Pinay tops DH50,000 weight loss challenge in UAE

A Filipina sales manager bested nearly 1,500 rivals in a 60-day weight-loss contest organized by a local gym in the United Arab Emirates, winning Dh50,000 to boot.

Jocelou Tubosa, 32, lost slightly over 10 kilos in 60 days and in the process beat 1,488 fellow contestants in the UAE Fat to Fit challenge organized by Gold’s Gym.

 

Jocelou Tubosa, 2013 Fat to Fit winner.Photo courtesy of Golds Gym UAE

Tubosa started the competition weighing 74 kg last Nov. 15, but tipped the scales at 64 kg two months later, UAE news site Gulf News reported.

“I want to tell everyone who is fighting fat that it is an amazing feeling to lose weight. I feel so good about myself,”Tubosa told Gulf News Xpress.

She said she kept herself motivated with the prize money to lose weight via exercise and dieting.

“I would hit the gym after office without going home and spent nearly three hours daily. The exercise was a mix between cardio and weight lifting plus some group exercises like body combat and body attack,” she said.

Tubosa, who arrived in the UAE in 2005, said she plans to use the money to build a house in the Philippines. The report indicated she won Dh50,000.

The Fat to Fit challenge attracted 1,488 gym members who were measured on the initial and final days,

For now, Tubosa said she wants to maintain a healthy lifestyle to keep the weight off.

“I am determined to keep fit and follow a regular exercise regime. As they say, the biggest wealth is health, and I want to live by that principle,” she said. — KBK, GMA News