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Title: Once Weighting 450 lbs, Man Now A 200 lbs Bodybuilder!
Post by: musclecenter on July 08, 2011, 08:24:27 PM



http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/07/08/2306020/through-body-building-family-finds.html (http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/07/08/2306020/through-body-building-family-finds.html)


After surviving gastric bypass surgery, Juan Morato turned to healthy living and will compete in the NPC Southern States bodybuilding championships.


By DAVID J. NEAL
dneal@MiamiHerald.com
On Saturday morning, 51-year-old Juan Morato will stand on the War Memorial Auditorium stage at the NPC Southern States bodybuilding championships, a 6-0, 200-pound living “After” picture of strength and health.

Morato will do so after embodying two kinds of “Before” pictures – 450 pounds of mass consumption and, later, wheelchair-bound, paralyzed from the neck down. That Morato didn’t die between those two “Before” shots, that he carries a symmetrical, chiseled physique now can be credited to his strength, discipline … and the love of a woman. And her strength. And her faith.

“If it would’ve been the other way around, I wouldn’t have been able to handle it,” Morato said in a tone that reflects 30 years of affection and admiration for wife, Teresa, who competed in the Over 50 Figure competition Friday.

When a problem with gastric bypass surgery resulted in Juan being in a coma and so close to death, a priest was called in to give last rites, Teresa Morato substituted her own prayers for her husband’s recovery. When he left the hospital unable to do basic tasks and specialists saying he would have a tough time just walking again, she told them he’d be celebrating the next Christmas on his feet. When he recovered but ran himself down to a reedy 158 pounds, she told him on a Thursday that he had an appointment with a personal trainer Monday to put on some muscle.

Juan still almost cries today thinking about what Teresa and his then-teenage children, Jonathan and Jennifer, went through. He feels responsible for them sleeping on a South Miami Hospital conference room table night after night during his coma, awaking at 7 a.m. before medical staff needed the room for meetings.

“It was a team effort, 100 percent,” Juan said. “I can’t ask for better.”



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Title: Re: Once Weighting 450 lbs, Man Now A 200 lbs Bodybuilder!
Post by: MP on July 08, 2011, 09:19:34 PM
Good story.
Title: Re: Once Weighting 450 lbs, Man Now A 200 lbs Bodybuilder!
Post by: Marty Champions on July 08, 2011, 09:23:10 PM
tonite im just gonna pray for everyone to have a good life its all i can do
Title: Re: Once Weighting 450 lbs, Man Now A 200 lbs Bodybuilder!
Post by: Schmoff on July 08, 2011, 09:57:09 PM
that's not Bruce Randall

Title: Re: Once Weighting 450 lbs, Man Now A 200 lbs Bodybuilder!
Post by: _bruce_ on July 09, 2011, 04:44:52 AM
that's not Bruce Randall



Dude looked great.
Title: Re: Once Weighting 450 lbs, Man Now A 200 lbs Bodybuilder!
Post by: Swede! on July 09, 2011, 04:58:04 AM
gastric bypass... Omg what a champ lol.

I bet the post above this one didnt get no damn gastric bypass.
Title: Re: Once Weighting 450 lbs, Man Now A 200 lbs Bodybuilder!
Post by: DK II on July 09, 2011, 05:29:41 AM
LOL, he turned into "healthy living" and is now a competitive bodybuilder??  ::) ::)

Looks more like he turned in one addiction (food) to the other (steroids), like our own BB champ "tdongs".
Title: Re: Once Weighting 450 lbs, Man Now A 200 lbs Bodybuilder!
Post by: blackpele on July 09, 2011, 07:08:19 AM
that's not Bruce Randall




http://ditillo2.blogspot.com/2008/08/how-bruce-randall-trained-randall-rader.html

Visit this site the guy was eating like 28 fried eggs for breakfast :)
Title: Re: Once Weighting 450 lbs, Man Now A 200 lbs Bodybuilder!
Post by: DK II on July 09, 2011, 08:22:58 AM

http://ditillo2.blogspot.com/2008/08/how-bruce-randall-trained-randall-rader.html

Visit this site the guy was eating like 28 fried eggs for breakfast :)

There must be a "0" missing, at least 280 fried eggs....  ::) ::) ::) ::)


God, don't you just love bodybuilders talking shit about their diet?
Title: Re: Once Weighting 450 lbs, Man Now A 200 lbs Bodybuilder!
Post by: bigbadwolfe on July 09, 2011, 08:28:20 AM
Gastric Bypass??? Fuck that there is more pride in doing it the hard way. I'm not real impressed anyone can drop weight with surgery!!!
Title: Re: Once Weighting 450 lbs, Man Now A 200 lbs Bodybuilder!
Post by: Dr Dutch on July 09, 2011, 09:41:54 AM
that's not Bruce Randall


Why didn't this Randall guy end up with loads of loose skin like you see on those tv shows all the time ??   ???
Title: Re: Once Weighting 450 lbs, Man Now A 200 lbs Bodybuilder!
Post by: The Abdominal Snoman on July 09, 2011, 08:59:11 PM
Give the guy a mouth grill and we have the one-the only


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