• 1989 June: I leave school aged 19 with 6 O levels and 3 A Levels. I have no interest in going to university, I want a job!
• 1989 September: I start work at a very department store known as The Harrods of the north, Carmichaels. The company pay for me to go on an exclusive sales training course with a big wig!
• 1991: I leave the dept store and start work as a high flying, suit wearing financial adviser! In effect I am just selling insurance and pensions to friends and relatives!
• 1993: I leave financial services and decide to set up my own business a unique hairdressers called Johnny’s Club@
• 1994: I came  close to making it work and it had huge potential.  Infact for an afternoon I had a very successful busniess man who offered to come in as a partner. I can tell you the feeling of making it big wasnt at all what i expected.   After the failure of my business, I had time to reflect about how much stress I had been under day after day!  So after much thought and deliberation I asked myself, what is it that I am really interested in doing with my life? I was at a career crossroads and, after some thought I decided to not just make money, but to make a positive difference! Later that very same morning I saw an advert in the Guardian newspaper offering stress management training courses. Coincidence? I prefer to think of it as the late great Carl Jung said, ‘Synchronicity‘
• 1994- 1996: I trained and qualified as a Stress Management Consultant and became a full member of The UK Stress Management Society.
• I focused on the mental side of stress. I learn powerful, natural, drug free alternatives to help clients reduce stress and it’s damaging effects upon the mind and body.
• These include Meditation & Yoga. I began to use the techniques myself, and after 12 weeks of yoga and breath exercises, my sleep had improved dramatically and my resting pulse had gone down from 76 BPM to 44!

• 1999: I watched a health documentary called ‘Breathless‘ on BBC television. This was about a special breathing  technique that could apparently ‘cure‘ asthma!
• I watched the programme and was that impressed, I called the BBC the next day and after a bit of smooth talking to the receptionist I managed to get the mobile telephone number of the Russian Buteyko instructor. Coincidence or synchronicity?  Strangely I had for the last year also been learning Russian language at a night school! When I spoke to the Buteyko therapist over the phone, I was able to greet him in Russian, and he told me he was that impressed that he wanted to invite me along to his next course so I could witness the effects myself of this powerful breathing technique.
• 1999: I attended the course and after just one day, the whole room of asthmatics are literally transformed. I instinctively knew that this method had great potential.
• May 2000: I attend a Buteyko Practitioner course in Oxford on the Buteyko Method and link in my Stress Management experience.
• August 2000: For my own Personal Development, I decide to do not one but two solo parachute jumps! I find this very scary but not as scary as what I do 15 years later! 
• September 2000: I need a window cleaner and ask a man whose cleaning windows near my home at a local hotel, turns out he is Russian and only in Hull few more weeks and was cleaning windows to help cover some of the cost of his stay. 
• January 2001: My Russian window cleaner friend Arseni Petrov invites me to stay with him for a few weeks in St Petersburg.
• February 2001 I apply to be train as Buteyko asthma therapist at the Moscow Insitute of Buteyko 
• 2001: I travel to Moscow and receive training and am awarded the Advanced Buteyko qualification direct from The Moscow Institute in Russia. (I am the only English practitioner to hold this qualification)  I also received tutoring in Person from the late Professor Konstantin Buteyko. I also notice that at this time in Russia there was little appetite amongst the general population for processed food and although I saw a lot of expensive cars and clothes in the Moscow & St Petersburg, in 3 weeks I saw only one overweight person! For the first time I started to wonder if there was a direct link between processed food and weight gain.
• July 2002: My first son Ben is born.
• September 2002: I wrote my first book ‘How to Swap asthma for Life’. 
• 2003-2004: I qualify as an Adult Teacher after gaining both my 7307 Part 1 & 2 Adult Teaching Certificates. 
• April 2004: I start to put on Buteyko Practitioner Training Courses. I have people flying in from Spain, Portugal, Israel, Switzerland, and the United States.
• July 2004: My second son Joshua is born.
• 2005: I ceased teaching Buteyko practitioner courses because I realised that something was missing from the method. After consultation in Russia, it was agreed that the western diet of heavily processed food must be first acknowledged as a huge stumbling block to natural health and addressed along with the breathing therapy.
• 2005: I get married to Sarah
• 2005: I decided I needed to see the full holistic picture if I was going to be of maximum benefit to my clients. I realised I needed to acquire some more client 1-2-1 skills, including improved counselling and empathy skills. I enrol on a 2 year person centred counselling course.
• 2006: For personal development I do 12 months voluntary work at Citizen Advice Bureau & The Samaritans
• 2006: February nightmare news, Joshua is diagnosed T1 diabetic and will need insulin injections for the rest of his life.
• 2007: December my third son Louis is born
• 2007~2009: I continue to treat asthma clients naturally. 

