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Alice Yan

A doctor in central China has caused astonishment by losing 25kg in just 42 days before winning a slew of honours in a bodybuilding competition.
Wu Tiangen, 31, was the only doctor to take part in the Tianrui Cup Fitness and Bodybuilding Match held in southern Guangdong province in January.
Wu, who is 182cm tall and weighs in at 73.5kg, won the champion titles in the newcomer and fit models groups as well as the most popular participant, according to the contest organiser Tianrui Culture, the People’s Daily reported.
Wu is a surgeon at the Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University in central Hubei province.

He said bodybuilding was part of his job because he mainly deals with obese patients and helps them lose weight through surgery.
The surgeon said he has not always been fit due to lack of exercise and irregular eating habits. He was diagnosed with a light fatty liver in 2023 and his weight reached 97.5kg last year.
As his health deteriorated Wu to take action to keep himself fit and healthy.
“If I cannot save myself, how can I save others?” he was quoted as saying.

Wu drew up a plan to “shed fat and increase muscle” over a short period, this included exercising for at least two hours a day and getting six hours of sleep.
He rises at 5.30am every day and does an hour of aerobic exercise before going to work. After work, he exercises for another hour.
Details of his diet were not revealed in the report.
Ahead of competitions Wu steps up his exercise routine to four times a day.
His coach Shi Fan, a top Chinese athlete who won the Overall Fit Model championship at the IFBB World Fit Model Championships in Lithuania last year, praised him.

“Wu’s training intensity exceeds that of many professional athletes,” said Shi.
The surgeon said his transformation from a “fatty” to a “Mr Bodybuilding” could serve as a good example for his patients, by enhancing their trust and compliance with scientific weight-loss theory.
The doctor has helped about 100 people successfully reduce their weight in recent years.
He suggested slimmers adopt a healthy lifestyle, which involves adequate sleep, a scientific diet, regular exercises and a relaxed mindset.
“You should make a long-term plan to lose weight and insist on it,” said Wu. “I do not advocate drastic, short-term methods which require eating very little.”


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