Perhaps I’m late to the game on this one, but has anyone heard of this Gabbi Tuft character? No? Well, let me introduce you to her …

She was a he years ago in the form of a 280-pound WWE star. He transitioned to a she a few years back, and now she is penning a tell-all for Business Insider on just how hard it was to go from giant male wrestler to tiny female fitness coach.

“When I was a male WWE wrestler, I weighed 280 pounds, and my body fat was between 6% and 8%,” Tuft wrote this week. “Now, as a female fitness coach, I weigh 187 pounds, and my body fat is about 18%.”

Former WWE star Tyler Reks is now Gabbi Tuft

My God. What a jarring before and after. Goodness.

Before she was Gabbi Tuft — the female fitness coach and trans TikTok star (that’s original!) — he was WWE star Tyler Reks.

Reks competed in WWE from 2008-12, retired, and then transitioned to female in 2021. Wild decade. I don’t know much about WWE, but this Reks fella seemed pretty badass:

That’s all in the past, though. Now, it’s full steam ahead as Gabbi Tuft, which, as she writes, wasn’t the easiest thing to achieve seeing as Tyler was a 280-pound UNIT.

“To speed up the muscle reduction in my upper body, I stopped doing resistance training for my lower body,” she wrote. “To make my body burn muscle, I did cardio on the treadmill for a minimum of an hour daily. I would walk on an incline, holding my heart rate between 150 and 160 beats per minute. Some days, I would do this workout twice.

“Muscle mass started to peel away quickly once I started taking this approach. It was incredible to watch. When I started transitioning, I wore a size 14 to 16 in pants — now I’m a 10 or smaller. I used to wear size XXL or XXXL women’s tops; now, I wear larges and mediums.”

XXXL?! Didn’t even know they made such a thing. Congrats, I guess?

What a start to 2024.