Thick And Tired Of It?

Trevor O’Brien in Kilcoole FRI28FEB25

hen it comes to dealing with the shape we’re in, there are, of course, two simple truths that you have to consider.

On the one hand, losing weight is hard – and on the other, being overweight is hard.

You just have to choose your hard.

And if you choose that first hard, it’s important to remember that, whenever you do lose weight, it has a nasty habit of finding you again.

“Which is something that pretty much all of us struggle with,” says Trevor O’Brien, the man leading Slimming World over in Kilcoole. “I’ve had more than one occasion where I lost all the weight I wanted to lose, and then, promptly put it all back on again.

“That’s why most of us need a little help along the way…”

It was back in 2016 when Trevor had trouble finding a wedding suit that actually fit, and so, with the clock ticking down to the big day, over just 8 weeks, he lost 3 stone. Jump to 2020, and that weight had long returned, and then some – which is when Trevor lost 6½ stone over 7 months. The powers that be at Slimming World were impressed.

“Losing weight is something of a learning curve,” he says now, “if you’ll excuse the pun. And because I’ve struggled with my own weight, it’s very easy to connect with those coming to the sessions…”

For anyone who is thick and tired of it, those weekly sessions take place at Byrne’s Pub in Kilcoole every Monday (5.30pm and 7pm), Thursday (5pm and 6.30pm) and Saturday (9am and 10.30am). More details here.

In the meantime, we try to discover if the word diet is really just an acronym for ‘Did I eat that…?’

You can find out more about Slimming World by texting the contacting the bould Trevor on email here or by phone here.