“During the time of the coronavirus, I couldn’t be who I wanted to be for a long time. It didn’t work well for my system, both mentally and physically. Things had to change, but I couldn’t do it on my own,” Willy says. He asks a dietician for help. “Other people know how to handle your body, but I don’t.”
Willie has lost a chunk of health in his youth until he goes to a fast food chain during a children’s party. “I really enjoyed McDonald’s mayonnaise and was allowed to eat another kid’s mayonnaise in addition to my bowl. The birthday girl’s mother saw that and said, ‘Don’t you know how fat it’s going to make you?’ I was completely amazed, because how could food make you fat? I had no idea there was a link between your weight and what you put in your mouth.”
Today the musician is strict with himself. “Sometimes I think it’s a bit extreme of me, but these days I try to separate food from my social life. Going out to dinner with friends, I don’t want to do that anymore. When you go to a restaurant, it’s the starter , main course, dessert. Maybe people will have a drink.”
But with a six-pack on the Men’s health appearing is not the goal. “He would be sick, but I’d rather grow old healthy and fit than be on the cover of a magazine.”
