Man who drank two litres of spirits and eight beers a weekend has quit to lose 4st
A man who struggled with alcohol all his life, drank two litres of spirits and eight beers every weekend has quit the booze and is now becoming a personal trainer.
Kevin Lamb, 47, started bingeing on cheap cider when he just 19 before moving on to vodka and other spirits.
He piled pounds with weight ballooning to 217lbs.
But he finally decided to quit the booze after he collapsed in pain and ended up in hospital for 12 days and doctors warned he would kill himself if he did not stop.
And to cap it all Kevin, who has shed four stone, is studying to be a personal trainer.
Kevin's diet now:
Overnight oats or pancakes every day with 60g of protein
Mid morning snack of fruit or protein bar
Rice and Chicken or beef for lunch
Chicken or fish salad and protein shake at night.
Kevin's diet then:
Breakfast: normally a pie or fry up
Lunch: would have been something from the work canteen or chip shop
supper: mostly fired food and six packets of crisps.
Weekends: was 3 or 4 either Chinese, pizza or Doner Kebabs
Kevin's weight then:
Weight: 15st 7lbs
Body fat: 31%
Cholesterol: 14.5
Waist: 38
Kevin's weight now:
Weight: 11st 7lbs
Body fat: 11%
Cholesterol: 4.5
Waist: 30
Kevin Lamb, 47, started bingeing on cheap cider when he just 19 before moving on to vodka and other spirits.
He piled pounds with weight ballooning to 217lbs.
But he finally decided to quit the booze after he collapsed in pain and ended up in hospital for 12 days and doctors warned he would kill himself if he did not stop.
And to cap it all Kevin, who has shed four stone, is studying to be a personal trainer.
Kevin's diet now:
Overnight oats or pancakes every day with 60g of protein
Mid morning snack of fruit or protein bar
Rice and Chicken or beef for lunch
Chicken or fish salad and protein shake at night.
Kevin's diet then:
Breakfast: normally a pie or fry up
Lunch: would have been something from the work canteen or chip shop
supper: mostly fired food and six packets of crisps.
Weekends: was 3 or 4 either Chinese, pizza or Doner Kebabs
Kevin's weight then:
Weight: 15st 7lbs
Body fat: 31%
Cholesterol: 14.5
Waist: 38
Kevin's weight now:
Weight: 11st 7lbs
Body fat: 11%
Cholesterol: 4.5
Waist: 30
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00:00I'm Kevin Lamb, I'm 47. We're talking today about some issues in the past and some of the changes I've made to get my fitness back really and get back up and running after a few dodgy years in my life.
00:14You know, I obviously didn't have much money at university, so as we all did back then, it was a question of bottles and bottles of white cider, so I think kind of from then onwards I've always kind of had an issue really with binge drinking, you know.
00:31And I've just never kind of, I don't want to say grown up, but I've never quite got to grips with it until the last few years.
00:39But just everything, isn't it? Everything in my life revolved around, you know, I mean it still does to a certain extent, not very personally, but everything.
00:48I mean, you know, good times you have a drink, bad times you have a drink, celebrations you have a drink, funerals you have a drink, everything's related around having a drink, isn't it?
00:57I mean, for me, I didn't need anything like that to do it. It was, you know, what turned into Thursday, Friday, Saturday was all I lived for really, with the sole idea of getting as much down my neck as we could.
01:11But so it's an addiction though, isn't it? You know, it's like, it's, but it's just, it's an addiction that's far more commonly accepted, isn't it?
01:18So I never really saw it as an issue. I never really labelled myself as an alcoholic, that kind of, to that extent.
01:24But what eventually got around to it was more like my week. I couldn't wait till Thursday to get away from work to just go home.
01:32What eventually turned into just going home and sitting drinking on my own, you know, it went from socially just to problem drinking.
01:38My favourite tipper was Jack Daniels. I used to drink bottles of Jack Daniels, no problem at all, and wash down with a few cans of Heineken.
01:44I used to sit there and, you know, if I had friends around or something like that, I'd be sat around there long on my own till the early hours and stuff like that.
01:53But it was, you know, it's just very much the kind of idea that when I was in hospital then, I was in there for 12 nights.
02:01Obviously, as I was up in Scotland, a couple of friends came up and visited, but the majority of the time I was sat on my own, out of it, on morphine, as I said.
02:09So, I kind of realised then there was an issue, but then I got out of hospital, had a bit of a spell off it, and then went back to it just as bad as I was.
02:20And that's when the second time happened, and then it happened the third time, and that's when I joined the gym.
02:25But, you know, that was the turning point, that September. That was the beginning of the end of the change.
02:35I've lost about four and a half stone altogether, yeah. I don't think I've had any accountability all my life.
02:41I've kind of accountability and responsibility, and I think this training now and having a coach, that's kind of like helped me along.
02:49And the two of us are now, you know, we're doing motivational speaking on the topic as a result of what's happened with me.
02:57I mean, I'm 48 in two weeks. I'm fitter than I was at 21. I still feel like I'm not fully over what happened to me, you know.
03:05Don't be. Don't be ashamed to kind of hold your hand up and accept that you need help, you know.
03:10I had help from, I spoke to a number of counsellors, a number of other different people, and it just didn't do any good.
03:17And the biggest thing I took away from it was kind of like put my energy into going to the gym.
03:23And I've met people at the gym now, you know, who are some of my best mates.
03:28And, you know, so it's not to be really, always be afraid to put your hand up and say and admit you need help, you know.
03:36And there's people, there's a lot of people out there who's prepared to help people in those circumstances.
03:41But the main one is just to acknowledge it. I think it's the first, that's my biggest mistake.
03:46I wouldn't acknowledge it. I had people saying to me, you know, I didn't think you're drinking too much.
03:50You didn't think this. And I was like, no, no, not really. I'm only 40, you know.
03:54And then it comes and hits you with a bang.
03:57And it's don't be, listen to people and don't be scared to hold your hand up, really.