I was actually slim for most of my life, despite an unhealthy diet. During my pregnancies with lots of bed rest and frustration and subsequent prolonged illness with even more bed rest and even more frustration, I gradually gained weight (from 60 kilos to 80 kilos at 164 cm). In the first Corona year with school closures, homeschooling, enormous stress at work (Covid Intensive) and very very little sleep, I gained another 18 kilos pretty quickly. Due to said prolonged illness, my heart was compromised and at an appointment with my cardiologist in October 2020, a pretty bleak future was predicted for me. Starting with a soon necessary heart valve operation up to artificial hearts and heart transplantation. To delay this I should please lose weight.
I had tried so far pretty much everything what there is on the market to buy to lose weight be it Almased (disgusting stuff), Weight Watchers, slim in sleep and what I do not know everything. I'm pretty sure I know just about every diet and program. I never followed any of them for more than a month and of course never had any success.
Of course I was not sporty at all, I think I was out of breath when I had to run up the stairs. I also thought my whole life after successful school sports compensation that I was simply unathletic. At the time I probably wouldn't have admitted it or expressed it that way, but I was just enormously sluggish and unhappy and unhappy. Buying clothes was an ordeal. And by consistently failing at diets, my self-worth was totally in the basement, I thought I was just undisciplined, weak-willed, as if failing at this one thing determined everything else in my life. A particularly bad moment for me was also when I couldn't keep up with my 3 year old son at the races. I was just too fat to really romp and play with my son.
In December 2020, I had read a referral for Tobi on Facebook. I am skeptical of anything I get recommended from social media at first. And from personal coaching I had no idea and I had actually so yet heard nothing of. Basically, the decision to go to Tobi was quite a knee-jerk reaction. I didn't compare anything, didn't look at many other offers, etc. I thought I'd either find myself now or not.
I thought at the time that I would either resign myself to being fat and probably sick forever or I would try something different, with more help and personally tailored to me. At that time I thought ok, this is the last chance I'm going to give myself, then I'll give it up.
My goal at that time was really just to lose weight, that's all I wanted.
I remember that Tobi asked me what I wanted to achieve and I said 20 kilos less would be great and he replied: "Dream big" and I then said, well, basically I want to weigh around 60 kilos again. But that seemed so incredibly impossible to me and he was so completely sure "Sure, we can do that". That is why I went to him, he has never doubted and has always conveyed to me that this is basically not difficult at all.
So we started coaching in January 2021. By May 2021, I had lost 20 kilos. And I could be very satisfied with that, but nothing about me was tight. So from May on, I upgraded the coaching to nutrition and training. At that time, it wasn't about the sport at all, I didn't want to get fitter, I just didn't want to be so flabby anymore. In strength training, I really started from scratch. I couldn't do anything, my strength values were basically non-existent, my exercise execution was scary and the whole subject was a closed book to me. In the beginning it was just pure torture, but when I started to have success I enjoyed it more and more from week to week and developed an amazing ambition to improve from workout to workout, from week to week. Although losing weight was still the main focus and building muscle was still secondary. This then shifted from month to month more and more in the direction of training. We kept up the diet until the end of October 2021. In the end I was at 60 kilos, as desired. So that I have lost 35 kilos in 10 months, taking into account the simultaneous muscle building Tobi assumes about 40 kilos of fat loss.
I continued to stay with Tobi. Now with the main focus on muscle building. Meanwhile, people who knew me only fat and unathletic simply walk past me on the street. Today I get restless if I don't move enough, I get in a bad mood if I can't go to sports. My now 6 year old son accompanies me to jogging on the bike because otherwise he can not keep up. I always participate in every sporting activity and try everything out, just for fun.
I can not put into words what has changed in my life and almost everything for the better (we prefer not to talk about my addiction to clothes, but now just EVERYTHING looks good). Overall, I am also much happier and more stable. I know much more precisely what is important to me, for what and also for whom I want to use my time. I have learned to set priorities and to stick to them even when it is inconvenient or my motivation is not there. And I have built up an incredible trust in myself. What Tobi offers is not just coaching for training and nutrition, he has painstakingly taught me (and still is) to pay attention to my stress, my mindset, my sleep, my habits. Basically, completely priceless.
I'm not sure where I would be without him, I probably would have continued to gain weight and be seriously ill right now. During my last visit to a cardiologist, he only said that he didn't want to see me again for 30 years, that the family doctor could do the further checks and that with my current heart function I could still live to be 100. I would always go back to Tobi, I have not regretted the decision to book this coaching for a second and for what it has done in my life, it was basically a gift. I can really recommend Tobi without reservation to anyone for gaining weight, losing weight, training optimization, etc.
In addition to his vast expertise, Tobi has a very clear manner, a wonderful sense of humor, he never condemns you and always looks for the possibility to make the best of the situation. He is super accessible and always takes his time when challenges arise.
And for everyone who goes to Tobi's coaching I have the following advice: Save yourself any discussion, Tobi is always right ;-)
I have tried this thoroughly.
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