Print 🖨 PDF 📄 eBook 📱Since 2007, I have lost over 12 stone (76 kg) without dieting. I often get asked how I lost weight, so here is my story… As a child and then into my teens I was always very skinny and acutely conscious of that fact. After I joined the army at age 16 I started to put on weight and from then I have always had an issue with both controlling my weight and sustaining any weight loss I did have. There were periods in my life where I was at a healthy weight but for the most part I was overweight. At around the age of 40-44, I was at my heaviest and weighed over 27 and a half stone (175 kg). Up until that point the diets I had tried to control my weight (and there were many) never worked. Yes, I would initially lose weight but it would always come back on because I couldn’t or didn’t want to sustain it. I wasn’t willing to let go of the foods, like bread, pasta, chocolate, alcohol, cakes etc. that I knew to be the cause of my weight gain. In 2007 things started to ...