Very interesting article about Dr. Tro:
lohud.com
At 5-foot-11 and 345 pounds, Dr. Tro Kalayjian was big. Very big.
He knew better.
He was a doctor.
Rosette, pregnant with their third child, had always been accepting of her husband.
“(But) she turned to me, thinking out loud, (and asked), ‘The way you’re going, am I going to lose you?’ “ Kalayjian recalled.
That was Dec. 7, 2015; three years and 157 pounds ago.
“My wife really started this journey. I owe it to her,” said Kalayjian, 35.
The journey, which will include crossing the finish in Sunday’s Orangetown Recreation Santa Claus 5K Run, has seen Kalayjian reshape not just his life but also his career.
Kalayjian, the chief resident at a hospital in New Jersey three years ago, has since dedicated himself professionally to making others fit. By February or March, the Palisades resident will open a practice in Tappan.
And there’s humor in the site he has chosen.
“I wanted the formerly obese weight-loss doctor to change the previous chocolate store into a weight-loss practice,” he said.
Early heavy yearsKalayjian, who lost 80 pounds in a year without exercise by severely restricting his intake of carbohydrates and limiting the hours he ate, wasn’t a guy who’d never had a weight problem and suddenly found himself fat.
He was 5-foot-6 and 200 pounds at the start of high school. By the end, he was 5-10 and the same 200.
At 15, he decided to lose weight to help himself. And he decided to study medicine after high school to help his family. Many members were obese — some suffering from diabetes and high blood pressure.
 Buy PhotoRockland doctor and former Tappan Zee High School cross-country runner, Tro Kalayjian, photographed running in his Tappan neighbothood on Friday, December 7, 2018. (Photo: John Meore/The Journal News) |
