Alex

Age: 14
Start weight: 194 pounds
Height: 5’4”
Percentile score: 99.00
The lowdown: An obese 14-year-old with high cholesterol and low self-esteem follows in his older brother’s healthy footsteps and inspires the rest of his traditional Jewish family to change the unhealthy eating habits that have been in his family for generations.
His downfall:  Alex is fed up of being compared to his older brother, who decided at Alex’s age to get healthy and stop eating the unhealthy food his mom prepared. Alex has had high cholesterol for years, and is fed up with being “the fat one in the group”.  His mom, Milena, is a social butterfly who loves to host lavish parties that centre around rich, fatty, traditional Russian Jewish foods. Though Milena knows that change is vital, she is resistant to parting with her fattening staples…after all, how on earth will she make the food taste good? Milena and Adam, Alex’s dad, are both very overweight, and they realize that things need to change drastically for the good of the whole family.
Fitness Goal: Amazing hunt race around Stanley Park.

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