From overweight to inshape! Dad of two Ed’s 18kg weight loss & incredible body transformation with CMP!

“I honestly feel like i’ve tried everything to get into shape in the past! Diets, group training, personal training, beasting myself with long runs and nothing addressed why i couldn’t lose weight and keep it off.

That all changed when i worked with Chris at CMP!

Hi Ed, Would you like to introduce yourself?

I’m Ed, a business owner and family man from Sheffield!

Why did you reach out to work with CMP, what were your initial goals?

I reached out to CMP completely at a loss. After spending years just yo-yo dieting, i was mentally exhausted and physically drained. I’d never really sustained any level of weight loss and it got to a point where i expected to fail when i started my latest attempt to lose weight.

The frustrating thing for me was that it wasn’t that i didn’t like exercise either! My background in the Army had built physical fitness into my daily life that i’d always enjoyed, so why couldn’t i lose the weight and belly fat that i’d become very conscious of as i got older?

My ultimate aim was to become lean and sub 90kg, something i’d never achieved as an adult. I wanted to look good in clothes and actually feel confident, not conscious, on the beach playing with my daughters on holiday. If i could achieve this goal, that would have been everything for me.

What were the motivating factors in wanting to achieve these goals?

Honestly? being unhappy every time i looked in the mirror!

Not just that, but i was also fed up of constantly having to start over again and again. Because i’d hired personal trainers in the past and hadn’t seen results, i was also determined to make this time the last time i needed to get in shape.

This was another reason i chose CMP and not a commercial gym PT. I needed accountability, expertise but also to be guided.

I thought i knew a lot about diets and exercise but from working with CMP, i have since learned i was totally wrong!

Can you tell us about the results that you’ve achieved with us?

Well let’s start with that i’m 18kg lighter! Breaking past the 100kg weight barrier was huge for me but to now see a body that i feel like i’ve chased for over 20 years but for it to actually be me has been life changing.

But it’s not just the weight loss. Working with Chris as my PT has been so much more, i’m happier, more confident and i feel like i’m a better husband and father because i’m not stuck in my own head anymore. I’m not all or nothing about food, i’m not always in a rush to lose weight any more and actually i’ve learnt how to eat more food as well as how to eat when dieting!

What’s the biggest thing you’ve learnt working with us

Probably the biggest thing i’ve learnt is nutrition and how to diet properly. In the past, i’d cut my calories and food intake right down in the hope of losing weight to then have a blow out at the weekend. I’ve learnt that i don’t need to be extreme with dieting anymore and actually, i’ve been taught about diet breaks and reverse diets too which is something that was completely alien to me before joining CMP. I only actually now diet in dedicated diet phases, like the one for the photoshoot! I’m not spending my life dieting, i’m in the shape i thought i’d never get to and that for me is crazy to comprehend.