Male Body Dysmorphia, Fat Loss & Insane Challenges - Will Tennyson - #848

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the show. My guest today is Will Tennyson. He's a YouTuber and an athlete. Taking a journey from fat to fit is a massive achievement in itself. Will then went on to become one of the best creators of positive fitness and mindset content on the internet. And today we get to discover some of his best lessons from a decade of self-improvement. Expect to learn why Will decided to become morbidly obese for a day and what he learned, which diet allowed him to lose the most weight, his thoughts on the state of male body dysmorphia, what Will thinks of Nicocado Avocado's insane transformation, what Will's mental health journey looks like and much more. There is a bit of a meme of fitness guys, especially on YouTube, kind of taking themselves very seriously or taking themselves very un-seriously. There's either super silly or stoic looking in the mirror with a black and white sepia tone over your video. And Will is just a normal bloke in a relationship, funny, introspective, emotionally aware and jacked and strong. And I love his content. I think he's a great influence on young men and young women. And yeah, there's so much to take away from today. I really hope you enjoyed this one. Don't forget Australia people, I'm coming to your country this November on Wednesday the 6th. I'm in Brisbane on Friday the 8th. I am in Melbourne and on Saturday the 9th. I am in Sydney. Tickets are available right now at chriswilliamson.live.australia. And British people, I'm coming to London for one night only. It is the homecoming for all homecomings. And you can get tickets right now. They're very limited. It's at the Eventim Apollo in London, 3,500 people. But there aren't actually that many tickets left. So you can go to chriswilliamson.live.australia.com for that one. But now, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Will Tennyson.
You became fat for a day. What was that like?

**Will Tennyson** (2:14)
It was a lot more like a trip to the past than I expected it to be.

**Chris Williamson** (2:19)
Because you were fat for more than a day as well previously.

**Will Tennyson** (2:23)
I mean, obviously not to the extent that I was, but the biggest issue that I had growing up as a kid, and I kind of still deal with today, is just like people's perceptions of you, how you think other people see you, and feeling like you're always being watched with everything that you do. And I've been getting better at that, you know, as time goes on. But when I was filming that video, I just, even though I wasn't, that wasn't me, like it scared me.

**Chris Williamson** (2:47)
Could you explain what you did?

**Will Tennyson** (2:48)
Yeah, so I found this company that like, they make obese suits for these medical companies, for like nurses, doctors, to actually put them on, and like to actually understand how to maneuver obese people, like on a bed, off a bed, you know, just to fully understand just like the transportation techniques. So I found that, and you know, I wanted to experience, you know, just what it was like, not even at the weight, because it wasn't an actual weighted thing, but just more at that circumference, and just how hard it is to, you know, get into a car, or just to do anything. And I've done a-

**Chris Williamson** (3:21)
How heavy was the size that you were? Like, what would it be the equivalent of?

**Will Tennyson** (3:25)
600 pounds. Yeah, so I've done a fat suit video before, and it was just like the belly, and I looked pregnant, but this was like, I went full out, got my face done, and I couldn't even fit in my truck. Got an Uber XL, like, you walk into the gym, everyone's looking at you, either like laughing, smiling, or they just only want to make eye contact with you, and then you just feel like you're the spectacle. No one's afraid to point at you, laugh, and it was very, like, you can notice my emotions very much, so just completely, like, I start off joking, like I always do in my videos, like, make it lighthearted, and lighthearted, but with, like, not nothing crazy, but then as the video goes, I start to actually, like, get affected by it. I didn't even notice it until I actually watched the footage back, and I'm like, I really want to get it off. Like, I felt like I was, like, I wanted to, like, rip it off by the end, because it's very much so, like, took me back, which makes me emotional.