Tom Terbrock: In the beginning…

Tom T: 45 years old

Starting Weight: 368 LBS.

Starting Date: October 2005

June 2007 Weight: 267 LBS.

Yep, that picture was Tom before he began his weight loss 1.5 years ago. He was over-weight, diabetic, and had no energy; however, because he had been over-weight all of his life he didn’t know that he could feel better.

I bet if you think hard enough, you can remember that chunky kid in grade school that you thought of as “the fat kid”. He got teased and made fun of relentlessly. Well, this was Tom; the kindest person you could ever hope to meet. Throughout high school he played hockey and dreamed of going professional but the burden of his weight and low self-esteem caused him to change career paths. Fortunately for us, he went on to find his passion in radio at 97.1 Talk and KSHE and it was through one of their advertisers, Powerhouse Gym, that he discovered a new passion for losing weight and getting fit.

For about a year, the owners of Powerhouse Gym and Tom’s good friend Dave Glover told him that he could lose weight if he worked out. He wasn’t convinced. Then one fateful day he met Charles D’Angelo; a 20 year old who was scheduled to talk on The Dave Glover Show because he had lost 120 LBS in 15 months and was working at Powerhouse Gym to help others successfully realize their weight-loss goals.

“The minute I laid eyes on Charles, I saw myself; maybe it was because he had been “the fat kid” in school too or maybe it was because he knew what it felt like to feel hopeless about losing a ton of weight. But whatever it was that i saw in him, something in my heart told me to trust in Charles because he could help me,” says Tom.