Jimmy “No Bellies” Gardner
Today one of the competitors in the Great North Run is Paul Gascoigne’s old drinking mate Jimmy “Five Bellies” Gardner.
Except that he’s slimmed from twenty-one stone to thirteen and now goes by the nickname of “No Bellies” according to The Sun.
Let’s hope he keeps to his new lifestyle!
The Anonymous Widower 
Oh that it were so simple as keeping to the lifestyle. I know many people who has lost large amounts of weight through changes in diet, lifestyle and exercise. They continue with the changes, but the weight returns slowly over a few years. As it starts to return, the person starts to eat less and less and despite keeping up the exercise (or perhaps because it) and still the weight goes on, because they have altered their metabolism so that it functions on fewer and fewer calories. People have actually ended up with metabolic rates which only require a few hundred calories a day, perhaps 5 or 6 hundred.
People who have been generally “normal sized” and put on a stone or two as they get older can often lose the weight and keep it off. But those people who have always tended to be fat tend to become fatter by dieting. From personal experience. Had I accepted the size I was when I was in my early 20s, I would likely still be that size today. I have eaten a healthy diet since I left home – there were big issues relating to food when I was at home. I stopped deiting about 5 or 6 years ago. I am certainly obese, but my weight is pretty stable, my BP etc is fine, my cholestrol is low. My wardrobe is bulging, I have been having the same amount of new clothes as I always had, but I no longer grow out of them as I did when dieting.
My GP agrees I am actually much healthier by not dieting
Comment by Liz P | September 19, 2010 |