Growing up as an obese teenager, I learned firsthand what its like to be “un-healthy”. It’s not a place I enjoyed being and experiencing all the stigmas that come with being obese was traumatic. At age 15 I made a decision to change my lifestyle. And for 18 years, I haven’t looked back. Fitness is, and always will be, a large part of my...
At age 42 & 50 pounds overweight, Michael saw a 5-part series covering obesity. Each day throughout the week, CBS linked obesity to a different condition for which he was taking daily medications: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, acid reflux and asthma. On Friday they summed it up by saying that obesity was 'socially contagious' and that if you were obese it was ‘OK’...
