• 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 high class department store selling expensive furniture. 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 decided to set up my own business.
• 1994: I came really close to almost making it work and it had huge potential.  Eventually after much effort, the business closed. It wasn’t all bad, I  had along the way learned some good business acumen,  yet I had paid a price. I was only 24 and‘burnt out’!  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 made a decision to not just make money, but to make a positive difference! Iactulaly prayed to God and gave my life to him. 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‘
• A few days later I have a dream and woke up and wrote ‘The Cause is The Cure’
• 1994- 1996: I trained and qualified as a Stress Management Consultant and became  a 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 actually 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.
• July 2000: I am feeling very low and lost, I pray to God for an answer and close my eyes and open the bible with my finger pointing at The Book of Job.
• 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 visist him in St Petersburg.
• February 2001 I apply to be train as Buteyko asthma therapist at the Moscow Insitute of Buteyko  invites 
• 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 over weight person! For the first time I started to wonder if there was a direct link between processed food and weight gain?
• 2002: I wrote my first book ‘How to Swap asthma for Life’ 
• 2003: I qualify as an Adult Teacher after gaining both my 7307 Part 1 & 2 Adult Teaching Certificates. 
• 2004: I start to put on Buteyko Practitioner Training Courses. I have people flying in from Spain, Portugal, Israel, Switzerland and the United States.
• 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 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. So I enrolled on a 2 year person centred counselling course.
• 2006: For personal development  I did 12 months voluntary work at Citizen Advice Bureau & The Samaritans
• 2007~2009: I contiunue to treat clients naturally 

• 2010 my second book is published and covers the four key areas required for self 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.
• 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.
• 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 enouhg 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 the crowd then the booing when I realised, the only ones booing were the other more experienced and I think a little jelous ‘comedians’.  I am actually proud to to say I definitely didn’t die, and although still felt the nerves I was more relaxed and it got even more laughs ‘ Ghost Slain!?
• 2016: I make a LIFE CHANGING discovery. inadvertantly aided by Hull NHS 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. 
• 2017: The Non Pc Diet book is published.
• 2017: I trademark The Non Pc Diet.
• 2018-2019: I work on creating an online coaching alternative to diets and conventional slimming groups. I wanted to offer a weight loss coaching alternative that was accessible  affordable to everybody!

• 2020: Prepare during lockdown a UK wide online health club for the people when we need to come together to help one another
• 2021-2023: Decide to include all my work including ABED Stress and Buteyko
• 2024-Rushed into hospital and end up with emergency surgery (my 1st break and day off in 8 years) STRESS apparently according to the surgeon I was 2 hours from dying.

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• 2024-2026 Unable to work so unfortunately get behind on mortgage, lose my car and leaking bathroom literally falling apart.
• 2026-13th January I am booked in to have another major Operation
• 2026– June 6th Final Operation complete success
• 2026 –July  To help me simply download The Obesity Solution and leave a testimony or even better join Smart and let me save you money by teaching and coaching you how to lose weight naturally by eating more food.

1. What is Smart Health Club UK?

A new online weight loss coaching club that has taken me over 10 years work to get all the training and to build an online digital health club. 

Coaching can make a huge difference to weight loss outcomes, with some research showing you are 5 times more likely to reach your goal with a coach, rather than losing weight on your own.

2. How much does it cost?

£5.50p/w

3. You say £1000 free coaching but why I am paying £5.50p/w

Yes the £5.50 covers the admin all my expertise, coaching & support is free.

4. Do you have any experience?

Over 30 years teaching people who to improve their health naturally. 

I am the writer of a number of natural health books and the creator of A.B.E.D. the 1st Lifestyle health program in the UK to achieve therapy status.

5. Why do you offer 16 weeks free coaching?

Research shows it takes 21 days to break a habit and another 90 days to make it a new habit or lifestyle. 

I offer 120 days coaching with live meetings each week, Q&A session and even a certificate option?

6. Do I have to buy any products or special foods?

Absolutely not, my coaching is the simpler he better.

By simply increasing the percentage of real foods into your lifestyle, you will nto only lose weight naturally, you will soon start to feel better emotionally.

7. How much weight will I lose?

 2-3 pounds a week in the first few weeks then this will drop to 1-2 pounds a week.

8. How often should I get weighed?

I recommend once a week usually a Monday morning.

9. Do I sumit my readings?

To get the A.B.E.D. 16 week certificate you take a video of you 1st on scales and after 16 weeks. 

10. Can partners join in for free?

Yes as long as they share your account and live with you.

11. Do I need to be a member of a gym?

No not at all, many people feel uncomfortable at gyms and often people do not have the time.

I have made an online exercise room for members, so all exercises can be done at home. 

12. What is A.B.E.D.®?

Attitude:

Recognise the importance of engaging the mind in your weight loss journey.

 Use hypnosis audios, mind imagery alone has been shown to improve weight loss by up to 5 times. 

Breathing:

Stress plays a huge role in weight gain and creates barriers to effective weight loss. 

Stress produces a chemical called cortisol and cortisol increases appetite. (Emotional eating)

I am a fully qualified stress management coach and have been using breathing techniques to naturall reduce stress and appetite. 

I am also the UK’s only Classically trained Buteyko Asthma specialist. 

Exercise:

From walking to HIIT to Tabata at Smart Health Club UK you will find a range of exercises perfect for you.

Some that take as little as 5 minutes a day and burn up to 6 times more fat than normal exercise. 

Diet:

Imagine discovering their is a single cause of all your weight problems, and not its not fat and it’s not natural carbs like fruit and veg.

It’s man made processed carbs (PC) currently in the UK we are one of the worst in the world for eating PC’s

13. What is the aim of Smart Health Club UK?

To teach people the truth about false food and that changing your own diet to eating no more than 20% false food (no brekfast cereals)

As my book says in the title you will be able to have your cake and still lose weight?

14. I am a vegan can I still join?

Smart Health Club is suitable for all eating types from vegans to meat eaters.

15. How do I join?

I am making 22 places a week available in 2026.

If there are places available you can join today but please note the club goes live 11/09/26.