'The Diet Guy' Mike Scott Has The Answers To Stopping Dieting Forever

April 7, 2010 - PRLog -- Mike Scott is a life coach / weight management coach that lives and works on the East Coast of the United Kingdom.

Back in April 2005 when he was at his biggest, and returning from this holiday in Florida he tipped the scales at twenty seven and a half stone (three hundred and eighty five pounds).

Over the summer of 2005 he went from starving to binging and dropped a couple of stone but in September 2005 he started a VLCD known in the UK as the Cambridge Diet. He weighed in at twenty four and a half stone (three hundred and fourty three pounds), in the next twenty weeks he ate nothing but sachets of milkshake and soups and reduced his weight by one hundred and sixty one pounds down to a healthy weight. He then returned to Florida on a holiday of a lifetime.

When returning from Florida this time he 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 he was big he didn't like himself, he used to eat to give comfort, stop boredom, to celebrate, commiserate, when he was angry, when he felt guilty, when he was sad...you name the emotion and he used food to either numb it or enhance it. '

Mike said '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, I thought a diet would solve my problems but it just didn't.'

Over the next four months he went totally off the rails, left his wife, got written off work, got put on anti-anxiety, anti-depressants and was referred to a counsellor for support.

He 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 he sorted out his mind then he would be able to stay slim and be happy!

Over the next year he trained in a lot of therapies including NLP, TLT, Hypnotherapy and Reiki and found that the happier he got the less I 'struggled'

Returning to Florida in October 2009 and having been slim now for four years and never dieted in that time Mike is finally at peace with his past.

Mike said '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!'

Mike has now started a daily blog at www.thedietguy.co.uk where since launch in January 2010 has had over 100 thousand hits.

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'The Diet Guy' Mike Scott was featured on the front of the national newspapers back in 2005 having reduced his weight by 161 pounds, now a life coach he is passionate about helping others break the diet lifestyle and do something more fun !