Weight Loss – Lindsey Dye

Abstract

Lindsey is in early 30’s and lives near Portsmouth, England. Working in a busy telesales environment for many years gave Lindsey a lot of success financially as well as respect from his managers and coworkers, but his health was on the decline. His income hadn’t been the only thing to increase over the years and his weight had reached 17 stone. (238lbs, 107kg). Through exploration of a change in diet, the effects were observed as to how it would affect his health, wellbeing and professional performance.

THE CONCERNS

As is often the case with body weight, and specifically body fat, it increases over quite a long time so often goes relatively unnoticed. Fortunately, Lindsey decided it was time to make a difference to his health, and with a young daughter rapidly growing up, he wanted to set an example not only for himself.

He had tried a lot of fad diets, from shakes, meal replacements, and all sorts of other gimmicks, which did work in the short term, but the weight always came back.

The weight coming back was the real concern, the detriment to the self-esteem, the ridicule, and the cost of both time and money.

This is often described as ‘yoyo’ dieting.

Working together

Finding Intelligent Eating through Facebook, Lindsey was intrigued but massively skeptical of how he could eat as much as wanted and lose weight. Fortunately, he got in touch and made the decision to take control of his weight for good.

Lindsey says:

“I had tried literally everything, from juicing to restricting eating on certain days, I’d walk instead instead of driving, and I’d get some results, but with my lifestyle, the weight would always come back. I didn’t want anymore quick fixes, the rebound was always depressing and each time I ended up weighing more – I thought that there had to be a better way, but didn’t know how. I approached Intelligent Eating and spoke to Adam, I confessed about how I would be the first to the lunch van and graze on what I know now is ‘junk food’.

Adam assured me that with some knowledge I could be completely in control, but it would take some effort on my part. I agreed, and he assessed my current knowledge of what he describes as ‘nutritional literacy’ – I was staggered at how wrong I was about food and how sucked in I’d become to food marketing, from that first consultation I knew I was onto something worthwhile. During the first few weeks of working with Intelligent Eating, I had masses of questions, the whole thing seemed a bit overwhelming but with time I realised that actually, it was incredibly easy.

One of the things I loved most was how easy it was to get my questions answered for reassurance in my own head but also so I knew 100% I was doing the right thing so I could pass on knowledge to my friends with confidence. Sure enough, the weight began to fall off and

before I knew it, the biggest problem I had was having to buy new clothes every weekend because I couldn’t punch any more holes in my belts; I literally felt as if every day I was getting leaner.

I took up quite a lot of physical exercise as my confidence grew and my personal relationships improved as a result; my work also improved and within months I was the top salesperson at the company – I felt so much better and with the knowledge I now have about food, and how I make decisions about food, particularly eating out, I made the realisation that the changes I’d made were for life.

As I push into my 30’s I honestly feel 10 years younger than I did only a few months ago, and that says a lot living the lifestyle I do that comes with the territory of being in a large sales team!”

Lindsey’s scenario is quite typical of someone in their 30’s, leading a sedentary life, sat at a desk for 40+ hours a week, the weight tends to increase over time at a rate, which often goes unnoticed until one day something clicks.

The usual path then is to look for a quick fix, and as Lindsey experienced personally, these are not always the best solutions to long term weight loss, and the resultant rebounds that occur can be devastating.

Fortunately, with the knowledge he acquired, he was able to make the decisions himself and ultimately change his health destiny, one which, if the current path had continued would most likely had led to many of the awful western diseases which are so prevalent in today’s western society.

GALLERY

Outcome

Lindsey says:

“When I look back at pictures of myself, I wasn’t happy at all, but now I’m lighter, I lost 56lbs (25kg); I am happier, and really just buzzing! I play football every weekend, I’m a new man, and when people ask me what I did, I just tell them, I made a decision and the right choice.”

What Lindsey describes is phenomenal, yet typical of anyone who is classified as obese. The excess fat causes a lot of strain on the internal organs of the body and fortunately for Lindsey, he had age on his side, so any damage is likely to reverse as he ages – the opposite of the general population.

To this day Lindsey often emails in photos of meals he’s created for himself, and every time the photo is accompanied with a big smiley emoticon! Weight loss need not be a diet of deprivation, far from it and he’s proved that beyond all reasonable doubt!

Lindsey says:

“When I look back at pictures of myself, I wasn’t happy at all, but now I’m lighter, I lost 56lbs (25kg); I am happier, and really just buzzing! I play football every weekend, I’m a new man, and when people ask me what I did, I just tell them, I made a decision and the right choice.”

What Lindsey describes is phenomenal, yet typical of anyone who is classified as obese. The excess fat causes a lot of strain on the internal organs of the body and fortunately for Lindsey, he had age on his side, so any damage is likely to reverse as he ages – the opposite of the general population.

To this day Lindsey often emails in photos of meals he’s created for himself, and every time the photo is accompanied with a big smiley emoticon! Weight loss need not be a diet of deprivation, far from it and he’s proved that beyond all reasonable doubt!

Follow Up

A follow-up resulted in 2021, 3 years after working with Intelligent Eating and Lindsey is lean, fit, happy and healthy. No objective data was acquired.