Transformation Thomas

If you did one month's work this year, would you expect to keep your job? If you were a fabulous partner to your better half for just one month out of 12, would you really expect them to stay? If you were a brilliant parent for just 31 days a year, would you expect to gain and maintain the respect of your kids? I am assuming the answer to the above is no. So why brag that you are able to control your alcohol consumption just during January? In this episode, David talks about how small, manageable changes that you maintain FOREVER are the only ones that create true long term transformation.

Losing weight creates a whole new person in you. Not just body wise but mentally too. As you physically morph from one person to another, you have to adjust your mind accordingly. Without changing your mindset, you will mentally stay the same as the previous you and slowly but surely return to your old physical body.

Most blokes go for the slash and burn approach to losing weight. Slash their food calories to an unfeasibly low amount and increase the amount of exercise they do to an unsustainably high amount to burn more calories.   Slash and burn. David should know because that's exactly what he did. Not once but many, many times. But David learned the hard way that this is not a practical long term solution. In this episode, he explains how to do it better that brings about successful weight loss and keeps it off forever.

If you manage your food cravings, you manage your weight loss and transformation. Simple as that. In this episode, David goes through the three different ways in which anyone can manage their food cravings.

A child thinks they can have it all but in reality you can have anything but you cannot have everything. You have to choose. It is the same with weight loss.  Decide who is the person that you want to be at the other side of your transformation and drive yourself towards that. In this episode, David shares how he is using this philosophy to get himself back on a bodybuilding stage in 2021.

Binge eating, particularly on an evening or at weekends, can destroy anyone's ability to manage their weight. A huge amount of great work can be ruined in just a few days or even less with a bout of uncontrollable eating. In this episode, David talks about his own challenges with binge eating and how he has finally learned to manage it. 

This is the most extraordinary interview David has ever been involved in. He interviews his friend, Dave Hyner, who is 53 years old, 5' 6" tall (1.67m) and 25 stone / 350lb / 159kg. In this brutally honest interview, Dave shares his emotional and heartfelt story about how he came to be so overweight. Putting his teenage disabled son into care, being told by his doctor that he was a clinical compulsive eater and eating to numb the pain of his daily existence are just a few of the many things he talks about. He also shares what he is doing now to get his shit back together. A mind blowing interview with lessons for us all.

David did an interview this week and the whole conversation revolved around motivation. Is motivation internal or external, organic or mechanistic? David delves into this most important of topics in detail.

It took David ten years to realise something critical to maintaining long term transformation. It is about being comfortable with being uncomfortable in order to increase capacity. In this episode, he goes through his experience of getting to that level and how important it is for you to do the same.

There is one brilliant thing about most guys that help them get started on a transformation program. But equally, they also have one major flaw that stops them achieving long term success. David explains how he has been struck by both and how you can manage them to best effect.

Generally speaking, there are three different ways to lose weight and begin a transformation program. Problem is, one doesn't really work, one is very painful and the third - which is by far the best - cannot be forced. In this episode, David goes into all three in detail and how to manage yourself with each approach.

One year ago this week, David competed in his first ever bodybuilding competition. To achieve this lifelong dream, there was one strategy that he applied that EVERYONE can use to really power their transformation forward and maintain it over the long term. He goes through it in detail in this episode.

Any idiot can set massive weight loss goals while force feeding themselves stuffed crust pizza like a foie gras goose and drowning in gallons of Ben and Jerry's ice cream on a Saturday night. A transformation plan that will actually work needs way more than that. There are three required elements to make it a success. Problem is, most guys do them back to front. In this episode, David will go through each one and how to implement them to best effect.

David is going to share the one thing that is universal amongst people who successfully lose weight and transform their bodies. He also shares two major strategies that he employs every week that are central to him keeping his weight under control.

As a professional speaker, David knows the value of words. In this episode, he talks about why there is so much negativity around the word diet and why diets don't work according to a major study and what to do about it.

Everyone needs a seriously motivating reason to get started on a weight loss plan. In this first episode, David explains how it was deep personal shame that got him started. He also shares the first entry of a blog he started 9 years ago and why it was called 'Fat Man Sees His Testicles Again'.