The Top 10 Things Fat Lads Worry About
Carrying a few extra pounds comes with a whole set of concerns and anxieties, Adam Barrett knows all about it. 1) If you gain any more weight your penis will look like a very small popped balloon Medical fact: the more weight you gain, the smaller your manhood becomes and the further into the corner […]
The Experiment Every My Fitness Pal User Needs To See
There was a discussion recently among MAN v FAT readers about how different apps and exercise monitors will attribute sometimes massively different calorie counts to the same exercise session. Clearly, if you’re following a calorie counting route to lose weight then this stuff can mean the difference between a loss and a gain – it is also one […]
Future Amazing Losers – Garry Seymour
Garry Seymour has been a very vocal and useful presence on the MAN v FAT website – when he’s not dispensing advice about how to pose properly for photographs he’s doing well on his diet. Here’s the video of our chat where we discuss The Rules Diet and the cost-efficiency of Paul Dolman-Darrall’s jaffa cake […]
Fat Shaming Ruins Lives And Does Not Even Work
Boogie2988 lays it on the line – talking about his own experience with fat shaming and how eating helps him deal with his issues. Take a watch but be warned it contains emotions! Once you’ve watched it, it’s also highly worth taking a read of the comments under the video on YouTube – it shows you […]
Why You and Your Elephant Haven’t Lost Weight Yet
Ben George is a MAN v FAT regular on the forums and he’s also a doctor with an interest in the psychological reasons behind weight gain. Here he takes a look at how the mind is the place to start when you want to improve your body. ******** If you are struggling to lose weight […]
Amazing Loser – Christoffer Hecksen
Age – 34 Works as Explosives and Ordinance Technician in the Swedish army, previously a chef. Heaviest Weight – 321 pounds (145.6kg) Current weight – 210 pounds (95.2kg) The very first day I was walking to school with my thumbs hooked in my rucksack and I fell over and broke my shoulder. It was agony. […]
Is The Eatwell Plate About To Change? Professor Kevin Fenton Interview Exclusive
Professor Kevin Fenton is the Director of Health and Wellbeing at Public Health England. That means he’s the man responsible for a number of health campaigns that aim to help men to beat fat. MAN v FAT got the chance to talk to him about his views on obesity, carbs, the ever-controversial Eatwell Plate and whether […]
The 24 Worst Things About Being A Fat Man
Being fat doesn’t come with a list of the special nuggets of misery that appear when you hit BMI 25+, which is a shame as a bit of warning would be nice. Fortunately, we’ve polled the Brains Trust of the MAN v FAT forum and put together 24 of the worst things about being a fat bloke. […]
5 Proven Ways to Speed Up Your Metabolism
Metabolism? That’s a handy catch-all definition of pretty much anything and everything that’s going on inside us, from our heart pumping blood around our body, to our brain producing deep thoughts, or even our digestive system working hard to extract every last calorie from the food we’ve just eaten. Whatever’s going on inside our body, […]
Why Your Mates Don’t Want You to Lose Weight
The Goonies had Chunk, Take That had Gary Barlow, the college fraternity of Robot House from Futurama had Fat Bot and your mates have, um, you. Sorry, but it seems to be an unshakeable cliché that every group of friends needs a fat one; someone to be the lovable, chubby butt of all the pie […]
