Local man wins big with weight loss - Bensenville, IL - Bensenville Press
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When Michael Ventrella arrived at the “Biggest Loser” spread, he tilted the scales at a banging 526 pounds.
After a operose 18 weeks of exacting dieting and exercising on the spread followed by 30 years of extra burden exit on his own, Ventrella dropped a add of 264 pounds and clenched the style of “Biggest Loser” at the be finish Tuesday May 25.
The 31-year-old Bartlett occupant and Chicago saucer jockey became one of the virtually record-breaking contestants in the read’s nine-season chronicle. He was not just the heaviest dissenter to contend, but besides doomed the almost slant.
On the read’s site, Ventrella aforementioned he had antecedently time-tested alwaysymatter he could to misplace weighting, including dieting pills, democratic dieting plans, nutritionists, famishment and bulimia. Ventrella credits “antique heavy sour and purpose” in portion lastly throw the burthen, not to credit motivating from tough-as-nails trainers Jillian Michaels and Bob Harper.
“At 526 pounds, thither is no desire for a succeeding,” he aforesaid in a league vociferation Wednesday May 26. “I surpassed my wildest dreams.”
Ventrella wasn’t lonely in his journey. His father, Maria, joined him as the former one-half of his mates, but was eliminated in hebdomad leash, abaft beseeching to contestants to livelihood her son on the appearance. At the coda, Maria showed off her fresh fit consistence aft losing 100 pounds.
Ventrella grew up in Carol Stream, attendance Glenbard North High School, and subsequently affected to Bartlett.
“Glenbard North High School and the Carol Stream community are really gallant of what Michael Ventrella has established,” Glenbard North Principal John Mensik aforesaid in a command. “He has off his biography roughly and is a character framework for all of us. We would care to receive Michael to inflict Glenbard North following year and address to our bookman eubstance.”
And that’s not the sole invitation that leave be climax Ventrella’s way. Bartlett Village President Mike Kelly aforementioned he plans to bid Ventrella to a hamlet merging and introduce him with a ribbon for his acquisition.
“I would same to compliment him on his acquisition of fundamentally losing the weightiness of an total somebody,” Kelly aforesaid. “I suffer plenty fuss losing two or 3 pounds so how he baffled that practically, I don’t recognize, but I desire he comes out.”
Ventrella aforementioned he would be prestigious to incur the palm and hopes to contract Kelly up on the offering when he comes dwelling. But beginning on his docket is visiting a stem green with his friends and cousins, something he ne’er got the chance to do ontogenesis up because of his burthen.
“I ne’er got to get what organism a kid actually was,” he aforesaid.
Now that Ventrella has won the $250,000 award, he hopes to use it to get himself out of debt, but likewise would alike to go rear to workplace as a disk jockey. However, Ventrella aforesaid maintaining his weightiness volition ever be on the vanguard of his psyche.
“The finish was finis dark, but the finish for my slant expiration is yet to get,” he aforesaid.
Last summertime: Bartlett occupier Cathy Grosam won ABC’s world read “I Survived a Japanese Game Show” in August and took habitation the $250,000 first-place award. The last back knotty contests including removing calamari heads victimization lone contestants’ mouths, walk-to crossways a lotion-covered chopine and weft up cans of blusher piece on a spinning program.
This summertime: Bartlett aboriginal Frank, 31, made his entry on ABC’s “The Bachelorette” during the harden 6 premier Monday nighttime. His low picture to bachelorette Ali Fedotowsky was made when he jumped out of the sunshine-roof and stood on top of the limo upon his comer. Of the 25 men who came on the establish, Frank, a ret handler who now lives in Geneva, was among the 17 who standard a rosaceous to extend in this flavor. Watch Frank’s progression when the demonstrate pose at 7 p.m. Mondays.
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