ACTION MAN

THERE WAS NO MIRACLE FIX FOR TIMOTHY FAIRWEATHER'S HEAVIER PROBLEMS. THE SECRET: TAKING SMALL ACTIONS EVERY DAY TO BUILD UP TO MASSIVE RESULTS.

- KIERAN LEGG

IF TIMOTHY FAIRWEATHER had one serious hobby when he was younger: eating. "I loved food," he says. "But things escalated and I started to associate eating with happiness and became an emotional eater." At just 13, he was packing on weight at an alarming pace, eventually tipping the scales at 112kg. That sudden weight gain sunk his confidence, creating a vicious cycle wherein he'd eat to cope with his insecurities.

THE WAKE-UP CALL

Fairweather's life isn't marked by just one transformation, but a series of crucial changes. In his teens, he remembers climbing a flight of stairs with his brothers and feeling like he'd "run a marathon". "I was completely out of breath," he says. He reflected on the pain and struck on a realisation: that horrible feeling far outweighed the pleasure he derived from his feasts. It flicked a switch in his head, and he knew it was time for a change.