I was losing a meaningful amount of weight for the first time in my entire life and all I had to do was exactly that which all of the experts up until then had told me exactly not to do. And there's actually a middle path, which you've just described beautifully, and the idea that you have lost, how much have you lost altogether? Smiling Red-Haired Girl with Upward Braids and Excited Look Whimsical, color image of a smiling red-haired girl with upward braids and a look of excitement! And for me, I am okay with it because the expression “Fat Ginger Nerd”, those three things, they're all references to myself.

And so I'm living off cereal and toast in the morning, sandwiches for lunch and vegetables for dinner. Boredom Portrait of an angry teenage girl wearing nerd glasses standing with crossed arms and looking at camera. Having visited a dietician and been introduced to the food pyramid, Brendan stuck to this diet of cereal, toast, sandwiches, fruit, and vegetables, but frustratingly found that he remained constantly hungry and did not lose any weight.

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This Podcast and any information, advice, opinions or statements within it are not to be used as a substitute for professional medical, psychology, psychiatric or other mental health care. It was, you know I knew enough to avoid things like the rice and that sort of thing, and it would just be meat and veg primarily. Two children play 'dress up' as scientists or chemists as they conduct experiments in their science lab together. Surprised red hair young woman wearing polka dot dress Portrait of beautiful red hair young woman wearing polka dot pink dress and nerd glasses.And so often in times like that people will, they'll go and look at other people's stories for inspiration, for motivation, and it's so good to see a story like yours that is actually not just, you know for the short haul. It is a story about how one fat ginger nerd finally fulfilled the simplest of dreams — to just be ‘normal’ — after half a lifetime of wishing and wondering how to make that possible: by turning his back on the very highest levels of advice that were supposed to have fixed him in the first place, but never did, and as he would later come to learn, never could. When I look back at the earliest photos of myself, I don't appear to look too bad when I sort of look and, “Oh, yeah, he doesn't look that chubby or anything”. I'm stopping and looking at food labels on everything to see how many carbs per 100 grams are on the label and if there's anything higher than X amount, I'd set myself this limit, then it stays on the shelf and that was my approach.

I was eating a lot, but it was just the carbs that I got rid of for starters, and it was then just over a very gradual period of several months that the hunger eventually just started to take care of itself, and it felt great. The information shared on the real health and weight loss podcast, including show notes and links provides general information only. And I think, you know for lots of people, you know our brains, Mary and I often talk about the idea that your brain likes to play tricks on you, and it will come up with things that you know, “Well, I can't do this.The idea that I could ever lose any weight at all, let alone keep it off afterwards was, for so long, nothing more in my mind than an impossible dream. It's so hard to make friends with people if they're just going to be knocking you down all the time, so let's just not engage with them. You're surrounded by technology and equipment and it's not so much, you know dealing with people face to face. Photo by Monika Grabkowska on Unsplash Various aspects of The Fat Ginger Nerd will appeal to various people, some more so than others, and that’s fine by me. And in desperation that year, what I decided I would try and do was let's see if I could walk to work.

I have a background in broadcasting, in teaching and in software development, and more recently I have gained certificates both in health coaching and in nutrition from PreKure. I love the name, so I'd love you to share with the listeners the name of your book and explain perhaps the title for them because it's a goodie.years ago on Christmas Eve 151 people never made it to their destination, the effects of that night are still felt by so many to this day. And then I just saw her, and I just kept thinking, and I was watching what she was eating and I'm thinking, just maybe I'll give it a crack. Yes, it was a struggle, but I'm there now and part of my reason for writing the book in the first place was to help me process a lot of those feelings. And for those who despair at the wider situation that our society as a whole now faces: in the timespan of a single generation, the proportion of Kiwi adults with a weight problem has more than doubled, from 28% in 1993 ¹² to 66.