Does 10,000 Steps Work For Weight Loss?

Stand-up comedian and MAN v FAT member Freddy Quinne is currently challenging himself to a no-gym weight loss experiment. Rather than spending £30 per month on a gym, he’s spending the same budget on an alternative healthy device. This month he’s spent his cash on a pedometer. The Chinese philosopher and founder of Taoism Lao […]
Join Our Free 30 Day Weight Loss Experiment

I’d like to make you an offer you can’t refuse, I want you to join the MVFIA. Don’t worry, no one’s sleeping with no fishes – MVFIA simply stands for MAN V FAT Intense Accountability. It’s a new, 30 day experiment that is designed to help you achieve your weight loss goals. Don’t worry, it doesn’t […]
Does Happify Work?

Happify is the latest in a long line of online solutions to attempt to cure our brains. As men who want to lose weight there is more often than not a mental element to our battles against fat – whether it’s stress at work, negative thought patterns or something more deep-rooted. We asked MAN v […]
10 Genuinely Surprising Things About Weight Loss

Men’s Health Week starts today and sees a number of initiatives helping to address the horrifying statistic that one in five men dies before he reaches 65. To support this MAN v FAT wants to get over 1,000 men to take our Health Report this week. It’s a simple, three minute quiz which provides you […]
The Ten Commandments Of Dieting Preparation

As the great bard once said: “Sunday, Monday: Happy Days, Tuesday, Wednesday: Happy Days. Thursday, Friday: Happy Days. The weekend comes, my cycle hums – ready to race to you.” Wise words indeed, but absolutely no help whatsoever if you’re looking for advice about dieting. For that we really need to focus on the weekend – that glorious two […]
Five Medications That Are Killing Your Diet

Last week, Harvard researchers predicted that obesity will overtake smoking as the leading cause of cancer within the next ten years. It seems unfair then that many of the drugs doctors prescribe for conditions linked to obesity can cause you to gain weight. We thought it might be helpful to list some commonly prescribed drugs […]
This Dieting Century: how we’ve lost weight in the last ten decades

For our ancestors dieting wasn’t really a concern, most people worried about not having enough to eat and being chased by dinosaurs [RESEARCH THIS LATER] rather than the reverse. It wasn’t until the twentieth century that this began to change, so here’s one hundred years worth of diet crazes that takes us from Fletcherism to 5:2 […]
Extreme Diets That Will Make You Shudder

There’s an endless supply of weird and wacky diets out there, a lot of them heralded on the adverts around the web as the weight loss secrets “they” don’t want you to know about. I’m not sure who “they” are, but since those messages also promise me introductions to available single women in my area I […]
How To Deal With Fat Insults

Many years ago, fresh off the boat (well, plane actually), from Ireland, I worked in a pub in west London. One day a well-dressed young geezer-type, whom I’d never seen before, sauntered up to the bar and said “A pint of lager please, you fat c***.” I was so surprised by this as a conversation […]
The 20 Funniest Diet Memes…Plus Cats!

Ahhhh, internet, we do love you so. What would we do without your regular dose of picture lols? Work probably – and no one wants that. We sent bona-fide memehound Craig Morris off to hunt down 20 of the funniest diet memes and then when we realised that he hadn’t found any cat ones we […]