How to go from never working out to losing two stone in two months

Caomhan Keane charts the highs and lows of his battle with the bulge as he sailed past the big 3-0. In two months, he lost 21 pounds, going from never, ever working out to an all-out fitness plan.

I used to scoff at the saying ‘nothing tastes as good as skinny feels’. Because nothing tastes as good as fried fowl, sweating in grease, gently twirled in a tub of chicken gravy.

But, as my Teflon 20s turned into my tubby 30s, I knew the price paid for nuking veg in cheese and drinking two litres of Coke a day was going to be far more costly if I didn’t get off my deluxe derriere to combat it.