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<\/a>\u201cBecause I was so big, they basically said, \u2018We\u2019re going to put this medication into you but the amount we have to use could kill you,\u2019\u201d says Fantetti. \u201cI remember being there in the hospital, and the nurse asking me if I was afraid to die, which was interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fantetti\u2019s family rallied together to make a personalized diet and fitness plan for him. He trained five days a week, and his sister made specially portioned meals for him. Fantetti says that when he changed his lifestyle, the weight began melting off, which gave him further motivation.<\/p>\n
\u201cBefore that, I didn\u2019t leave the house or do much of anything, and then after I started becoming healthy, I started experimenting with different sports and hiking, and all kinds of stuff,\u201d he says. \u201cYour whole life changes.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, the journey was not easy, particularly at the beginning.<\/p>\n
\u201cI lived on the second floor, so it was only one flight of stairs\u2014it was 10 steps in total\u2014and I distinctly remember going up those stairs after my first workout and feeling like my body, my legs, were so sore and angry, and I just flopped down onto the floor,\u201d says Fantetti. \u201cI laid there for an hour at least, and I remember thinking to myself, how are you going to do this?\u201d<\/p>\n
Changing his habits was challenging, but Fantetti kept his eye on the end goal and persisted.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would go out with my friends and they would have burgers and fries, and I would be sitting there with my salad. Like, how comical is that? The biggest guy in the group sitting there munching on his tiny salad while everyone else eats burgers and fries,\u201d says Fantetti, laughing. \u201cIt was hard sometimes just smelling them, but it was enough for me, knowing what the results were going to be, to keep away from all that stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n
Over a year and a half of strict self-discipline, Fantetti lost over 300 pounds. Thinking of his life before the weight loss, Fantetti reflects on how much has changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI couldn\u2019t even bend over and tie my shoes,\u201d he says. \u201cYou don\u2019t have much of a life when every moment you\u2019re trying to catch your breath. There\u2019s lots of brain fog and confusion.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fantetti says that the weight-loss process is intensely emotional, because emotions are physical, a product of chemistry within the body.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe journey you take when you\u2019re going from an obese life to a healthy life, it\u2019s not just a physical journey. You\u2019re expelling energy, emotion, memories,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019d push my body to its limits, so there was no more capacity to hold the emotion in. There would be emotional waves, and I found I was actually unable to control the emotion because my physical body was spent.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fantetti says he has a surgery planned, after which he is going to build more muscle and continue on his path to health.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe weight-loss journey isn\u2019t just about losing weight, you\u2019re actually going through a journey of discovery,\u201d he says. \u201cYou\u2019re going to learn a lot about yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When Tony Fantetti was in his 20s, he weighed over 500 pounds. However, when a medical emergency nearly killed him, Fantetti underwent a drastic weight-loss journey that changed his life. Fantetti, a 2008 alumnus of Camosun\u2019s Health Care Assistant program, says that as a child he was overweight because of how he was raised. \u201cThe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-february-9-2022"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22061"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22158,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22061\/revisions\/22158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}