How an influencer in China lost 60kg in 5 years without weight-loss drugs or crash diets
‘Eat better, be more conscious and move more,’ says Shanghai-based German influencer Thomas Derksen, who weighed around 140kg five years ago
Scroll through Shanghai-based Thomas Derksen’s Instagram feed from the oldest post to the newest and you will notice a metamorphosis in the Mandarin-speaking German influencer.
In the early days, there were a lot of photos of him enjoying food: a slap-up English breakfast, cookies while working at his laptop, a rich birthday cake in 2018 and what looks like an enormous bacon sandwich in 2019.
Then there is a shift, with fewer photos of heavy meals and more photos that record him seemingly shrinking. The hefty young man grows slimmer and more active: kayaking on a lake, walking his dog and swimming.
“Staying at home gave me time to do my research. All the information I needed was available online. There are many free resources. I collected what I found and put it into practice. Some ideas worked for me, some did not.”
