“I was always overweight,” Hernandez, 32, tells PEOPLE. “Out of eight kids, I was the fat one with the huge appetite.” But life at home was hard. Raised by a single mother in the projects of Tempe, Arizona, Hernandez and his family didn’t have a lot of money. “My food options weren’t the best – we would have cheap fast foods, donation boxes of foods,” he says. “Playing outside wasn’t much of an option due to the high crime rate in our projects.” They even endured bouts of homelessness.
He continued to struggle throughout his childhood, losing his older brother when he was 16 years old and going through a painful breakup a few years later. He became severely depressed. Friends intervened when they saw him struggling. “They reminded me of a promise I made to my late brother to fix myself,” says Hernandez, who weighed 325 lbs. at his heaviest. “I knew I was damaged inside and out and needed to make a change.”
This is what my 182 lbs looks like, I can see a bit more vascularity lines in my frame, my waist looks a bit more slimmer as well which is a good sign that I am shaping and not just losing weight.
The scale may give a number but that number reflects all sorts of things, water weight, lack of sleep, it using the bathroom for 💩 etc. So when it comes to aiming for fat loss, I tend to pay more attention to how my body shapes down while not losing my size. does that make sense? I want to preserve and keep as much muscle as I can since I train so hard to get them. I don't want to lose them just to lose "weight " so keep that in mind when losing weight. It's about sculpting and building the frame you imagine. I don't think I have seen an artist weigh his clay when he builds his masterpiece..he adds and takes away what he doesn't or does want
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