Ashley rediscovers his love of football with MAN v FAT
At our Eastleigh club, Ashley Healey has managed to lose more than 42kg in unwanted weight since joining MAN v FAT in 2021 and has managed to make a number of changes to his lifestyle that have left him happier and healthier. His time with MAN v FAT started with a funded place courtesy of […]
George stays strong to change his life
Throughout the course of 2025, we’ve shared a host of remarkable stories from within our community. Tales of weight loss, life transformations and a huge step in the right direction for men’s wellbeing. We end the year with one of our most impressive stories of the year – and potentially since MAN v FAT got […]
Family drives Matt onto new challenges
We’d like to introduce you to Matt, from our Sunbury club. He has managed to lose 5 stone, or a quarter of his starting weight since the start of 2025 by scoring goals on the pitch and the scales. Matt realised that he had to make change over Christmas 2024, after seeing himself in a […]
Simon feels the benefit of Swindon success
As the year winds to a close, our MAN v FAT community are getting set for their festive break and, for many of our guys, it has been a year of personal success on the programme. Simon Holmes, who plays in our Swindon club, recently hit his 30% weight loss achievement and admits he’s feeling […]
Antony changes life with MAN v FAT
Up and down the country, MAN v FAT’s members are making positive steps to improve their life on the programme. Through the course of 2025, around 150,000lbs of weight has been lost by our community, supplemented by our new arrivals in both Rugby and Soccer. In Milton Keynes, Antony Brooks has made huge progress since […]
Mark leads by example in Guildford
Mark Smithies dropped five stone with MAN v FAT – now he helps others to do the same at our Guildford club. Meet Mark Smithies, from our Guildford club. Mark signed up with MAN v FAT in 2024, after realising that his weight was creeping up, and deciding he needed to make a change. He […]
Community drives Liam to reach new goals
MAN v FAT member Liam Gillmore, from our Tonbridge club, has managed to lose 30kg since joining in December of 2024, meeting new friends along the way and getting fitter than ever. Liam was tired of his weight, and looking to get active. He talks about his journey since then, saying: “I had had enough […]
Captaincy role helps James to success
Meet James Crockett from the Bridgend club. James joined MAN v FAT in January of 2023, realising that he had to make a change from his old methods to lose weight and keep it off. He said: “Joining wasn’t a sudden decision, but more of a gradual realisation that I needed to make a change. […]
Marcel living life to the full
Meet Marcel Feller from the MAN v FAT Football club in Bury. Marcel joined MAN v FAT Football in February of 2024, when the club launched, grasping an opportunity to tackle weight loss, and reignite a passion for playing the beautiful game. Discussing the twists of fate that led him to him dusting off his […]
New friendships fire Zac’s successes
MAN v FAT started out as a weight loss programme but is increasingly proving its worth as a way of building communities where men make great friendships too. And that’s certainly been the case for Zac Woodward, who has relished his time with MAN v FAT in North Tyneside. Zac recently hit his 20% weight […]
