A Cardiff man has spoken about how he shed a massive 32 pounds in just three months after "avoiding mirrors as if I did it for a living". Ian Watts, 48, from Canton, Cardiff, achieved the unbelievable weight loss after three takeaways a week saw him pile on the pounds during the pandemic.
A self-confessed lover of cake, ice cream and bread, Ian, originally from Ynysddu, said he found himself becoming increasingly unhappy as his weight continued to go up. "Don’t get me wrong, I celebrate all body shapes and sizes, but my weight gain wasn’t making me completely happy," he said.
"I mean, we all did it didn’t we, ordering three takeaways a week during lockdown to ‘help local businesses’? But I was nudging 20 stone on the scales, avoiding full length mirrors as if I did it for a living, and with a big [50th] birthday on its way it didn’t seem all that clever to carry on down this path."
