{"id":201193,"date":"2025-10-15T06:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/201193\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T06:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:30:11","slug":"liverpool-dad-loses-10-stone-after-health-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/201193\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool dad loses 10 stone after health concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Martin said he had struggled with his weight since leaving school, and when he first started doing any form of exercise around 10 years ago he was &#8220;so heavy I would hurt myself any time I worked out&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he previously weighed around 25 stone (158.8kg) and his body mass index was about 46, which was &#8220;ridiculously high&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anyone with a BMI of 40 or over is classed as being severely obese. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Martin was diagnosed with high blood pressure and sleep apnoea at the age of 38 and his doctor warned him he was at risk of becoming diabetic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was offered bariatric surgery or weight loss injections, but said he did not want to go down either of these routes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I didn&#8217;t want to be a statistic &#8211; another one who died in their 30s, 40s or 50s,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This year I just thought I can&#8217;t live my life like this any more &#8211; I have had enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have got two young kids and I couldn&#8217;t do sports day &#8211;  I couldn&#8217;t do anything with them as I was so sore and achy and so unmotivated.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin said he had struggled with his weight since leaving school, and when he first started doing any&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[6647,102,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-201193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}