Many of you know Tyram from his numerous appearances at Southtown Arcade for the KOFXIII Ranbats and the many streams and events that have gone down at RAMnation each Friday over the past many years. This is his success story as to how he lost 100 pounds in less than a year. He hopes his story inspires other gamers out there who are looking to achieve their goals in life. Major thanks to Jenkins Mitchell of Drom's Comics for writing this up and shedding light on this amazing story! - Haunts
Click for Full SizeCheesecake, Evo, and a Bike: How This NorCal Player Lost 100 Pounds in Less Than a Year
I recently had the opportunity to talk to Fairfield, California’s Tyler “Tyram” Ramil, founder of Ramnation, about his amazing weight loss journey he began in August of last year. After Evolution 2011, Tyram watched a replay video of “The Cheesecake Story” and saw himself in a new light. The opening shot of the video shows a side view of a 300-plus pound Tyram sitting down and looking at his phone. “I looked at myself in that video and I saw that I was extremely huge. Like, I looked very bad, and I thought to myself, ‘You know what? I need to change this…’ I went back and looked at previous photos of myself,” said Tyram. He saw things in his appearance that he disliked, and decided to do something to lose the excess weight he saw in himself.
Tyram set a goal for himself to get his weight from 306 pounds down to 200 pounds by Evolution 2012. He dieted in the past, but always ended up getting discouraged and giving up when his weight loss would hit a plateau. This time would be different, and with his diet of choice, the Atkins Diet, and the experience of failed weight loss attempts behind him, ‘Ram understood that diet and exercise might not be enough: he needed to provide incentives for himself.
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