SuperSize Him
Apparently, Australian personal trainer Paul James has hit a major benchmark on the way to fulfilling his New Year’s Resolution…
A PERSONAL trainer who started eating chips and burgers to better understand his gym clients is now officially obese – and hating it.
Paul “PJ” James, a former underwear model, has gone from strutting catwalks at 80kg to 110kg in three months.
He is ploughing through the junk food – up to 30 slices of pizza in one binge sitting – and the money.
“It’s just very expensive to be unhealthy,” he told the Herald Sun.
“I used to spend about $80 on food a week. I could easily spend $300 now.”
James has stopped exercising in a bid to max-out at 120kg.
When he reaches his goal, he’s planning to maintain his weight for 3 months before losing it with his clients at his gym in Brunswick.
Personally, I think it’s a stupid stunt. Adding weight rapidly doesn’t put you in quite the same place (physiologically-speaking) as doing it slowly over the years – as many overweight people do. In addition, it’s not as if he doesn’t already know what to do and how to do it…in fact, I expect he’ll feel relieved to get back to healthy eating and working out. However difficult it may be for him to shed the excess, he’ll still have an easier time of it than someone with entrenched habits to retrain, less favorable genetics and no “muscle memory.” Thus, the empathy he claims to be seeking is likely to be incomplete.
