Summer Shredding
Toronto, Ontario
My story
320 pounds to
320 pounds to
a bodybuilding stage
Thirty-four months, 109 pounds, and a third-place finish in the Transformation class at Summer Shredding 2026. Here's the whole thing — including a year of training under medical restrictions, and a health setback that stopped me completely four months before I stepped on stage.
320 lbsMy heaviest, October 2023
211 lbsOn stage, 14 August 2026
109 lbsTotal lost
34 moJust over 3 lbs a month
What happened
Three years, not three months
I started in October 2023 at 320 pounds. On 14 August 2026 I stepped on stage at Summer Shredding in Toronto, in the Transformation class, at 211. That's thirty-four months and 109 pounds — a bit over three pounds a month.
I want that number in front of you before anything else, because it's the part the industry hides. Nobody sells a three-year plan. But three pounds a month is the pace that actually held, and it's the reason I'm still 211 now rather than telling you about the weight I used to lose.
I struggled with my weight for years, and every time I made progress I found a way to undo it. By October 2023 I was drinking and eating whatever was in front of me. Then my annual physical came back with my cholesterol through the roof. That was the last straw.
I started lifting again and doing daily cardio. In January 2024 I hired my first coach, and that's the part that actually changed things — not the information, the accountability. Someone was going to look at my week with me. That structure is what I'd been missing for years, and it's the thing I now build for other people.
Nine months in, a check-up turned up a health issue that came with hard training restrictions. That is a hard thing to hear when you have finally started doing everything right.
I trained for a year inside the lines my doctor drew. Not roughly. Exactly. When it was reassessed a year later, the news was good.
I don't tell that part as advice. I tell it because I got properly assessed, I followed the restrictions I was given, and I stayed with it — and that is what got me to the right answer. A worrying result on a report is not the end of the road, but it is also not something you train through on your own judgement.
On 3 January 2026 I committed to standing on a bodybuilding stage. Then in April, mid-prep, a health setback stopped me completely.
I waited until my doctor cleared me. That part matters, and I'd tell any client the same thing: the doctor decides when you go back, not you. Once I was cleared, I knew what to do. I got back up and back to work. Four months later I was on stage at 211 pounds, and I placed third.
I haven't just built a physique. I've built the discipline that shows up whether I feel like it or not — confidence and patience, earned by not missing days. That structure runs through every part of my life now.
The timeline
How it actually went
Not a straight line. Most of them aren't.
October 2023 · 320 lbs
The physical that changed it
Annual bloodwork came back with my cholesterol through the roof. I'd been drinking and eating whatever was in front of me. That was the last straw — I started lifting again and doing daily cardio.
January 2024
I hired my first coach
This is the part that changed everything. Not new information — accountability, and structure I'd never managed to hold on my own.
Mid-2024 · nine months in
A diagnosis, and new limits
Nine months into finally doing everything right, a check-up turned up a health issue that came with hard training restrictions. I kept training — inside the limits my doctor set, exactly.
Mid-2025 · a year later
Good news
Twelve months of training inside those limits, and then a reassessment came back with good news. Following the restrictions, rather than pushing through them, is what got me there.
3 January 2026
I committed to the stage
A specific decision on a specific day. Having a date on the calendar changes how you train.
April 2026 · mid-prep
A setback, and waiting to be cleared
Thirty months into the work and four months out from the show, a health setback stopped me completely. I stopped, and I waited for my doctor to clear me — which is the only correct answer to that situation.
14 August 2026 · 211 lbs
On stage, third place
Transformation class at Summer Shredding in Toronto. Thirty-four months from that first blood test — and four months from the setback.
The stage
Summer Shredding 2026, Toronto
I placed third in the Transformation class — the division for people who got there the long way. It's the most honest category in the sport, and it's exactly the journey I coach.
14 August 2026
34 months after I started
Transformation
The division for the long way round
3rd place
On stage at 211 lbs, down from 320
Why it matters to you
What 109 pounds taught me about coaching
Losing the weight made me qualified to understand you. Doing it under medical restrictions, and coming back from a setback four months before the show, taught me the rest.
01
I've been the person starting over
I know what it's like to restart on a Monday for the tenth time and quietly assume you're the problem. You're not. The plan was. That's why everything I build is designed around your real week rather than an ideal one.
02
Thirty-four months is the honest number
You can white-knuckle six weeks. You cannot white-knuckle three years. What got me there was a plan sustainable enough to be boring, and a pace — about three pounds a month — slow enough that my life didn't have to stop for it.
03
The scale lies constantly
Over three years I watched the number stall for weeks while everything else — strength, sleep, waist, photos — kept moving. Knowing which signals to trust and which to ignore is most of the job, and it's why check-ins track more than bodyweight.
04
A setback is not a reset
A health setback stopped me thirty months in, four months out from a show I'd committed to. It didn't undo the work — it paused it. Most people treat a bad week like it erases everything and quit; the actual skill is knowing the difference between a pause and a reset — and waiting to be cleared before you start again, then training inside whatever limits you're given.
05
Prep is not the goal for most people
Competing taught me how far the body can be pushed — and exactly how little of that belongs in a normal person's plan. Most of what I learned in peak week, I deliberately leave out of lifestyle coaching.
Client transformations
This section is empty on purpose
I stepped off that stage in August and started coaching. I'm taking on my first clients now, so there are no client before-and-afters to show you yet. I'd rather tell you that than fill this page with stock photos or somebody else's results.
What I can show you is my own: 320 pounds to a bodybuilding stage at 211, over thirty-four months. When my clients' results come in — with their permission, and with the timeline attached — they'll go right here.
A note on my results
My transformation is mine. Results depend on adherence, health, genetics and other factors outside anyone's control, and no specific weight, body-composition, strength or competition outcome is guaranteed. What I commit to is the plan, the weekly review and the adjustments.