Weight Loss: A No-Nonsense Approach. Part 1 The Facts

By Myrvin Chester

Are you really motivated to lose weight?

This is a record of my personal success in losing weight. I hope that the reader will find it useful, informative, and motivating.
This book is about what I did to lose that weight, which I managed in much less than the allotted time. There was no magic in what I did. The procedures I carried out were surprisingly straightforward and, for me, not too difficult. Here is the account of what I did and how I did it. I sincerely hope that you will find my story fitting to your own case in some way, and help you to lose weight as well.

For most people, there is no reason why this no-nonsense approach to weight loss will not work for you too.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Myrvin Chester
• Release date: Jun 14, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476051079

Myrvin Chester

Myrvin Chester was a Principal Lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton.He holds a PhD, and an MSc in Information Technology from the University of Nottingham, as well as a BSc in Psychology from the University of Birmingham.He has worked for the railways and an insurance company in Computing, and as a university lecturer. Now he is footloose and fancy free.He has lived in the Black country, London, and now Northampton, UK

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WEIGHT LOSS:

A NO-NONSENSE APPROACH

PART 1 THE FACTS

Published by Myrvin Chester at Smashwords

Copyright 2012 Myrvin Chester

Disclaimer and Terms of Use:

The author does not claim to have qualifications as a dietician or nutritionist. However, he has PhD in Computer Science, and a degree in Psychology. The author has strived to be as accurate and complete as possible in the creation of this book, which is based upon his research and his personal experiences of losing weight.

While all attempts have been made to verify information provided in this publication, the author assumes no responsibility for errors, omissions, or contrary interpretation of the subject matter herein. Any perceived slights of specific persons, peoples, or organizations are unintentional and accidental.

Like anything else in life, there are no certainties with practical advice books, and there are no guarantees of weight loss. This book is not intended for use as a source of medical advice. For this, all readers are advised to seek the services of competent medical professionals.

For Lindsay of course.

BACKGROUND

This is a record of my personal success in losing weight. I hope that the reader will find it useful, informative, and motivating.

I am male, 60 years of age, 5 foot 3 inches tall (on a good day), and a vegetarian. I already had (along with many of my age) various medical conditions: High blood pressure (hypertension), low thyroid levels (hypothyroidism – actually, the wonderfully-named Hashimoto’s disease), high cholesterol, and baldness.

Also, I was, I knew, at least overweight. I had weighed myself a few weeks before this story really began, and found myself to be 12 stone 8 pounds. That’s 176 pounds, or 80+ kilograms. I had a stomach ‘pot’ – as my doctor was pleased to point out – and respectable man boobs. But, before feeling ill, I didn’t take my weight all that seriously. For heaven’s sake, I looked nothing like those people they parade on the telly. They were HUGE. I wasn’t huge, so where was the problem?

In fact, according to the famous Body Mass Index (BMI), for someone of my height, that weight actually put me into the obese category – not miles over the line, but easily so. I had tried in the past to lose some bulk, and had had some success, but not very great, and the weight soon came back. As I got older – and having been taken redundancy from my lecturing job – the fat seemed to keep building up. When you see yourself every day, you don’t notice the slow creeping enormousness.

Finally, as if my catalogue of medical conditions wasn’t long enough, after feeling particularly tired and generally unwell, I was given yet another set of blood tests, and was told I had to repeat the test for diabetes. The doctor I saw soon afterwards said that, definitely, I had type 2 diabetes. Amongst other things (like taking medication), he said he wanted me to take charge of the disease and lose 15 kilograms in weight.

He gave me a year and a half to lose that weight. He used the term morbidity when referring to the medication and, I think, the weight loss. In effect he was saying, in his medical way: Lose 33 pounds or die!

After some research into the disease, and being talked to by various specialists, I realise that he was actually saying: Lose 15 kilos or go blind, have your toes chopped off, lose your kidneys, and then die!

Now