12/01/2025
"Oi, fat bastard!" - they shouted at him.
Maybe you can relate to this, or maybe you're about to find out... :S
Blast from the past stuff.
Here's how Andrew lost 5 stone and kept it off. I was chatting to someone this week about diets and stuff like that and this Cambridge thingy came back onto my radar; it reminded me of a chap called Andrew I worked with in 2018 who had 'tried everything" and always ended up back in the same place.
He said that the problem was he didn't have time to prepare meals and he was done with nonsense stuff. I said, fair enough - but why now are you reaching out to me?
This is the reason, now Andrew is a 46 year old partner of a solicitors firm in Ely and he was getting the train one day from Ely to London and someone shouted at him "oi, you fat bastard!", that is what hit him hard. He had all the cash anyone could want, a high status role but a few teens could bring him to tears with words. Turned out there was more - he has 4 kids as well, and he couldn't keep up with them. Don't get me wrong, not all of us can even at our fittest but he was done in, self esteem was not in a good place.
He had tried SO much, and done okay over time but it always came back, always the 20st mark (he's a big bloke at 6'3") and spent a fortune on personal trainers as well.
I said to him, I want you to do two things for me and come back to me in a month.
He never came back to me in a month, but he did about a year later and he had lost 5st.
Andrew was never a client, just someone that I gave a bit of advice to.
Kindly he did actually offer me some cash, and I did accept it and was very grateful.
Here are the two things Andrew did on my advice.
1. Every single morning eat a bowl of porridge.
2. Drink 4 litres of water every single day.
That's it, he had questions like what sort of porridge or can I use milk, or should I avoid fruit on it and I said, Andrew - I don't care, just do those two things.
This is how a lot of people get results with me, small changes which actually are incredibly powerful.
So what actually happened here.... firstly, displacement - he wasn't hungry at 10am and ordered a massive breakfast bap and then having a huge lunch. He was full at 10am still, simple. Lunches became smaller, and dinner was normal. The water was simple, he needed to drink water and he was only drinking coffee. He still drank coffee but for pleasure not to hydrate himself.
See how easy that is? Is it for everyone, nope. It worked for him though, for his lifestyle.
This is Intelligent Eating, not nonsense fad stuff, but smart decision making over time which is easy to do and requires minimal thinking. That is what gets results.
I hope you find this interesting - it was just a convo this week I had with someone and it reminded me of him and here's why. There is actually a product called "meal replacement porridge", I am not bu****itting you - this is the world we live in and it is designed with commercial gain first.
Porridge might not be the answer for you, but I can promise you that meal replacement porridge definitely isn't!!
Tell me your situation and I'll give you some pointers if you like. We are all the same species, but live different lives; different lives need different practical solutions. Andrew didn't count calories or know how much protein he was consuming, and he couldn't care less.
What he cares about is that in his head he's not a fat bastard anymore and his kids have more respect for him.
🙂
