Bigkiwi here out on parole :)

[BIGKIWI]

Hi guys haven't been around for a few years now but hey good to be back. Hope everyones training hard and thanks heaps to everyone who wrote to me on the inside :) I will be hanging around alot more from now and it is so good to have some proper food and weights

[diamond]

welcome back big guy.

[biggurl27]

Hi ya, nice to hear you are home :nod:

[BIGKIWI]

dam it feels good so much food yum down to a skinny 270pound arghhhhh lost 30 pound inside Had my first workout with weights today wow alot different to what we were doing in side. We had a couple of bars which went up to 90kg all welded together though and then some dumbells you would hang on the ends, we then would get someone to stand ontop as well hahaah it was so dodgey and dangerous but what you had to do

[IronGame]

Good to see you back here and FREE

[biggurl27]

a skinny 270pound arghhhhh lost 30 pound

:shock: That is still massive mate, not to you may be

[mr natural]

how did you stay so big inside? what sort of food do you get?i'm imagining you must have had protein powder and extra food as you would not be able to maintain a decent size on 3 square carb based meals a day.

did you get to work out most days ect??

must be good to get out,lookout body builders on stage!

[BIGKIWI]

You can buy milk powder through the shopping so I would buy 30-40litres of that a week better than nothing anyway. Oh yeah peoples limbs in my unit went mysteriously missing to :)

[mr natural]

lol,get your fix of meat!

[blairandkelly]

good stuff bigboy glad you gettin back to normality at last

[Mikey6]

Good to meet ya Bigkiwi.

Nice job on the web site, real cool.

8)

[BIGKIWI]

Well it looks like it hit the news today yeah at least they were gentle

Bodybuilder freed from jail

EMILY WATT - The Dominion Post | Saturday, 26 July 2008

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Champion bodybuilder Justin Rys would have been a curiosity in Rimutaka Prison.

Even surrounded by other large men, the muscled 120-kilogram former Mr New Zealand and Mr Oceania would have stood out in a crowd.

He is polite and well-spoken, and has spent his lag studying - he completed four diplomas, gaining A and A+ grades - and continuing to work out, often asking other prisoners to stand on a bar to bolster the weights.

Rys was freed this week after serving 2 1/2 years of a 7 1/2-year sentence for importing more than 200 litres of the drug fantasy - a central nervous system depressant popular with nightclubbers as well as with bodybuilders, who use it to counter the effects of steroids and help them sleep.

He was jailed in 2006, admitting 11 charges of importing fantasy, of which he said he consumed up to a litre a week. He also admitted one count of money laundering, relating to more than $85,000 found in a friend's bank account.

Initially he was jailed for 10 1/2 years, but this was reduced on appeal. The court was told he had a severe heart condition and a mental disorder called megarexia that meant he saw his bulging muscles as small.

Rys said he wanted to start with a clean slate. "I really want to have a new start. I just want people to know I've worked really hard."

As well as studying and undergoing drug counselling, he has also told his story in a book about fantasy addiction in an effort to educate others.

He tried to keep up the gym training, but struggled to get enough to eat to maintain his physique and was forced to improvise weights, using big prisoners to bolster his bench press. He said that in some ways, going to prison was harder on his family than it was on him, "but I wouldn't recommend it as a holiday destination".

He praised his partner, Marina Hiroki, who opened a store in Petone late last year to sell his clothing label Convict Gear and health supplements. The T-shirts and hoodies, emblazoned with a muscle-bound man breaking out of bars, have proved popular, with clients reportedly including lawyers, policemen and even a mayor.

A percentage of the proceeds from the business goes to the Life Education Trust and Project GBH - an international drug addiction support group.

Now he plans to work in the shop with Ms Hiroki, and maybe open a gym. "I'm just wanting to move on with my life."

It was Rys' first application for parole.

[MasterTel]

Welcome back, big fella! Great article in the paper this morning, and I bet getting parole last week was the best birthday present you've ever had?!

I'm sure it won't take long for you to put that 30lb back on - perhaps by having less of all that milk powder and eating more of the animal that produced it! :wink:

It's great to have 'BIG KIWI' on board for this year's NZFBB Nationals here in Wellington - plus I can probably do with an extra tanner backstage if you need something to do! :pfft:

[auck_builder]

good on you man , keep us updated on how your training goes

[rotangs on]

Welcome back man! Glad to hear you're out and back on the scene!

[Pseudonym]

Oh yeah peoples limbs in my unit went mysteriously missing to :)

Anyone seen the new advertising for Auckland Zoo? It shows a lion, and the caption, "His mother's eyes. His father's nose. His neighbour's leg." :pfft:

[BIGKIWI]

haven't seen it bro haha sounds fun

[Luigi]

hey bigkiwi always impressed when i see pics of you, MASSIVE mate!!

good to hear your out and moving on with life.

[Optimass]

Hi Big Man -- I thought the article wasn't too bad considering. Had a friend in a similar situation about 6 years ago ... am familiar the challenges you face. but it looks like your going to have a positive affect on a lot of people as a result .... Credit to you and your wife bro, and hope to see you back on top.

I'm interested to hear a bit about your megarexia - will make a good thread on this forum.

[BIGKIWI]

Thanks bro I can tell you most bodybuilders probably have it but maybe not as bad as I do. I could be 1000kg shredded but you can never ever be big enough. Just think of a reverse anorexic and you have it bro

[Optimass]

Thanks bro I can tell you most bodybuilders probably have it but maybe not as bad as I do. I could be 1000kg shredded but you can never ever be big enough. Just think of a reverse anorexic and you have it bro

I can relate to that :nod:

[Luigi]

is megarexia similar to body dismorphic disorder ?

[biggurl27]

I think megarexia use to be referred to BDD Luigi as it didn't have a name, however, there are some similarities.

Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) (previously known as Dysmorphophobia and sometimes referred to as Body dysmorphia) is a psychiatric disorder in which the affected person is excessively concerned about and preoccupied by an imagined or minor defect in his or her physical features. The sufferer may complain of several specific features or a single feature, or a vague feature or general appearance, causing psychological distress that impairs occupational and/or social functioning, sometimes to the point of complete social isolation.It is estimated that between 1%-2% of the world's population meet all the diagnostic criteria for BDD.

Whereas, six percent of all men who train suffer from megarexia, the opposite of anorexia. No treatment for this illness is currently available. More common than we think. I'm sure we all know someone.

[Optimass]

quite an interesting topic .... the common symtpoms associated with anorexia are disproportionate body image (think they are too large), and as a result malnutrition / under- eating ... where as both disorders have a tendancy to overtrain as a result.

don't mean to over simplify --- I know there is a lot of other psychological similarities ...

[BIGKIWI]

Yep there deffinately is similarities. It also is how you see yourself rather than how others see you. You always seem small in your own eyes no matter if others nearly fall over because of your size.