{"id":751010,"date":"2026-06-21T06:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T06:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/751010\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T06:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T06:10:09","slug":"how-a-100kg-father-struggling-to-keep-up-with-his-4-year-old-lost-27kg-in-6-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/751010\/","title":{"rendered":"How a 100kg father struggling to keep up with his 4-year-old lost 27kg in 6 months"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even now, Ayo Canlas can still vividly recall the elite tennis athlete he was as a student, a time that saw him represent the Philippines in the 2006 Junior Davis Cup. Last year, however, the 37-year-old corporate executive found he was struggling to keep up with a four-year-old.<\/p>\n

This wake-up call came during a family staycation in Singapore in December, when his daughter Arya challenged him to swim the length of the hotel pool with her.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was difficult for me to match her pace,\u201d says Canlas, now a chief financial officer for a consumer appliances company in Singapore. \u201cIn my mind, I was still a top tennis player. In reality, I had no stamina.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pool incident solidified a journey that had begun a few weeks earlier. In October 2025, Canlas had hit his highest weight of 100kg (220lbs), and a medical check-up the following month had revealed he was on a dangerous health trajectory.<\/p>\n

Choosing to make lifestyle changes over taking medication, he worked with a personal trainer for a highly monitored overhaul of his diet and strength training. The regime yielded dramatic results: by May 2026, he had shed 27kg to reach 73kg, cutting his body fat from 30 per cent to 13 per cent.<\/p>\n

\"AA young Ayo Canlas plays tennis in 2011. Photo: Ayo Canlas<\/p>\n

His fall from fitness will be familiar to many. After graduating from college, he kept eating whatever he liked while his physical activity level fell dramatically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even now, Ayo Canlas can still vividly recall the elite tennis athlete he was as a student, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[268474,268472,49,48,2771,408,27960,407,84,60681,18096,128088,268473,120367,2053,268475,3849,1776,82275,32112],"class_list":["post-751010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-100kg","tag-ayo-canlas","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-diet","tag-exercise","tag-father","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-how-to-lose-weight","tag-hyrox","tag-international-competitions","tag-junior-davis-cup","tag-personal-trainer","tag-philippines","tag-shamus-sum","tag-singapore","tag-strength-training","tag-tennis-player","tag-ultimate-performance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}