• 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 failed. 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! 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 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.

2010-2019

• 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!