Starving To Be Fat

Marco Girgenti is 43 years of age and resides in Toronto, Canada.

Marco dropped out of school at the age of 16 to pursue a career as a professional tennis player. After winning a few tournaments, he was sent to a sports camp to serve as Tennis Clinician. Shortly after learning that an opportunity was formulating to have Marco enter the qualifying rounds of the Canadian Open (against the likes of Borg, McEnroe, Connors), he sustained a career-ending injury. When Marco was 10 years of age, his sister (then 16) died, and when he reached 17, his father also died.

Turning then to music, Marco quickly became a sought after studio musician and composer/arranger. As a result of this change in lifestyle, now sedentary, Marco began to gain weight. His 15-year career earned him numerous awards in the arts. He did not receive any type of formal schooling in music, recognizing it was a gift freely given to him. He conducted in New York City, wrote music for the world's top figure skaters, commercials, television themes and served as composer/arranger on over 20 albums. He has been the chief arranger and composer on 3 Covenant Award winning albums as well as a Juno® award, and has served as Music Director/Director of Worship in 2 churches. The ability to write for an entire orchestra just seemed to be an innate capability. In 2006, Marco received a letter from Ennio Morricone, the foremost composer of film music in the world, praising Marco's work.

Marco married, then subsequently separated from his then wife of 13 years. The marriage produced a son who is now 16 years of age. Marco took on the mantle of full time father to his boy, who was diagnosed as autistic. Raising a special needs child caused Marco to see the world from a different, perhaps simpler perspective. Known for his communication skills and quick mind, Marco was now forced to change the way he communicated in order to be able to converse with his son.

There is now little doubt in his mind that the death of his father, the pressures of a failed marriage and raising an autistic child all contributed to his substantial weight gain. Marco, once a lean and elite athlete, was now grossly overweight, weighing in at well over 300 lbs, sporting size 54 pants and pre-diabetic with a body fat at 49%.

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