Amazing Loser James Smith
Name: James Smith (ask him anything on Talk) Location: Vancouver, Canada Job: Social media specialist, blogger and photographer (Website, Twitter) Height: 5’8” (173cm) Age: 33 Highest weight: 266lbs (120.7kg) Lowest weight: 174lbs (78.9kg) Plan: Calories in vs. calories out, low carb and lots of exercise How did you get to the position where you needed to lose that weight? Years of overeating, […]
Who Do You Want To Be – Amazing Loser Tomas Kibsgaard Larsen
We all like to think we know how to eat sensibly and exercise right, but the diet plan and exercise tape industries are built on the fact that we often attribute our failure to lose weight unaided on our own lack of knowledge, or, more often, patience. It’s much easier to blame your failure on […]
Amazing Loser Martin Kelly
As long time readers will know, we at MAN v FAT don’t advocate any one particular dietary plan and although we know you’re all healthily skeptical of anything that sounds even vaguely like a ‘magic pill’, as are we, we do like to keep an open mind and as such, we’re always interested to hear […]
Out of the Shadows – Amazing Loser Neil Gambell
Here at Amazing Losers, we often try to answer the question of why that first step is the hardest to take. We’ve had a lot of different answers over the course of the series so far, but it really all boils down to the same thing: fear of failure. Whenever you set out to achieve […]
The Last (Belly) Laugh – Amazing Loser Josh Camson
Being the fat guy in your peer group often means you’re the entertainment, either because you’re the funny one, or because you’re the butt of the jokes – sometimes both. We’ve talked in the past about the negative effects some men feel when their weight loss disrupts the dynamic of the group. It can also […]
Paleo To The Corps – Amazing Loser E.J. Hunyadi
Not all we men who struggle with our weight are raised with sloppy discipline or bad habits – in fact, it’s often the guys in peak condition, who train hard and eat, er, harder, for whom the sudden cessation of exercise can have a massive impact. We’re all used to hearing men (particularly in ’90s […]
Flip The Switch – Amazing Loser Gino Brouwers
For most of us, identifying and eliminating the poor food choices we make is the first step to weight loss (except those mystifying couples on television shows like Channel 4’s Secret Eaters who are somehow oblivious to their own eating habits) but there’s certainly a case to be made for sticking with the foods you love […]
To Be Comfortable In His Skin – Amazing Loser Zach Moore
Every weight loss journey begins with a first step and some will take you further, faster, than others. After a health scare, this week’s Amazing Loser Zach made the first brave step towards his weight loss goal by electing to have gastric bypass surgery. As many of us have either experienced or worried about, rapid weight […]
Get A Grip – Amazing Loser Roger Smith
Men who have struggled with obesity often share similar vices – a nice, frosty, calorie-laden beer being a common example – and this week’s Amazing Loser Roger Smith is no exception. Like his American Dad namesake, Roger’s other great vice besides booze was junk food, but unlike Stan’s alien pal, Our Roger didn’t so much defecate […]
From Passing Out Fat To Toned and Slim – Amazing Loser Mark Hannigan
Because overeating is so closely linked with one’s emotional state, it’s easy to see how seeking the approval of others can lead to poor eating choices. For this week’s Amazing Loser Mark, acknowledging the influence of friends and family on his eating habits not only helped him to recognise how he reached his highest weight, […]
