Former Fat Guy Natural weight loss · since 1998
The human body is capable of such amazing transformation, and what a wonderful blessing to be the experience. Rob Cooper

Photographic record

The Weight Loss Gallery

Every photo I published, in the order it was taken. No retouching, no flattering angles, no before-and-after taken on the same afternoon.

  • 1989–present
Rob Cooper before, sitting in a chair, at 475 pounds

Before

1989 to 1995, at 400 to 475 pounds. The photos I did not want taken. Three pages.

Rob Cooper after, in a shirt and red tie, at 240 pounds

After

The set I posted when people did not believe the before photos were me.

Rob Cooper on the summit of Kilimanjaro, 2006

Current

Kilimanjaro, Everest base camp, the Men's Fitness shoot. Where it sits now. Every earlier edition is kept in the archive.

About these photographs

Every photograph is filed under the year it was taken, not the year it was published.

Several of the before photographs were taken by other people and only published years later. In a few cases the copy on this page is the only one that still exists, which is why the scans are what they are.

There is no retouching, and no before-and-after pair shot on the same afternoon with different lighting. Where the date is uncertain the caption says so.

One more thing. If you searched for Former Fat Guy Fitness and landed here, these photos are the original former fat guy. The other one has his own page on this site.