The Six-K Club

Yesterday i received what could be the worst news of my life, Ella, Celine’s daughter & the most gorgeous & loving & fun baby was diagnosed last night with cancel. A large, “baseball sized”, tumor was found on her liver, she is in the hospital surrounded by friends & family who love and support Ella & her parents throughout the day & night. Please say a prayer for Ella & let’s hope she pulls through this bump, i know you can do it my Ella !

Afrah AbdulRaheem

19 years old

First joined Six-K Club Saturday April 7th 2007

n the early ages of my life I was never happy with whom I am. I have always been overweight. I never saw myself thin or beautiful.

In school I was always called fat and this made life hard for me as a child. I was bullied because of my weight and children would always laugh at me. Furthermore in sports classes I was different than the other kids, I couldn’t jump, run, or even enjoy sports games because they were simply hard to do for a person my size.

When the weekend comes I would go out and enjoy myself with my friends for a good dinner but this makes it hard for me because passing by the tables to reach our table is annoying, yet in the cinema I would avoid sitting in the middle because I would get embarrassed by passing on the people and squashing their feet. I would rather stay at home.

I have always hated shopping because I couldn’t find anything looking good on me or anything that fits me. I also hated family gatherings because in our tradition we would sit and eat on the floor, however I would sit and think to myself “how would I get up again” I found it hard for me.

As an overweight child who grew up fat, I have always struggled with my weight and tried too many diets to lose weight and at once it seemed to me that nothing will work, until I have joined the Six-K Club. All the things that I hated have changed by my perception. The Six-K Club has changed my life I felt more comfortable with whom I am and had more confidence with what people thought of me. In the Six-K club I found motivation, inspiration and a goal for living a happy life as well as meeting new friends.

Since I first joined the Six-K Club a lot of things have changed. I have lost more than 20 kilos in that I have never lost before from my experience in diets. 

Six-K was not only a place to achieve my goal it was a place that was different to me, the wonderful people I meet, the respect I found and the care I got.

After everything else I would like to thank Jasem Al Zeraei for his success in building the Six-K Club and his support.

Come on people come and enjoy, get inspired, have fun and live a happy life with the www.Six-k.com and you will have the opportunity to listen to the real story live from Jasem Al Zeraei.

As you might have noticed there has been a lack of myself and the group to go ahead and organize a walk or event or any activity. I have always concealed this lack of effort to work commitments or life’s errands, but the truth is that I have been shy to appear again in front of my audience.

I have gained weight, around 10 to 15 kilos, not sure to be exact because I refuse to weigh myself.

The reason for the weight gain can stem from my U.S. trip to a shoulder injury to plain ignorance and that thought when you’ve lost weight, “I’ve done it before I can do it again” mentality which really sneaks up on you.

Yesterday a club member gave me words of courage and might that I have never heard before, he repeated the same words that I uttered to him when he first showed up to walk with us and now he’s 10 kilo’s lighter. He made me so upset that I have started to eat super healthy and started to seriously get real. I have since worked out and I can tell you that I feel like its 2001 and I’m in my apartment in Arizona determined as ever to do something about it. I have told many people who I keep close to my heart and who I love openly that I’m doing something about and I have not really, but this time It’s personal, it’s my word against me and it’s my word to essentially, the whole world.

Two minutes ago, Afrah informed me something beautiful. The shy girl with a heart of gold started her journey with 131 kilos, now she’s a slimmed down 98 and on her way to her goal of 68.  I am proud more than ever, I am ecstatic more than ever, I am psyched more than ever; I am humbled more than ever, I am a happy man more than ever, I am hopeful more than ever; I am The Six-K Club more than ever before.

Join me this summer in my and our and the whole worlds quest to spread the good words of health, happiness and life fatless. With you I have shared my most personal experiences and with you all …

I will share my new weight loss story.

Friends,

I have ordered bracelets to be made for the club, the bracelets will go on sale to raise money for our club in order for us to continue spreading our message. I have ordered some made in Hot Pink (for the ladies) and some in Navy Blue (for the boys). They will be 3 KD each and i hope you all can pick one up for yourself and someone you love, like always all proceeds go into our “Donations” jar that we used to print t-shirts, stickers, cards and keep our site going. Thank you for your support !

 *the bracelets are embossed with The Six-K Club and filled with white ink, they look great !

Dear Friends,

For the past few months I have noticed a slow decline in attendance, I don’t know weather it is because of the nature of everything in life or just plain nature (weather, time, work, other priorities etc)

I decided to stop having a set time for our walks and going back to basics, when we first started Six-K we used to send out an email and give a 1 or 2 day notice on when/where! It was exciting, it was spontaneous and people seriously loved it, also it gave me the ability to interact more with the members.

I hope this decision does not turn people off, but Calvin and I have been speaking about this issue for quiet some time and we both feel that with everything that we have endured this must be one of the biggest decisions we have taken thus far, nevertheless our hopes in “going back to basics” as I have dubbed it earlier in my message is our true hope to achieving bigger successes and making peoples dreams only come closer to being true.

With much love, respect, support, and admiration

I will be “randomly” emailing you soon!

Friends,

Six-K meet tommorow morning will be cancelled until further notice, thanks a lot.

