Fat Men’s Health: What The **** Is Cholesterol And Why Should I Care?

Hooray! It’s National Cholesterol Month, which just so happens to be our joint-favourite health-themed month, tied only for top place with joint health month. National Cholesterol Month is organised by our chums over at Heart UK and aims to raise awareness of cholesterol and its impact on your health. Frankly, we think this is a […]

Five Great Songs About Being A Fat Man

We love music here at MAN v FAT and given that we’re all about supporting men who want to lose weight and get healthier, it’s inevitable that sometimes our playlists veer in that direction too. Fortunately, there have been several great songs that are either about the feeling of being a bigger bloke, or deal […]

What Does Your Partner Really Think About You Being Fat?

If you’re a bloke with a bit of weight to lose, then there’s a reasonable chance that you’ll already know that the world at large has an opinion about your size. Every so often those helpful white van drivers will wind their window down and make a suggestion about you losing weight. Or your mates […]

Share Your Thoughts About MANvFAT.com and Help Us To Improve!

Like you we’re always looking to improve and sometimes that means stealing other people’s ideas getting feedback from readers. We’re starting to put some changes in place for manvfat.com and we want you to come along for the ride. Actually, we want you to help to drive. Our mission is to support as many men […]

10 Tips For Staying Healthy While Working From Home

If you’re one of the millions of office workers who have had to adjust to working from home, then you’ve probably already started to see that it presents some unique health challenges. Whether it’s the proximity of the fridge, or simply the removal of social barriers that say you can’t work in egg-stained pyjama bottoms […]

MAN v FAT Confessions: Running Away With It

The theory is that confession is supposed to unburden the soul and leave the confessor feeling lighter. At MAN v FAT we’re all about feeling lighter and so we thought we’d offer our readers the chance to confess their weight-loss and fitness sins. You can add your own completely anonymous confession on the form over […]

MAN v FAT Comes To Buckinghamshire!

A football-based weight loss programme has helped 76 men from Buckinghamshire tackle obesity and lose 400 pounds of weight across 2021. And, as 2022 gets into full swing, we’ll be supporting more men in the county than ever! MAN v FAT Football is specifically aimed at overweight and obese men with a BMI of higher […]

Why it’s diet – and not exercise – that’s key to weight loss

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What’s more important for losing weight, what you eat or how much exercise you do? The spotlight has always been on how much exercise we should do to lose weight, but real change comes from what you eat. We tend to associate being ‘in shape’ with working hard at our physical fitness. We expect that […]