I can’t say I disagree mind you. As a man largely (no pun intended) defined as “broad boned” I have always thought that it wasn’t so much the numbers displayed on the scales that mattered but rather the rolling blob on ones’ stomach, the unwelcome and undesirable fat besieging most of us.

“You have a large frame!” my wife would softly tell me in her inimitable wise and soft spoken voice and whilst I never disagreed with what she told me, I wasn’t about to dispute her on this primal truth. “Yes, I have a large frame and thus the numbers on my scales don’t really matter!”

Physically active throughout my life, I kept this large frame in shape by a regular regimen of sports and exercise and as a result remained fit and healthy. Never really one for worrying about my diet and what I should and should not eat, I weighed practically the same throughout my 20s, 30’s and 40’s.

I weigh the same as I did when I was 30 years old I kept on saying to myself even as I was noticing that my daily exercise routine had largely diminished over the past 10 years to a point when I finally realized that 6 full months had passed when I last went to the gym.

“I have a large frame” I kept saying to myself when I finally decided to go back to the gym and as I went through the front doors, a familiar voice greeted me. It was my old trainer, a person I hadn’t seen in nearly a year.

He was the same, sporting a t-shirt with “lose body fat” written across his chest and only when I saw myself standing next to him in front of the mirror did I realize that my large frame could no longer disguise the simple truth that I had gone fat,

We exchanged news and he led me to the beginning of the first step of my new life.

A “how to” lose body fat session that I hope will redefine this 50 year old man that has fallen prey to the onslaught of body fat.

I need to lose body fat was the only thing I told my wife back at home. She had the same sparkle in the corner of her pretty eyes, her lovely face tender with wisdom and love and as she looked at me she said: “we all need to lose body fat my love!

Body fat! Yep, we all need to lose it! Some of us more than others!