The author's strong writing keeps the science understandable, but if you only want to know how he lost weight, those chapters can stand alone. The author followed its standard diet advice, but was still hungry, still overweight, and feeling its health consequences. Dr Lucy Burns: Absolutely, and I can see actually that there's another myth that you've just busted in there, and the myth being that kids are fat because they spend all their time on computer games. So it's all of these things, the fruits, the vegetables, the grains, that I've been taught to eat since childhood. I was fat long before it was cool, long before it had become normalised to the extent that it has today.

I'm only two of them now and give it a few more years, give it a few more years, I'll probably be down to just the one. I've written a whole book about the story, I sort of gotta be mindful of how much detail I go into here. Portrait of handsome Irish man wearing stylish eyeglasses posing for pictures Young successful student looking at camera standing in university campus, education concept. So low carb just absolutely fits the bill as a weight loss diet because it removes that, that barrier to fat burning that we would otherwise all have.

And he has I guess defied the odds in many respects because for a lot of, I guess weight management people out there, they will tell you that you cannot lose a substantial amount of weight and keep it off. As we head into Christmas take a moment to appreciate the people you have and that you can be together.

But you have, you know changed some major parameters of your life in that you're no longer hungry, so food is probably not something that you think about all the time, and that you no longer have pain. Photo by Valentin Müller on Unsplash With the possible exception of 2010-2011 and for different reasons entirely, the year 2015 ranks in my mind as perhaps the worst 12 month period of my entire life. The other two are still locked in place for the moment, though I imagine in a few more years, the ginger will be next, and only the nerd will remain.Having since lost more than 50 kilograms – that’s over 110 pounds – after figuring things out for myself, in my own way, in my own time. The annual Nutters Club Christmas video has become a bit of a tradition and this year we took a slightly different take. Dr Lucy Burns: Yeah, so the video games provided a sanctuary away from the bullying of, you know children are vicious, they really are they, and it can be relentless.

But I do seem to have accumulated enough answers for myself to have made a meaningful difference, to have finally been able to alter the course of my life towards something approaching normality for the first time.Dr Lucy Burns: Yeah, absolutely and I think it's, you know again, that the scale numbers, it's a guide. 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? So it was a very gradual thing for me with the hunger, but it was at that point at the cafeteria that day that I realised, “Hey, this is where low carb can be reconciled with one key aspect of that dietary advice”. Little Girl Wearing Nerdy Glasses Making a Mean Face "Color image of a young girl with red hair, wearing nerd glasses and making a mean face, with brown background. I was introduced to the food pyramid at the age of about 12 after my first meeting with a dietician.