Henny Harjusola lost over 90 pounds – that’s how he did it

Henny Harjusola has made big changes in her life.

Harjusola tells Iltalehti that he has lost more than 90 kilos of weight in ten years. In the last couple of years, about 50 kilos of pounds have been eliminated. The road to this point has not been easy in any way, as Harjusola says he has struggled with a challenging eating disorder for his entire life.

– I’ve lost weight many times in my life. The first time I lost about 60 pounds on my own without any help. So it was a very tight diet, calorie counting and discipline, Harjusola recalls.

Harjusola tells his weight for years. Initially, the desire to gain a variety of surgical procedures and beauty operations was the motivator for weight loss. However, Harjusola was told to lose weight before the operations.

With hard dietary diets, Harjusola got himself in order to make operations possible. However, keeping the weight down with a tight diet was not a sustainable or healthy solution, and eventually the weight gained back.

– I had been fighting overweight for a long time and wondering what I could do about it. I was wondering if I have a terrible body weight throughout my life, then it will start to affect health at some point. It’s not simply healthy.

Initially, Harjusola even thought about reducing the stomach or a stomach bypass surgery. In the end, Harjusola went to the doctor and inquired about the possibility of Ozempic.

– The doctor in question had not previously prescribed Ozempic for anyone, but he had read a lot of good patient stories about it. He wrote a recipe for me, but at first I didn’t take it.

Harjusola wondered for a long time whether he wanted to make a lifestyle change with medication.

– I even thought if this was a bit of cheating. However, about two years ago I started using Ozempic.

The fillers off

Starting using Ozempic was an eye -opening experience for Harjusola. Harjusola says after three months of use that he understood how much the medicine helps him make more sensible solutions for food.

– The biggest thing after starting the medicine was when the eating disorder and food noise inside my head almost stopped. When the noise disappeared, it became easier to lose weight and control.

– However, I did not go to this because I want to lose weight, but to be the desire to be a healthy person.

After starting Ozempic, Harjusola understood how much eating disorder thoughts and food struggle had caused him anxiety and consumed him.

– I have gone so much time in the past and coping with those things. Before, at the restaurant, I was already thinking that I had to go home through the store because I don’t dare to eat as much as I would like. No longer is that.

Harjusola has received help from his friend, coach and somebody from Kerttu Rissanen, a coach and social training.

– Together we have learned that I do not deny anything from myself. Gourmet moments, wine -making with friends, and restaurant dinners still belong to my life. Sometimes it is normal to visit a restaurant and wine, sometimes in the gym and at work. It has been the most difficult to understand for me in the past.

Harjusola wants to emphasize that weight loss is not just due to the drug.

– Ozempic does not work by taking the medicine and losing weight, but making the work and the decision you put in your mouth. Yes, you can also over -eat with Ozempic and keep yourself at the same weight, it’s a fact.

– However, I feel that massive overweight is a disease as an eating disorder and it is wrong that these would not be treated with medicines as it should.

With the weight loss, Harjusola has also made changes in its appearance. Harjusola removed all his lip fillings during the summer.

– When my face was rounder, the bigger lips were really good for the whole. As a result of the weight loss, I started to feel that my lips were too big in relation to my face, Harjusola describes.

– I have removed all other fillers from the face. I no longer have fillers on my face anywhere except for the temples, he adds.

New challenges

This fall, Harjusola is also facing new things in the field of work. For the first time, Harjusola is a judge of the Miss Finland competition. Harjusola is surprised by the pest but very grateful.

Harjusola has been making social media content focused on beauty for ten years. At the same time, he has also worked as a hairdresser and entrepreneur. As a Miss Judge, Harjusola wants to focus on the whole, the media skills of Miss candidates, and see who could do on international stages as well.

Harjusola says he has received some messages about his judge. Anonymous commentators wondered why a transgender woman to the Miss Finland competition was wanted.

Harjusola has a neat answer to the commentators.

– I feel that my transgender is more medical history than anything else for me. I do not believe that I have been involved in the jury only for the sake of transgender, but also because I can look at the whole and I have an extremely great know -how of media and beauty, says Harjusola.

– In my opinion, I often forget that I have built a big career from scratch. Still get stuck to being transgender. It is a stamp that always slides on the face and is the only thing that matters, Harjusola concludes.