Friends,

How are you all? I hope everything is well over there. I am in Phoenix Airport right now on my way back to Kuwait, the weather is gorgeous here but I hear that Kuwait is a bit on the warmer end of the spectrum for the past couple of days. I have taken full advantage of my “vacation” and it has reflected in kilos gained from this trip, but as always they will be off in a week or two.

I hope you are all ready for a great summer and fun times with Six-K, I have noticed that lately the numbers of attendence has dramatically dropped. I couldn’t tell you weather the drop is attributed to the hour or day of the scheduled walk but neverthless you should all know that whatever we need to do on our side to get more people to join us, we will definatly oblige. I hope you all atleast come and say Hi the next time we do meet, i miss you all and i look forward to inpisring myself and thousands of others with you.

Love,

Jasem

Today is the first time i try spinning class. Elliot’s mom is an aerobics instructor here in Arizona and i went to her gym to try it out. They turn off the lights and play loud music, it’s really great ! if your gym provides a spinning class i highly recommend it.

I’ll be back soon, miss you all !

Hello friends!

I hope all is well i’m back in Arizona after a lovely trip to Las Vegas ! tommorow morning i will be heading to New York for the first time in my life and i’m looking forward to it ! Keep up the good work and don’t worry about the weather, if it’s that bad then stay home and be safe. Calvin can be contacted at 9639232. Caloo Gracias.

And thanks everyone who attended the walk!

Friends,

 I will leaving Kuwait for a long due vacation tommorow and won’t be back for 3 weeks. In the meantime our walks are still the same time (fridays at 10:00 a.m.) Calvin will be there to lead you on. I hope you all show up and enjoy the beautiful weather we have been experiencing the past few days. Caloo my man if you need me, you have the numbers, the email & the B,Berry.

 See you all soon, love you.

It’s my 27th Birthday this Friday i was born on March 14, 1981! So i will ask you all for 1 thing, please come out and let’s have a great walk this Friday!

Friday: 10 a.m. - Gulf Road (Salwa Hall Parking Lott)

A very close friend of mine today told me that he was very critical of the movie created by Kuwait University “carpe diem”, and that his views where shared by many of his friends. When i asked why? he said that it basically showed who Jasem was and his accomplishments and not shown the accomplishments of the club and it’s members. Before i got the chance to explain myself, he had to go.

This is my explanation:

I was approached by a group of students at Kuwait University who wanted to basically create a mini film and they needed it to be based on a character, and they chose me. When i sat with them they had told me that it needed to be emotional and basically i needed to act, hence the way i was talking is VERY unlike how i talk normally. What i said was 100% true, how i said wasn’t, i wanted to be very close to the viewer, hence making it more emotional. I agreed to participate in the project and i really think they did a great effort and a wonderful job. But, I will say this and i know i have said it before, without each member there would not be a club called The Six-K Club and no one would know who Jasem is or was. I really could give a damn if i was the “founder” or “creator” or whatever you want to call me. All i intended for this club is to get people off their sofas and come join me for a walk and thank god we have worked miracles & wonders. I really am proud of the group, i really believe in the club and it’s abilities to put a stamp, a positive one, on peoples lives.

This is my message to people who are critical, just for the sake of being critical:

Yes the movie did highlight my accomplishments and yes it might have taken me into the spotlight and not the club, but that’s besides the point. The club was founded after it’s founder and now it’s founder is only a member of the club and NEVER the other way around. I want you all to know that yes i am proud of what i have accomplished and i don’t like to keep it a secret because talking about it motivates me and gives me a reason not go back to my old ways. I want to thank you for all your criticism and your comments but i want you also to know that this group of people who really care about one another isn’t going anywhere, this group is not a man or a woman but a collection of all, we are the people who makes each one of us proud in his/ her own right and one day all of Kuwait will come to recognize the achievements of a few young men and women who decided to stop living in the dark and walk out to see the light.

They say every weight loss story has a start, we all got our start HERE.

http://tri-laszlo.blogspot.com

Laszlo Somogyi is joining us in our walks & runs! maybe we can learn a thing or two from him, Welcome to Six-K Laszlo.

Guys, thanks for showing up today’s walk was awesome! I loved the weather and the time! 10:00 a.m. on a weekend is much better than 5:00 on a weekday!

Let’s try to ALL make it next week, we need the old Six-K’ers back! Fahad, Yousef, Farah, Neil (1 day hopefully), Fawaz, Abdulla, Sara, if you I forgot anyone I’m truly sorry, but you know what i’m talkin’ about!

Miss You !

I’m sure there are many blogs, sites whatever you want to call it out there that have millions of hits, but it really is amazing that a small blog out of tiny Kuwait in a matter of almost a year get this many site hits, it’s awesome. I love you and i hope you all know were in this together and the word we spread everyday puts a smile on someone face someone in this vast world, we are the voices of those who are quiet, shy, depressed and sad but we also are there hope, chance, aspiration and friends! Let’s all continue in our quest to change someone’s life for the better! I love you all.

Starting this Friday onwards, were going to meet at the Salwa Hall parking lott, just like before (Parking Lott right after Hard Rock Cafe) and please ask Ali Al Ghanim to squeeze us into his VERY busy schedule.