Tag: Healthy weight

Rather be honest and call us fatty to our faces

If we were honest about how we feel about fat people would that make it easier or more difficult for people to lose weight? I can’t help but think that if people viewed the obese in the same way as they do alcoholics or smokers 

Being fat is a self-inflicted handicap.

Being fat is a self-inflicted handicap. But, unlike other handicaps which I imagine occur mostly suddenly, those of us who were or are fat know that the weight piles on gradually and we manage to lie to ourselves about our condition for so long that, 

Being A South African Male

Being SAM, a website decided to South African men so that we can live longer, healthier, more fulfilled lives did a great interview with me. You can read it by following this link. See www.BeingSam.co.za

What I’m getting now is worth so much more to me than what I’ve given up.

Although on separate sides of the pond, my brother Steven and I both excelled at physical endurances today. He completed the Watford Half-Marathon in 1 hour and 58 minutes while I cycled 34km today to The Palmiet River and back to Pringle Bay. Previously cycling 

Know why you want to lose weight before you start.

Know why you want to lose weight before you start. I had to get my thinking clear. Although all the supporters I connected with to help me on this journey contributed, I think the sessions with Cognitive Behavioural Therapist Bradley Drake made the single biggest