Dude Who Got Bullied For Being Overweight Is Now An International Fitness Model

Lots of people can be horrible dickheads. Not many people can transform their lives so drastically for the better.

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Michael Sullivan is a 23 year old model that travels the world. But, just a few years ago he was an overweight guy in the pub, getting bullied for his size. He’d had enough of being called a ‘fat bastard’, and decided to do something about it. That ‘something’ was go from a slob that drank too much beer and ate too much shitty junk food, to a fitness model with a body most guys would envy, and certainly not take the piss out of him for.

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You get fed up of the same feeling everyday, getting up every morning being out of shape, out of breath. I also had a 20 minute trek to college and every day by the time I got in I’d be soaked in sweat and it wasn’t like I’d done a run.

I was going around in sweaty clothes for the rest of the day and I thought to myself, this has got to change. I was 19 when I started, and lost six and half stone in six months through poor nutrition and starving myself thinking that was how you got ripped.

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The saddest thing of all is that when you’re overweight and make a transformation, the people who didn’t want to know you before all want to be your friends. People who wouldn’t give me the time of day before come up to me now and tried to pretend like we were friends before, when the reality was they couldn’t care less about you.

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Fair play to the lad. I’ve been thinking for a little while that I could do with losing some weight and toning up. Then I also think about junk food – which is why I don’t look like he does, or get to travel the world. I’ll start in January, I promise.

Remember, bullying isn’t col, and you’ll get what you deserve.