She's an organizational expert known the world over, and today she joins your Skinny Scoopers to dish up advice on SPRING CLEANING your way to skinny jeans!
Mike in his own words... My name is Mike Scott and I am a life coach / weight management coach that lives and works on the East Coast of the United Kingdom. The photo on the left is me back in April 2005, when I was at my biggest, when I returned from this holiday in Florida I tipped the scales at twenty seven and a half stone (three hundred and eighty five pounds).
Over the summer of 2005 I went from starving to binging and dropped a couple of stone but in September 2005 I decided to start my last ever diet, I weighed in at twenty four and a half stone (three hundred and fourty three pounds), in the next twenty weeks I ate nothing but sachets of milkshake and soups and reduced my weight by one hundred and sixty one pounds down to a healthy weight. The photo of me on the right is from April 2006 when we returned to Florida one year later!
When I returned from Florida I was featured on the front of the national newspapers, magazines, radio and ended up hitting the sofa of GM:TV in June 2006 in front of nine million people telling them how amazing it was to finally get slim!
But there was a problem! When I was big I didn't like myself, I used to eat to give comfort, stop boredom, to celebrate, commiserate, when I was angry, when I felt guilty, when I was sad...you name the emotion and I used food to either numb it or enhance it. Food was my solution to my problems and not the problem itself. I had stopped smoking, drinking, taking drugs, spending on credit cards and gambling so my only weapon left was food and suddenly I wasn't able to eat anymore without putting weight back on.
Over the next four months I went totally off the rails, I left my wife, got written off work, got put on anti-anxiety, anti-depressants and was referred to a counsellor for support. I then came to realise that actually it isn't WHAT you eat that is the problem, it is WHY you eat that is the real problem and actually if I sorted out my mind then I would be able to stay slim and be happy!
Over the next year I trained in a lot of therapies including NLP, TLT, Hypnotherapy and Reiki and found that the happier I got the less I 'struggled'. This is me in 2009 back in Florida on the same ride with my son Ethan who is growing up by the minute!
I am still at goal weight, I haven't dieted now for years and don't need to as I no longer struggle with my weight! I have run half marathons, I have climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and I now have a passion to help others as I used to be a professional dieter, I was trapped in the yoyo lifestyle and the obsession that dieting and food can trap you in. But now I don't! If I managed to stop dieting and stay slim then I believe everyone can do it and therefore my goal is to make a real difference and help others break free and do something much more fun than worrying about their weight!
We're so excited to bring you the story of an inspiring dad who understands the mental and emotional part of eating. Mike is a role model for any guy who thinks big change isn't possible. Click Here to learn more about Mike.
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