- Professional chef Sam Hodgson from Yarm, North Yorkshire, has lost 5 stone
- The 28-year-old suffered cruel taunts about his weight over the years
- He eventually decided to overhaul his unhealthy diet and hit the gym
- Sam has since halved his body fat percentage and shed more than 5 stone
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An overweight chef who ballooned to 18 stone 6 lbs after gorging on food during shifts has shed half of his body fat after struggling to find clothes that fit him.
Sam Hodgson, 28, from Yarm, North Yorkshire suffered cruel taunts from bullies and was even labelled a ‘fat b*****d’ but has managed to drop almost 6 stone in less than two years after overhauling his diet and hitting the gym.
He told Femail how he was motivated to lose weight by constant jibes about his weight, and finally decided ‘enough was enough’.
‘I worked in a kitchen so with it being extremely easy to pick at food,’ Sam said. ‘I’d get called a “fat b*****d” nearly every time I put a piece of food in my mouth.’
Transformation: Sam, from North Yorkshire, suffered cruel taunts from bullies at his heaviest (left) but has managed to drop 5 stone after overhauling his diet and hitting the gym (right)
Recalling the moment he decided to switch up his unhealthy lifestyle, Sam, who now weighs 12 stone 10 lbs, said: ‘I decided to use these names I was being called as my motivation.’
As well as suffering a barrage of spiteful comments over the years, Sam’s size also affected his day-to-day life and made it impossible to purchase the clothes he liked as they wouldn’t come in the right size.
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‘Clothes began to not fit me and I couldn’t buy clothes I wanted to buy because I was too big,’ he said. ‘It was time I started to do something about it.’
Sam embarked on a stream of unsuccessful weight loss attempts, but after signing up to a weight loss group he managed to shift no more than a few pounds in a year.
‘I lost a little weight with this slimming group but then my weight began to plateau and I really struggled to get it down after that,’ he recalled.
Unhealthy: Sam’s size affected his day-to-day life and left him unable to purchase the clothes he liked as they wouldn’t come in the right size – but he has since turned his life around
Sam, pictured in a recent gym selfie, said: ‘I decided to use these names I was being called as my motivation, to prove wrong the people who would call me such names’
Sam’s diet before
Breakfast: None
Lunch: Chicken Kiev with oven chips and baked beans
Dinner: Chinese takeaway
Snacks: Biscuits, Ben and Jerry’s ice cream, crisps
…what he eats now
Breakfast: Oats with sugar free syrup, protein shake and a coffee
Lunch: Chicken or tin of tuna with rice and veg
Dinner: Creamy pasta with vegetables
Snacks: Shake/fruit/ skinny popcorn
Sam realised he needed to change his nutrition to take the next step and after hearing about LDN Muscle through after a friend he downloaded the online guide.
Since taking the plunge in 2016, he has managed to halve his body fat percentage.
‘I studied the guide for a good few months religiously and started following it step by step,’ Sam recalled.
The chef has since lost almost 6 stone using the guides, his body fat percentage has dropped from 30 per cent to 15 per cent, and his tummy has been replaced by rippling abs after he swapped Chinese takeaways for healthy salads.
Sam’s weight loss not only laid his critics to rest but also allowed him to start living the lifestyle he wanted. By dropping his waist size from 38? to 32? his problems with clothes-shopping have become a thing of the past.
Sam shows off his trim new physique. Since taking the plunge, he has managed to halve his body fat percentage
Sam’s weight has allowed him to start living the lifestyle he wanted. By dropping his waist size from 38? to 32? his problems with clothes-shopping have become a thing of the past
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