Hi, my name's TIM and I am sitting here writing my side of this journey through
weight loss, over 4 stone lighter than I was knowing that if I can do this
anybody can as it is simple and easy and to be honest with you I do not know
why I did not know or was not told some of this easy life changing information.
I come from a family
that is on the big side, both my parents and brothers are on the big side.
Personally I know that I was obese all my adult life or at least the past 25
years. I have used all the excuses under the sun I am big boned, it’s in my
genes, slow metabolism and of course for a lot of men it is the alcohol.
Although I was obese I was also active with golf, skiing, playing refereeing
and coaching rugby so I was fit but overweight. Some weekends I would even take
part in two games of rugby and 18 holes of golf without too much bother, and I
was, in fact doing significantly more exercise than I do now because I no
longer play. The simple fact is I am now eating more food than I was two years
ago and still enjoy those chips in the canteens when I choose to eat them but
learning what I know has been a real lesson.
I would say I was a fairly typical bloke
and although I
enjoyed eating food, the majority of the
time I used to treat food as fuel and did not really pay too much attention to
what I was eating or when. My job was, and still is one
where I travel a lot and just pick up food as and when. The problem with
traveling is that on many occasions it is what is available (yes another excuse
just crept in see how easy it is) rather than eating what you would like; eating
in canteens where the choice is the convenient deep fried or oven baked pre-prepared
food that seems to be the norm, although I can say there are a few out there
that provide some good food.
As with many people who travel for work I would rather get
up early, get the job done and get home, so on many occasions I would just leave
the house with no breakfast or grab something from the cupboard on the way out
of the door to eat when I had a moment.
Perhaps the honest answer is that I did not really want to get up – and
would rather spend an extra 10 minutes in a warm bed (especially on a cold
winters morning) than to have breakfast.
The average day would then continue in much the same way: arrive on site get the job done and get home
and eating and drinking would only happen if it was convenient or there was a
natural gap in the job. Then eventually as
things progressed during the day it may be a quick visit to a vending machine
for any of those delights that usually range from the cold rolls, sandwiches
Chocolate bars or maybe even a pie or something similar (if the factory had a
microwave in their coffee room) but more often than not it would be chocolate
bars and then when I got home it would probably end up being one large meal maybe
even a take away. In fact it has to be
said that quite often I would only have one meal per day.
Looking back now over
4 stone lighter than I was I know where
I was making my mistakes and why I was obese. The simple facts are I am now
eating more food than I was two years ago and still enjoy those chips in the
canteens when I choose to eat them but learning what I know has been a real
lesson. For instant on some occasions now I
will deliberately stop and choose to have a bacon sandwich or something similar as it
will be the best thing for me during that day.
I have to confess over the years I have not personally
attended any weight loss classes as being a classic bloke again I see this as
the realm of women and having seen the ones held at the local hall next to the
rugby club I have only ever seen women attending. I know weight loss classes
are available to both men and women but they appear to always be targeted at
women, why? Saying that I have read a lot of books and magazine articles on weight
loss over the years. In the past, I have
agreed to do the same diet as my partner while she attended the classes. I saw this
as cost saving, 2 for the price of 1, which I bet goes on in many households. I
think we have done every possible diet out there and some in between over the
years with varying results. I found most of the diets very difficult to do due
to having to find food, which fits into what is sometimes quite a very
restrictive regime. People who stock vending machines or motorway services stock
what sells not what the latest diet tells you to eat.
It’s mid-January, that time of year when Christmas and the
new year is over and the house is full of the left over excess of the seasons
over indulgence. Were ever you look
there are the nice little treats that have been bought with those familiar
words “just in case” or “we always have those” yet they’ve never been eaten
during Christmas for the last 5 years.
Then out of the blue my partner announces she wants to lose
weight for the party. Two things immediately spring to mind “what party” and “oh
no here we go again”. After getting the
answer that there is going to be a large family party in the summer that
everybody is going to attend. The next thing I start recounting is all the
weird and wonderful meals of the past diets when we were making swede chips and
trying to convince ourselves that they taste as good as the real thing. I can
confirm they do not but when you are desperate you will do strange things. No
Carbs the diet that allows you to eat all the protein you want but in the same
breath bans the bacon sandwich (this is criminal). Then there low fat, cabbage
soup, maple syrup and the list goes on and all I know is that for the next few
months eating will become a chore not a pleasure and driving up and down the
motorway trying to find a maple syrup drink is impossible.
The question is what
will it be this time? Even while
thinking this is another futile attempt to lose weight I agree to join my
partner on the next attempt. Over the previous years I think most diets have
been tried and tested by us and to be fair we have lost weight when doing them
but without fail we have slowly but surely put the weight back on, plus some.
The next thing that happened was we came up with an amazing
eating method which has developed and changed along the way as our research,
experimenting and knowledge of bodies requirements has improved. The most amazing thing is that we have both
lost loads of weight and I am now in the normal weight range and I am never
going back to the size I was before as I now have the answer.
To put this into context, at the start of this journey I was
bigger than 85% of the men in my age group in the UK. I am now 85% smaller.
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