How to Lose Weight

James Spelman. I am a qualified sports scientist and nutritionist. After finishing university, I started my career with the British National Health Service before diversifying to work as a consultant in the private sector. I later moved into the computer industry, which fortunately gives me both the health knowledge and computer skills to write this site.

However, I do not write this site purely from an academic perspective. I have also been through the process of losing weight so I know what it is like.

I have always been an active person and in my younger years, I could eat pretty much what I wanted without gaining weight. I love play and I also love food and drink. It is a question of balance and in my younger days, I had the balance right. However, when I reached my mid-thirties, I slowly started putting on weight. My physical activities had slowed down a little while my eating habits remained the same.

It happened without my noticing. More honestly, I convinced myself it was not happening. I had never had a weight problem before so why should I have one now. The occasional times I weighed myself I dismissed the scales as wrong. When friends commented I was gaining weight, I laughed if off.

The evidence was right in front of my eyes. I could see my increasing girth but by the time I finally accepted I was overweight, it was already too late. It is much easier to put the pounds on than get them off.

When I finally admitted it to myself, I was already around 20 pounds above my ideal weight. I did not like being overweight but it took quite a while before I finally got up the gumption to do something about it.

I knew how to lose weight. I had spent my career preaching to other people. Now I had to put into practice what I had been preaching. I dieted in exactly the way I describe in these pages and over two months I lost 15 pounds. I was happy.

Unfortunately, I slipped right back into my old eating habits and over the next couple of years, I put 10 pounds back on. I had to diet for a second time. It took another five weeks to lose the 10 pounds again. This time I learnt my lesson. I don't like dieting and I don't want to do it again. I have made some simple but effective changes to my lifestyle and eating habits. I also monitor my weight regularly to make sure it is not creeping up.

So now, I don't only know the academic theory behind weight loss. I also have first hand experience of losing weight.

I don't like to see people struggling to lose weight and trying fad diets to solve their problem. Losing weight is not that difficult if you know how. The easiest way was for me to put it all down in a website I could direct people to.