Like anybody who had a doctor say that to you, it came as a shock

I wasn’t drinking heavily, eating badly, in fact I was training for a 55-mile cycle ride for charity

Not long before, I had one of those tests where they put you on a bike and connect electrodes to you

At that test they told me, I was fit as a middle-distance runner and live 10 years longer than my dad

How did I get to this point?

I had my gallbladder out

Which today is pretty straight forward

They take you in at night, give you a general anaesthetic

Use micro-surgery and you are up the next day

But I crashed in surgery

What they found was all the fat in my body is around my internal organs

This is part of your DNA

Fat will congregate on different parts of your body

Sometimes your stomach, for others their back side

Mine is internal

This is the most dangerous

The doctor said he was the same

I decided I needed to do something radical about my weight 

This wasn’t about salami slicing (pun intended) 

I needed to go large

I gave up drinking and haven’t drunk alcohol since 

I did a course on nutrition, cutting out sugar, carbohydrates, chocolate 

And reducing portion size and agreeing it was OK to leave food on the plate

I did get rid of the 10 kg, dropping a clothes size at the same time

Also kept it off

The photo, was taken by Steve Walker at the time