{"id":59547,"date":"2026-06-10T11:04:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T03:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=59547"},"modified":"2026-06-10T11:04:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T03:04:03","slug":"how-this-hong-kong-executive-lost-32kg-in-8-months-through-exercise-and-a-diet-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=59547","title":{"rendered":"How this Hong Kong executive lost 32kg in 8 months through exercise and a diet overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At 25, Keizer Cheng was living a typical life as a young Hong Kong professional: working long hours with relentless deadlines and the constant hum of pressure. On paper, he was a successful executive. In reality, his body was buckling under the weight of his choices.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Within a year of starting his career in 2023, Cheng had ballooned to 97kg (214lbs) with a body fat percentage of 37 per cent, and his health was quickly deteriorating. He had trouble sleeping, his knees ached carrying his weight, and his <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">snoring<\/span> rattled through closed doors.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">His wake-up call came in a moment so ordinary it was almost absurd: he was sitting on the toilet, his stomach pressed against him so tightly he felt suffocated.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThat\u2019s it. I can\u2019t live like this any more. Something has to change,\u201d Cheng vividly recalls thinking.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Over the following eight months \u2013 from August 2024 to March 2025 \u2013 he shed 32kg, his weight dropping to 65kg and his body fat percentage to 12.5 per cent.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Now 27, Cheng has gone from struggling to move to completing races. These include the 2026 Standard Chartered Hong Kong half-marathon and four <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Hyrox competitions<\/span>: in Shanghai and Shenzhen in 2025, and in Taiwan and Hong Kong this year.<\/div>\n<div class=\"image-inline-container e1a5rv550 css-1llrc1m e1yqhwb40\" data-qa=\"Component-renderMap-StyledDiv\">\n<div class=\"image-inline caption e1fvabeq0 css-19sk4h4 ea9pn0s0\" data-qa=\"Component-Container\">\n<figure class=\"image-inline caption ea9pn0s1 css-1qeofuq e1gf69pb0\" data-qa=\"ArticleImage-ArticleImageContainer\">\n<div data-qa=\"ArticleImage-handleRenderImage-ImageContainer\" class=\"css-bjn8wh e1gf69pb3\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cheng crosses the finish line of the mixed doubles Hyrox challenge in Taiwan in February 2026 with his friend Jessie. Photo: Keizer Cheng\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.i-scmp.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto\/sites\/default\/files\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/06\/09\/9dcfbd2c-3e48-4beb-be83-10c43fd28bf3_cdad7e35.jpg\" title=\"Cheng crosses the finish line of the mixed doubles Hyrox challenge in Taiwan in February 2026 with his friend Jessie. Photo: Keizer Cheng\"\/><\/div><figcaption data-qa=\"ArticleImage-DescriptionContainer\" class=\"css-1bj5zno e1gf69pb1\">Cheng crosses the finish line of the mixed doubles Hyrox challenge in Taiwan in February 2026 with his friend Jessie. Photo: Keizer Cheng<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3356454\/how-hong-kong-executive-lost-32kg-8-months-through-exercise-and-diet-overhaul?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 25, Keizer Cheng was living a typical life as a young Hong Kong professional: working long hours with relentless deadlines and the constant hum&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[24491,1099,6726,3178,3569,5231,4883,1960,11232],"class_list":["post-59547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-32kg","tag-diet","tag-executive","tag-exercise","tag-hong","tag-kong","tag-lost","tag-months","tag-overhaul","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}