How to Lose 25kg in 8 Months (Interview with PE Reader Mike Adamski) [Video]

It’s been a while, but here’s the latest video episode where I interview Mike Adamski, a PE reader who lost 25kg in just eight months (from 99kg to 74kg)!

Mike resides in South Africa and has been reading PE for a while. I met him during the Johannesburg PE meetup earlier this year, along with other African PE readers. (He told me that he enjoys the PE podcasts, as he can listen to them while working out or doing other stuff!)

African PE readers: Sandy, Myself, and Samantha

Group shot: That’s Mike on the right row! (He’s the only Caucasian in the photo.)

My first impression of Mike was that he seems very energetic, fit, and in the pink of health. Just one look at him and you’d think that this guy has been in shape all his life because he looks effortlessly lean.

So imagine my shock when Mike revealed that he used to be 25 kg heavier: not 10 or 15 years ago, but merely two years ago!!! And the second shock: He lost all that weight in just eight months.

Oh wait, there’s one more: He stayed that way and never regained the weight.

The other readers must have had the same first impression as I did because everyone was reacting with shock when I related his story. One of the attendees, Tsungai, (whom I was staying with) went back home after the meetup and prepared salads and fruits to eat, when she normally wouldn’t make a deliberate effort to eat healthy. Why? She said she was inspired by Mike to eat healthier.

I was struck by Mike’s weight loss story even after I left South Africa, to the point where I scheduled a Skype interview with him after returning to Singapore.

Watch the video above to learn how Mike made the change to be healthier and how you can do so too. :) Get ready to learn:

• Mike’s diet and lifestyle in the past (hint: it was definitely not of the healthiest food!)
• His turning point in Dec 2009 when he decided “This was it” and he was going to turn his health and life around
• His experience going jogging for the first time in his life and how it became a weekly habit
• Why obsessing about achieving your goals in X time or Y manner will make you fail, and how to succeed instead
• The ONE thing Mike did which helped him to jump-start his diet
• How Mike lost 25kg in just 8 months (hint: it was actually not even something he was deliberately going for)
• His current diet and fitness regime which sustains his new weight
• Mike’s top tips for sustainable weight loss and healthy living

* Excuse the video jerkiness at some parts; I’m on a very high-speed internet connection and this was the best I could get in our Skype call together.

Further reading: 10 Reasons You Are Not Losing Weight (and How to Fix Them) | Manifesto version

(Music Credit: Sunshine by Kevin Macleod. Pictures © Personal Excellence)