My next journey has just begun

Today I visited the Hospital in Varberg and met up with my surgeon. It's now a fact - I will partly get the operation that I wanted. The excess skin that came from my weight loss of almost 70 kg (~150 lbs) will be removed, but they will only operate on my abdomen. This means that removing the skin around each breast is an operation that I will have to fund myself. Luckily, this operation is not as expensive as the one I will be given. The abdomen operation that I'm getting for free would've cost me around 55000 SEK ($8000).

BEFORE | AFTER | FUTURE

Entering the scene of Bodybuilding
So, today is a good day, as it marks the beginning of my new journey. I've already halved my body weight, taken myself from being heavily overweight to being fairly fit. It's now time to repair the body from the beating that it's taken and start traveling towards my new goal: Entering the scene of bodybuilding.

Follow me?
For those of you who want to follow me, I've already decided to document this process. Today, I filmed my meeting with the surgeon and I will continue on filming my progress just as I've already filmed part of it up to this point. I'm not yet sure how and when I will release this footage. For instance, I might decide on doing a 10 minute short segment each week, or I might just bundle it up in one entire movie. Whichever way I decide to go I hope that I can inspire some of you, or at least prevent some of you from making the same mistakes that I've done.

Thank you!
I'd also like to thank everyone for their support. It's been incredible to have you rooting for me and I hope that you'll continue on doing so as I keep bringing awesome back!

And the winner is...

A big thank you to all of you who sent in flavors for my odd protein flavor poll. Unfortunately - due to very little voting - there was no winner. Five out of seven flavors each ended up with the same number. The flavors are...

Bacon, Meatball & Cinnamon, Whipped Cream, Saffron and Peanut Butter & Jelly

I'm still sticking with bacon as my personal favorite!

I've just launched a new website for my gym

The gym where I train, Laholms HälsoCenter, has just got a brand new website that I've designed. It's easy to navigate and features everything from group training to nutrition counseling. The site is purely in Swedish, so for those of you who are fluent in my language - go have a look!

Click the image to go to the website

And to all you readers out there: Merry Christmas and an Awesome New Year!

A day at the Fitness Festival 2011 in Gothenburg

This weekend was indeed a good one. Started off with stuffing myself with all the delights I could possibly conquer during the Saturday's pre-christmas festivities (or "julbord" if you prefer). That was accompanied by a 3 hour drive up to Gothenburg where I slept overnight before entering the Fitness arena. With no further delay, let's take a peek at the pictures from the previous Sunday:

As soon as I got in I went straight for the pre-judging -
got in just when the veterans were starting.

After pre-judging I got out for some meet and greet -
here with Sweden's Martin Kjellström

Back to the show and time for finals. All competitors started out
with classic Rocky theme (eye of the tiger) and outfit to go with it.

A fair bit of audience. More than there was at pre-judging.

Veterans time to shine at the finals.

Some weight divisions were shorter in numbers than others.
This guy got a one-man-show!

Mid-show entertainment featured transformers dancing...
oh yeah!

...and a viking (Christer Norman).

...and one of our good ol' bodybuilders came to
show us that he still got it - Johan Oldenmark.

After that I got out for some more meet and greet -
here with Shawn Ray who was over here promoting SmartShake.

Met up with Roddy Benjaminsson, who might just be
the happiest guy on earth.

Ahmad Ahmad was there as well.
Wouldn't be a Fitness Festival without him!

To conclude: Fitness Festival 2011 was awesome!

Bringing Awesome Back will be attending the Fitness Festival in Gothenburg

It's only 4 days until the Fitness Festival here in Sweden starts, and it's a must for every person even moderately interested in bodybuilding or the fitness lifestyle. For the first time I'll have the pleasure of attending this festival. Due to some circumstances and bad planning on my part I'll only be attending the last day, which is Sunday 4th of December. So for those of you who are going and want to have a friendly chat, be sure to look for this guy:

I'll be walking around with a big Bringing Awesome Back
logo on my back. Should be easy enough to spot!

What odd flavor would YOUR protein powder contain?

Pizza, lobster, whiskey, mayonnaise or maybe even butter? What disgusting or odd flavor would you choose in your protein shake?



I had a fun discussion with a friend of mine way back where we talked about various odd (and disgusting) flavors that we'd try out. So, it's time for YOU to add your flavor to the discussion. Simply reply to this post with the most odd/weird/disgusting flavor that you WOULD try (if it ever was marketed as a protein powder). I'll gather up the replies and add a poll later so that we can crown the number one odd flavor!

So, wait no longer! Make yourself heard and add your odd flavor to the upcoming poll!

UPDATE: Voting is over. Find out who won here!

Join me on Facebook

If you haven't already clicked like on Bringing Awesome Back at Facebook it's about time you did! It's an easy way for you to keep yourself up-to-date. Currently I'm doing a segment called Message of the Day - all in good fun.

So, wait no longer! Click here (or the image above) to get to the Facebook page!