About Us

My name is Franco short for Gianfranco this is basically my weight gain journey hopefully to become my weight loss journey. For all its worth I was in relatively great shape most of my life and growing up I was skinny. I don’t mean slim I mean really skinny growing up. In my twenties and thirties, I was in great shape and hit the gym regularly.

Turning Forty was Pivotal for me, it’s as though time stopped and I simply started putting on weight. At first, I started buying larger clothes and subconsciously telling myself it’s OK you got this. It’s as though it was someone else gaining the weight and not me. I kept telling myself that I would get back to the gym and get back in shape very soon. This never happened the way I wanted it to. I started going back to the gym which I never gave up my membership which I was a member for over 34 years before they closed down in May of 2020 due to COVID-19. I would go to the gym but I would not have any results I just kept putting on the weight. My mind started playing tricks on me. I started to avoid mirrors and basically started to avoid going out and people in general.

Then came the day when I looked at myself in the mirror and no longer recognized myself in the reflection. It’s as though the person staring back at me is a stranger. An older overweight stranger looking right back at me. This is not who I am and not what I envision of myself. Now it’s time to Get Back In Shape or die trying!

I will be staring this journey to get back into shape and be on this blog.

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