The Fat Ginger Nerd: A Weight Loss Story

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So it's all of these things, the fruits, the vegetables, the grains, that I've been taught to eat since childhood. For the first four decades of his life, for 90% of that time, he was fatter than 90% of those around him, with the idea that he could ever lose any weight at all, let alone keep it off afterwards, nothing more than an impossible dream.

I've lost about 10 kilos by the end of that year, and this was a phenomenal amount of weight for me. At my heaviest by about 2015, I'm in my mid to late 30s at that point, and at my heaviest I'm 137 kilograms or 302 pounds and I was not in a very good place. Portrait of handsome Irish man wearing stylish eyeglasses posing for pictures Young successful student looking at camera standing in university campus, education concept. And yet, in under two years, that dream eventually, finally, become reality, and in the end all it took was for me to have found advice that actually tangibly worked.

There was a short sort of period of about three, three and a half years after I'd lost the weight, but before COVID, where I could do things like travel and get out there and see the world and attend conferences and meet people such as yourself and others. And it's a chapter about the various video games that I got used to playing over those years, and how I describe them as being collectively kind of like, you use the word sanctuary, I use the expression coping mechanism. But you have, you know changed some major parameters of your life in that you're no longer hungry, so food is probably not something that you think about all the time, and that you no longer have pain. Thanks to RNZ for the opportunity this morning to chat about the Tangiwai 70th anniversary service this weekend as well as what the podcast "Tangiwai: A Forgotten History" came to reveal. In hearing our guest Brendan Reid talk about his weight loss story I was saddened to learn how many people battling weight issues hide themselves away from the world.

But we know that, you know I would love to be able to wave a wand and just to live in a fair and just society, but we don't. I was eating a lot, but it was just the carbs that I got rid of for starters, and it was then just over a very gradual period of several months that the hunger eventually just started to take care of itself, and it felt great.

I did broadcasting for a while, I worked in radio for a few years as well, but again that's another inside solitary job.