Kiwi’s incredible 90kg weight loss — ‘I thought I was going to die’
Jacques Robinson is half the man he used to be — literally. The 23-year-old tipped the scales at 190kg in 2018 but has since dropped to about 96kg.
Now, the Warkworth man hopes to inspire others to begin their weight loss journey and become healthier versions of themselves.
“I don’t feel like the person I used to be at all, I feel like a completely changed person,” he said.
“I never ever thought I’d be under 100kg . . . It took me a while to actually start believing in myself that I could do it.”
In 2017, Robinson got very sick, was having seizures up to seven times a day, barely sleeping and needed to take nearly 30 pills a day.
He put on between 20kg and 30kg at the time, much of it due to stress and overeating as an escape from reality.
After spending time in hospital, Robinson decided to turn his life around.
“I was getting worse and worse, I didn’t see any future.
“I thought I was going to die pretty much,” he said.
“Those things were escalating quite quickly really and a lot of it probably had to do with the weight I was carrying.”
Originally, the only thing Robinson was able to do was walk. So he did, in the morning and at night on the treadmill at his home.
He lost weight over time but he then decided to get a gym membership and a personal trainer.
“It wasn’t until I joined the gym and got a personal trainer that I actually started to notice huge differences in my weight loss,” Robinson said.
Now training to become a personal trainer himself, Robinson hopes sharing his story could be “a really big thing” for someone else.