{"id":1040210,"date":"2026-06-21T05:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T05:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1040210\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T05:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T05:04:13","slug":"how-a-100kg-father-struggling-to-keep-up-with-his-4-year-old-lost-27kg-in-6-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1040210\/","title":{"rendered":"How a 100kg father struggling to keep up with his 4-year-old lost 27kg in 6 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Even now, Ayo Canlas can still vividly recall the elite tennis athlete he was as a student, a time that saw him represent the Philippines in the 2006 Junior Davis Cup. Last year, however, the 37-year-old corporate executive found he was struggling to keep up with a four-year-old.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">This wake-up call came during a family staycation in Singapore in December, when his daughter Arya challenged him to swim the length of the hotel pool with her.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIt was difficult for me to match her pace,\u201d says Canlas, now a chief financial officer for a consumer appliances company in Singapore. \u201cIn my mind, I was still a top tennis player. In reality, I had no stamina.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The pool incident solidified a journey that had begun a few weeks earlier. In October 2025, Canlas had hit his highest weight of 100kg (220lbs), and a medical check-up the following month had revealed he was on a dangerous health trajectory.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Choosing to make lifestyle changes over taking medication, he worked with a personal trainer for a highly monitored overhaul of his diet and strength training. The regime yielded dramatic results: by May 2026, he had shed 27kg to reach 73kg, cutting his body fat from 30 per cent to 13 per cent.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A young Ayo Canlas plays tennis in 2011. Photo: Ayo Canlas\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a7ca8c1e-3f72-492f-86cf-baa55f1f9290_8d504815.jpg\" title=\"A young Ayo Canlas plays tennis in 2011. Photo: Ayo Canlas\"\/>A young Ayo Canlas plays tennis in 2011. Photo: Ayo Canlas<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">His fall from fitness will be familiar to many. After graduating from college, he kept eating whatever he liked while his physical activity level fell dramatically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even now, Ayo Canlas can still vividly recall the elite tennis athlete he was as a student, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1040211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4322],"tags":[286566,286564,372,1154,13035,1630,105,75586,13319,286568,286565,5123,14966,286567,2143,4713,164167,16,115698,15],"class_list":["post-1040210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-100kg","tag-ayo-canlas","tag-diet","tag-exercise","tag-father","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-how-to-lose-weight","tag-hyrox","tag-international-competitions","tag-junior-davis-cup","tag-personal-trainer","tag-philippines","tag-shamus-sum","tag-singapore","tag-strength-training","tag-tennis-player","tag-uk","tag-ultimate-performance","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116786355851443397","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1040211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}