110 KG → 75 KG

I spent years trying diets. Then I stopped chasing diets and started understanding my body.

I learned it the long way. Let me help you shorten the journey.

The Transformation Timeline

[Photos pending — William to supply three photos: at 110kg, at 104kg (when he joined USANA), and at 75kg (today). Placeholder boxes below mark where each one goes.]

My Story

At my heaviest, I reached 110 kg.

For years, I was caught in a cycle that will be familiar to a lot of people. I tried Jenny Craig, Atkins, Weight Watchers, low-fat, low-calorie, low-carb and other approaches. Sometimes I lost a few kilos and felt fantastic. Then I would gain some back, start again, and try something else.

Lose a few. Gain a few. Start again.

It became stressful. The more I dieted, the less I trusted myself. I thought I lacked discipline because I could not make the results last. Looking back, I now see that I had plenty of determination – what I did not have was a clear understanding of how food, appetite, blood glucose, muscle, sleep and lifestyle all fit together.

It took me years just to move from around 110 kg to 104 kg.

Then I joined USANA at about 104 kg. A couple of months later I joined a structured 90-day Reset program. Each week I recorded my weight and measurements. At the beginning, I used a low-glycemic protein shake for breakfast, another for lunch, and then a low-glycemic whole-food meal in the evening, with vegetables and appropriate fruit when needed.

What made that experience different was that I was not simply being sold another product. I was being given structure, education and practical tools to solve the problem I was struggling with.

The Reset program introduced me to low-glycemic eating and helped me begin understanding what different foods were doing in my body. Instead of only being told what to eat, I started learning why I was making those choices.

My personal result was about 12 kg lost in 12 weeks. That gave me momentum – but the biggest thing I gained was confidence.

For the first time in years, I started believing I could do this. I wanted to know more, so I began studying nutrition and metabolic health much more deeply. I spent a lot of time learning online, experimenting with my own meals and paying attention to how my body responded.

I learned more about blood glucose and insulin. I learned that the quantity, quality and combination of carbohydrates matter. I learned the importance of protein, fibre, dietary fats, whole foods, movement, muscle, sleep and satiety. I also began paying much more attention to highly processed foods and to how strongly rewarding foods can make appetite harder to regulate.

That changed the way I thought about willpower. I stopped seeing every craving or setback as proof that I was weak. I began to understand that biology, habits, environment and food design can all influence how easy or difficult our choices feel.

That is one of the messages I now want other people to hear: if you have struggled for years, it does not mean you are a failure. Many of us were given incomplete, oversimplified or outdated messages about food. We can reset what we think we know and learn again.

For me, the goal stopped being another temporary diet. It became a lifestyle I could understand and live with.

As my understanding grew, I shifted toward more whole foods and learned to build meals around the things that helped me feel nourished and satisfied. I still sometimes use a protein shake as a convenient way to increase protein, especially because maintaining muscle becomes increasingly important as we get older – but the product is a tool inside the lifestyle, not the lifestyle itself.

Eventually I reached 75 kg – 35 kg below my highest weight.

I cannot know exactly what would have happened if I had stayed on my old path, but I was deeply concerned about where my weight and metabolic health were heading. Joining USANA and being introduced to a more structured, science-focused way of learning about food became a major turning point in my life.

What I loved most was that the solution was not simply, ‘Here, take a product.’ The education helped me understand the biology. The structure helped me get started. The nutrition products helped support the process. And the lifestyle made the change sustainable.

Products can support the journey. Education changes the journey. Lifestyle makes it sustainable.

Today, I do not want to put people on another diet. I want to shorten the learning curve that took me years. I want to help people understand how food affects them, how to build more satisfying meals, how to support healthier blood-glucose regulation, why muscle and movement matter, and how to create an everyday environment that supports better metabolic health.

RESET. RELEARN. REBUILD.

Reset the habits and assumptions that are not serving you. Relearn how food and lifestyle affect your body. Rebuild an environment that makes better choices easier and more sustainable.

The idea is to reduce what burdens the body, increase what nourishes it, and support a lower-inflammation lifestyle. In practice: more whole foods, adequate protein and fibre, regular movement and muscle work, good sleep, and fewer heavily processed foods and unnecessary exposures.

And throughout all of this is one belief that matters deeply to me: the body is the hero.

I do not believe a diet is the hero. I do not believe a supplement is the hero. The body has remarkable systems for regulation, repair and adaptation. Our job is to create a better environment for those systems to do their work, while using appropriate medical care when it is needed.

For me there is also a spiritual dimension. I believe God designed the human body with an extraordinary capacity to function when we care for it properly.

That is why my mission now goes beyond my own transformation. If I can help one person learn faster, get an early result, regain confidence and build a lifestyle, that person can influence their partner, their children, their family and their community.

One person’s transformation can create a ripple effect.

I spent years trying to lose weight. Then I stopped chasing diets and started understanding my body. I learned it the long way. Now I want to help other people take the shortcut – not a shortcut around discipline, but a shortcut to the knowledge.

This is William’s personal experience, not a promise of typical results or medical treatment. Weight-loss results vary. Please consult appropriate medical care when needed.