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Stacey Leasca

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Mens health
9 Aug 2024
s career can only be described as a meteoric rise from nothing to something. Less than a decade ago, the 31-year-old UFC fighter worked as a plumbers apprentice. As he told Jimmy Fallon in a 2019 appearance on , at the time, he was fighting in low-level matches earning about $100 a fight and collecting welfare in Ireland to get by.
What Is Conor McGregor's Net Worth?
Mens health
7 Aug 2024
A little more than a decade ago, Graham Winder made the wise decision to quit smoking and get healthier. As a first step, Winder, 46, who works as a director of strategic alliances for a software company in Sydney, Australia, took up cycling. He loved the natural high he experienced from exercise, and it eventually led to him <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/fitness/g19542724/triathlon-training-guide/" id="6135a13b-7431-3107-a187-fdade77f7659"> taking up triathlon training </a> .
A Few Small Diet Changes Helped This Guy Get Fit
Mens health
7 Aug 2024
For most of his life, Matthew Galit was on the moveit was all that Galit, a 34-year-old police offer from Walnut Creek, California, had ever known. An unfortunate side-effect of constant travel, however, was that it gave him little to no time to focus on himself, his health, or his nutrition. As a result, he accepted the steady creep of weight gain as just an inevitable consequence.
Making One Rule Helped This Guy Lose 100 Pounds
Mens health
7 Aug 2024
Chris Arpino is the type of guy youd look at and assume he was always healthy. At 5-foot-9 Arpino, 37, who lives in Cornwall, England, never hit more than 191 pounds. But after years of ignoring his health, Arpino discovered he was living a lie-he never worked out, he never ate right. So when he suffered a serious back injury, he knew it was time to go from to genuinely healthy.
Two Simple Diet Changes Helped This Guy Get Ripped
Mens health
7 Aug 2024
Years of unhealthy habits caused Greg Woods' weight to climb to nearly 230 pounds. After experimenting with a number of diets-including the ketogenic diet, the carnivore diet, and intermittent fasting-Woods started to lose weight and get back in shape. Now a much healthier 160 pounds, Woods also won a $700 bet with a friend for successfully completing his weight loss transformation.
These Diet Changes Helped This Guy Lose 60 Lbs
Mens health
7 Aug 2024
After his weight climbed to nearly 380 pounds, Levi Combs committed to the CICO diet and worked on addressing his low self-esteem. Combining the diet with regular exercise, such as walking and going to the office gym helped him lose weight consistently. Since starting on the plan, he's lost more than 165 pounds and says he's "never felt better."
A Simple Diet Helped This Guy Lose 165 Lbs
Mens health
6 Aug 2024
As a kid, Patrick Nicho would eat if he felt sad. Hed eat if he felt happy. Hed eat when he was bored. And hed eat just about anything he could get his hands on. Because of this, by middle school, he weighed somewhere around 300 pounds. By high school, that number hit 400, and ultimately, just a few years after college, Nicho hit 520 pounds. But at 26 years old, he found his reason to change: His wife, Eva.
The Simple Ways This Man Lost More Than 200 Pounds
Mens health
6 Aug 2024
Varun Kaushik used to live his life in a haze. Each day, for almost every meal, the 23-year-old from Jaipur, India, would go out and indulge. This led to low energy, depression, a scale reading 250 pounds, and a deep fear of the future. After trying and failing several fad diets and loading up on supplements, Kaushik finally found the secret to success: Hard work. And it paid off with a 104-pound weight loss. My life before this transformation was absolutely the opposite to the kind of life ...
How This Guy Lost 104 Pounds and Got Shredded
Mens health
6 Aug 2024
Garrett Foster stopped keeping track of his weight after he hit 330 pounds. The 34-year-old, based just outside of Nashville, gained the weight after living what he called a stationary lifestyle. But after a close call with death, Foster decided it was time to get moving, dropping an estimated 80 pounds to date.
How a Busy Dad Lost 80 Pounds Thanks to CrossFit
Mens health
6 Aug 2024
Tiger Woods isn't just one of the most successful golfers of all time - he's also, without a doubt, one of the world's most famous athletes, period.
What Is Tiger Woods' Net Worth?
Mens health
6 Aug 2024
Jared Sklar knows all too well what love can do to your waistline. Though he was athletic in his younger years-playing baseball and hockey as a teen-the Los Angeles-based 27-year-old let all that fall to the wayside when he found love. Like , he replaced healthy habits with dining out, relaxing inside watching TV, and having all of his other motivations fall to the wayside.
Spin Classes Helped This Guy Lose Nearly 90 Pounds
Mens health
6 Aug 2024
Even as a kid, Dean Koenig struggled with his weight. Growing up in Cabramatta, Australia, Koenig was often picked on in school for his size, which led to even more weight gain throughout his teenage years. Things went from bad to worse for Koenig after a car accident nearly took his life. In his recovery, Koenig was told he may never run again, and he hit his highest point on the scale at 341 pounds.
Man Loses 165 Lbs. and Takes Up Bodybuilding
Mens health
6 Aug 2024
Nick Roubanis father died at the age of 74. The last 10 years of his fathers life, he explained, were very hard on him health-wise. His fathers own health is one of the many reasons Roubanis, a 58 guy from Whitestone, New York, says he had to lose weight from his heaviest point of 269 pounds.
How CrossFit Helped This Man Lose Over 60 Pounds
Mens health
6 Aug 2024
Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez announced their engagement on Saturday <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Buzz2LMg92D" id="ada8b122-1e2d-3e48-add1-efaac347076f"> with an Instagram pos </a> t showing off her absolutely massive engagement ring. You'd think people could just chill out and be happy for the <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/fitness/a19531140/jennifer-lopez-alex-rodriguez-new-ufc-gym/" id="6acfb166-e10d-339b-af56-17fe65d0a83c"> extraordinarily fit couple </a> , but nope, no...
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