  

• 2010 my second book is published and covers the four key areas required for health protection. Breathing, Exercise, Diet & Attitude. Ten days later I hear a voice in my head shout out “It’s not BEDA its ABED!” I realise I have got it all wrong, well not quite. But for any change we must first start with our own Attitude, so I rename the method ABED
• 2010: ABED is published in Positive Health Magazine.
• 2011: September my fourth boy Harvey is born.
• 2011: November Harvey needs an emergency operation. I pray to God and make a deal, if he takes care of Harvey, I will stop drinking alcohol (grew up in an alcoholic home). Good news Harvey’s operation was a complete success and not only have I not drank any alcohol, I have not even wanted one! Praise be to God!
• 2012: I qualified in nutrition and sports training. 
• 2014: ABED receives official recognition by the International Independent Therapists Institute and is the first in the UK to do so.
• 2014: March My fifth and last child is born and surprise, surprise it’s a boy! Welcome to the family Max.
• 2015: My local newspaper put me on the front page of Hull Daily Mail. Dr Fatloss! The local NHS are impressed and with so many overweight staff, I am invited to formally teach my method to help their staff to lose weight.
• 2016 NHS Hull invite me to coach their staff : 6 months pass and no further with discussions. Apparently, someone in management NHS took a dislike my name Dr Fatloss. It was not PC enough I have a crisis of confidence and decide to drop the name.
• 2015: I finally pluck up the courage to do something I have wanted to do for a long time in 1999 I did a comedy session on stage and ‘died’. It was horrendous! I vowed to myself I would one day do it again, smash it and lay the ghost to bed. So, in 2015 I do two separate comedy nights at two different venues in my home city of Hull. I found them even more scary than my parachute jumps, but the ride was well worth it, and I am pleased to say with all the laughing  from both audiences, I am proud to to say I definitely didn’t die,  and ‘ Ghost Slain!
• 2016: I make a LIFE CHANGING discovery, inadvertantly aided by Hull NHS so called Diabetes specialists. That PC’ are to blame for the huge growth in obesity and T2 Diabetes.   I am determined to bring this simple powerful truth to as many as possible.
•  2016: On a visit for my son Josh aged 12 at the time Hull Diabetes team inadvertently give away the link between diabetes, insulin, and obesity.
• I discover Diabetes both T1 and T2 and obesity are made worse excess consumption of Processed Carbohydrates
• 2017 I become the UK’s first nutritionist to be allowed to distribute official Diabetes UK recipe books for free.
• 2017 The Non-Pc Diet® is published the 1st diet that tackles the root cause of obesity and T2 diabetes.
• It is suitable for vegans as well as meat eaters.
• 2017 I appear on BBC radio talking about The Non-Pc Diet® and my aim to create an online health club that’s affordable for everybody.
• 2017: The Non-Pc Diet is self published.
• 2017: I trademark The Non-Pc Diet.

• 2018 My wife and I split up (She literally lives about 200 yards away so as break ups go not too bad for the kids). Sarah begged me to stop working every weekend and every spare minute. I was I admit obsessed with creating Smart Health Club. 
• 2017-2026 For next 8 years I help look after my bed ridden mum, my multiple stroke victim brother, as well as my children, plus I work another part time job to pay my mortgage and work for no money working on creating Smart Health Club 316 providing online coaching that must be affordable for everybody.

• July 2024: After exhaustion I am rushed into hospital for ‘life saving’ emergency operation. In between the excruciating pain I’m still thinking how to get the club started!! For the first time in years I can rest, I pray to God and ask how to get smart health club up and running, a voice in my head immediately says give A.B.E.D. away for free so people can judge me by my fruit.

• January 2026: I have my operation to begin to put things right. Unfortunately, 1 week later something goes wrong and I need another emergency operation and at last I am on the mend
• June 2026:  I have a successful operation to reverse my stoma
• June 2026: To launch A.B.E.D. I am taking the advice, and giving away The World’s BEST Weight Loss Book until 316 people join The World’s BEST Weight Loss Club

I have never turned anyone away from treatment in over 35 years for an inability to pay.

When I set about creating Smart Health Club it was important that I made it accessible and affordable for everybody.

I am launching The Obesity Solution Health 4 Life Kit @50% off and I am offering all A.B.E.D. ambassadors the option to join Smart Health Club @ the UC price of £5.50p/m

What are the odds on someone creating a unique drug free health coaching system called A.B.E.D.and that the creator whilst recovering, will be launching the system from a hospital bed?

The stress of bringing A.B.E.D. to market as an online club has cost me my wife (we are still close) and 2 years ago almost cost me my life, (true story).

July 2024 I was rushed into hospital for emergency life saving surgery, it wasn’t cancer but I was severly blocked up inside, and ironically I had been experiencing a huge block on how to to get my new online healthy weight loss club up and running. 

Well after a few days in hospital and finally resting properly, I prayed to God and asked him for help to get the club going, and a voice in my head said give it away for free. 

Let people judge me by my fruits.

Me pictured August 2024 Hull Royal Infirmary after life saving surgery 

(The stress of A.B.E.D. almost cost me my life, lets hope it was worth it, just imagine if people think it’s pants!

When I was in hospital I prayed and aksed for help how to get more people to know about A.B.E.D. Health and a voice said give it away for free and let people judge you by your fruits.)

I have not been able to work in almost two years and that means every purchase of A.B.E.D. health is very much appreciated. 

Every A.B.E.D. Ambassador can help me to get A.B.E.D. up and running.

I haven’t had a holiday or break in over 8 years. and the last 2 years I have been unable to work and benefits was just enough for food.

 I have gotten behind on the mortgage, lost my car and now have a leaking bathroom that needs completley new tiles and celing. 

316 A.B.E.D. Ambassadors will help:

1.Pay off mortgae arrears 

2. Fix the our leaking bathroom 

3. Get a new car 

4.2. Take my boys on a well deserved holiday

June 2026 succesful reversal operation and now fighting fit and ready to go.