When Omar Thaher was rising up, he gained a lot weight that he "grew to become numb" to the quantity on the scales. "I graduated highschool touching 400 kilos," he says, in a current episode of webseries Model New Me.

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It was solely on the age of 19, when he reached his heaviest at 440 kilos, that Omar knew he needed to make a change. "I simply realized that is getting out of hand, my life is both going to finish with me shedding this weight, getting in form, or persevering with down this path and dying at a younger age or getting some form of illness."

He began exercising, together with lifting weights on the health club, and throughout the first month had misplaced greater than 30 kilos, which inspired him to maintain going. Now, he says the health club has "change into therapeutic" for him: "It is about retaining me sane, retaining me mentally the place I wish to be."

Omar finally misplaced a staggering 230 kilos in lower than two years, and now maintains his weight at 250 kilos or so. He additionally makes YouTube movies wherein he shares the issues he has discovered all through his journey, within the hope that his insights can be helpful to others.