Can A Dog Help Your Weight Loss?

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Maybe it was covid, maybe it’s just breeding but dogs are bleeding everywhere these days. Some days you can’t even get into a park because it’s so full of dogs – and there’s practically no good sticks to be had any more because the dogs have got them all. But dogs aren’t just good for […]

The MAN v FAT Weight Loss Diaries: A Mixed First Week

As 2023 gets properly underway, we’re following three MAN v FAT readers to look at how their weight loss is going and to give you a warts and all view of the sort of problems that crop up for normal dieters. Cory Hickton I’m not a fan of the first few weeks of the new […]

How To Lose Weight – The Complete Back To Basics Post

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So this is it. You’ve made the decision to beat fat and this is where it all starts. Contained in this post is absolutely everything that you will need to lose weight and become the next MAN v FAT Amazing Loser (while you’re at it, check out all the weight loss before and after stories […]

How Amazing Loser Blake Beat His Emotional Eating

You might think that being bullied for your weight is the sort of thing that could destroy a person’s self-confidence forever. But this week’s Amazing Loser is evidence that even when someone has been kicked when they’re down, it doesn’t mean they have to stay down. Read Blake’s before and after weight loss story and […]

How to Get Motivated to Lose Weight If You’re Depressed

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Ask anyone who has suffered from depression and they will tell you that it can lead to a loss of motivation which in turn leads to a decrease in physical activity. This, of course, creates a vicious circle as the feeling of being overweight and unfit compounds the depression and makes you feel worse. Right […]

MAN v FAT Confessions: The Oil Slick

We love to hear your weight-related confessions (share yours here) mostly because it makes us feel that all those times when we threw biscuits away in a burst of willpower and then later rooted in the bin and picked old bits of cabbage off them means we’re not so weird after all. This confession carries […]

Spooky Things That Affect Your Weight Loss

As we approach Halloween, we thought it would be a good time to look at the spookier side of weight loss and as well as cheap, synthetic spider webs and increasingly ghoulish masks that includes superstitions. We’re not saying that the following superstitions are a good excuse for digging into the Halloween sweets, but they’re […]

Fat Men’s Health – Gout Causes and Treatment

In our Fat Men’s Health series, we’re looking at some of the most common conditions that fat men suffer from, what they’re like and how you can avoid them. Today we look at gout causes and treatment. We’re also chatting with MAN v FAT readers who have these conditions to get real experiences of what […]

Five Tips To Beat Diet Self-Sabotage

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We talked through this article on our first ever Twitter Spaces – have a listen https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1yNxaNjQyjEKj Self-sabotage is quite simply the act of undermining your own success when it comes to weight loss. It’s a hugely frustrating behaviour and from your feedback it is one of the biggest issues that men face when it comes […]

MAN v FAT Confessions: Sports Bra

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We have a strict no-judgement policy here at MVF. There are times when we’ve been through the bin looking for the packet of biscuits that we threw away and so the chances are we’re not really in a position to judge. Consequently, we thought we’d give our readers the opportunity to unburden themselves in the […]