SAM I.

Hi, I’m Sam, and I grew up in a large Italian family in southern New Jersey. We used to joke that you knew you were Italian if you grew up with a piece of bread in your left hand at every meal. We liked to eat and didn’t always make the best choices, mainly because it cost a lot more to eat healthy but a lot of it was also cultural.

As you might suspect, I struggled with weight my whole life. We were active as kids but nothing that resembled a regular workout routine. Some fad diets worked but each time I went back to bad habits and the weight would come back, usually much faster than I lost it.

When tragedy struck our family in January 2019, I sought counseling and intentionally picked a doctor who specialized in working with obesity. By this time, I was officially morbidly obese, which is such an ugly way to describe being unhealthy. I was slowly but surely killing myself. A dear friend of mine. Lori Little (another client of FFT) sent me a link for a free month with her trainer, Trey Shadwick.