Transgender former WWE star Gabbi Tuft has lifted the lid on the grueling steps she had to take to lose 190 pounds of weight and muscle mass during her transition into a woman.
Tuft, known as Tyler Reks during her first four-year run with WWE, was released from the company in 2012 and retired from competition in 2014.
But, three years after coming out as a transgender woman in February 2021, the 45-year-old recently expressed a desire to return to the ring on social media.
During her initial run, Tuft weighed around 280 pounds and would eat 10,000 calories a day to build a physique that meant she was 'the alpha male of alpha males'.
Now she's revealed the steps she took to go from 'a guy who had dreadlocks down to my butt' - and somebody who drew comparisons to the Mountain from Game of Thrones - to a woman.
'That's who I was. I was the protector. I was the alpha male of alpha males, and everything I did revolved around that,' Tuft told Fox.
'But when I made the decision to medically transition. It was so powerful that I was truly ready to release all of it.
'God is it hard to get rid of that much muscle. It is a chore.
'I was shocked how much muscle I retained. I forced my body to burn muscle with these long extended cardiovascular sessions at high intensity and stayed in keto for a very long time, and I stopped lifting weights. That's the short version.
'It's been a sobering year to six months.' She also admitted that taking estrogen was 'like going through a second puberty.'
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