness journey.  2016 was the year when I began taking my health a bit seriously. Back then, I was focused only on reducing weight and didn't care about my overall health or well-being. However, what caused me to make up my mind to lose weight was a scary experience I had one night. I had a dream where I couldn't breathe, no matter how hard I tried. It felt like I would die. The fear of dying woke me up, gasping for air. I immediately realised that my air passage was getting blocked somehow when I was asleep. Though I didn't know what I was experiencing was called sleep apnea, I knew I was experiencing this likely because I was obese. This was evident to me because I was pretty athletic when I was a kid and never had such an incident happen. 12-year-old me I only started getting

How To Overcome The Mental Struggle Of Losing Fat

Before I began drafting this article, I was thinking hard about what I should write since this would be the very first article on my fitness blog. There are already plenty of guides, articles, and videos on losing fat, so I decided to write about something rarely discussed in the fitness community - the mental struggle to lose fat. When I started out on my fat loss journey, it was a mental struggle every day. However, don't let that turn you off because once you get used to it, it isn't a drag. Trying to lose fat takes a toll on your mind because you're changing your eating habits and restricting the foods you love to consume. Ironically, your own body starts fighting against you in your effort to improve its health. It's a fight where you are your enemy. Sometimes it feels hopeless, and you want to give up when you don't see the expected results. Well, you don't have to worry if you feel this way because I'm here to give you some helpful tidbits. Yeah, you