Martin has struggled with his weight
for most of his adult life.
As my friends, relatives and medical records will confirm, I personally have fought a battle with my weight for the best part of twenty five years. In the recent past, my weight has been as high as, dare I say it, 117 kilos: that's an incredible 18 stone 3lbs. So the people whose opinion I trust the most came up with a suggestion.
"Martin why don't you undertake a trial. We can take regular photos of you, and you can keep an ongoing diary covering your experiences." Great, I thought, fat photos of me all across the News of the World! But how could I refuse? Over the past twelve months I like others had been trying out the various individual components of the treatment, but never the combined treatment plan as a whole.
So on the 19th May 2008 I started the treatment, determined to ensure that the trial was completely authentic in every detail, and capable of withstanding close scrutiny, knowing that the experience would prove invaluable, not only when treating future clients, but also when undertaking the training of future therapists around the world.
The photographic impact of the treatment would have been even more dramatic had I not already been using elements of the package in earnest since Christmas, resulting in my actual start weight on the 19th May being just 108 kilos (238 lbs), rather than 117. The initial target weight that I set myself was 94 kilos, which would give me a weight loss of 14 kilos (31 lbs), and would take me down to the lowest weight I had previously achieved in the past 15 years. I had been to a wedding just before I started, so I was lucky that I had a number of decent photographs of myself in a suit available.