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Losing Half Your Body Weight: Darren's Incredible Transformation
Kat chats to Darren Lloyd, who talks about hitting rock bottom at 24 stone with type 2 diabetes and losing half his body weight through ketogenic living and intermittent fasting. Kat and Darren also discuss career resilience, relationship challenges, and how making one significant change can create a positive effect across all aspects of life.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Career satisfaction comes from finding alignment between personal values and professional impact. Darren found his sweet spot in EdTech, combining sales success with meaningful contribution to education.
- Traditional weight loss methods often fail because they don't address the return to old lifestyle habits. Darren maintained a steady weight loss of about a stone per month through a complete lifestyle redesign.
- Understanding the relationship between carbohydrate intake, insulin, and weight gain was transformative for Darren, his research revealed how modern eating patterns contribute to obesity and diabetes.
- Drastic health transformations require thorough research and a personalised approach. Darren's success came from extensive study of ketogenic living and intermittent fasting.
- Mental health and personality can be significantly impacted by physical health and Darren regained his outgoing nature and positive outlook after his weight loss.
- Seemingly healthy choices like fruit can be metabolically problematic still. Replacing office snacks of Toblerone with grapes and bananas still caused insulin spikes and liver fat storage.
- Progressive fasting can be sustainable - starting with 16:8 fasting, moving to 18:6, then incorporating weekly 48-hour fasts, and monthly 3-5 day fasts showed how the body adapts gradually.
- Darren's relationship breakdown led him to meet his current wife and build a happier life, sometimes better things come from bad situations.
BEST MOMENTS
"Food doesn't have to be the driver of life, you can still enjoy it... but I'll just say instead of giving me the rice or the pasta, give me an extra portion of the veg or some more meat."
"One slice of bread is the equivalent of eating three teaspoons of sugar. Not many people would think of it that way."
"When you make a decision, obviously it can spark all sorts of different emotions, but once you've made a decision and you follow through with the decision, no matter how difficult that is... then you start, like the doors start to open up."
"If you're not getting enough sleep, that is really dangerous and harmful to health”
ABOUT THE GUEST
Darren is a 57 year old sales professional based in Somerset and working across the UK in the Higher Education administration software sector.
Darren’s transformation took place between July 2023 and December 2024 following a pre-diabetes diagnosis in 2016 and a full diabetes diagnosis combined with high blood pressure in 2019.
He put out a LinkedIn post about his journey in December 2024 which has gone viral having been seen by over 225,000 people. In 6 weeks. This was the first step in a campaign he is running to use his transformation both to inspire others struggling with weight and/or diabetes, and also to work with scientists, doctors and journalists to get policy makers in government/NHS to understand that their advice needs to patients needs to change in order to tackle the nation’s obesity and diabetes epidemics.
Darren has put together a one page document containing links to the key videos, doctors and scientists that educated him back from morbid obesity and diabetes to full health. If these resources would be helpful to you, email Darren at [email protected] quoting “Positive Habits Podcast” and he will send you a copy of this free document - all of the resources are also free to access.
Darren’s transformation took place between July 2023 and December 2024 following a pre-diabetes diagnosis in 2016 and a full diabetes diagnosis combined with high blood pressure in 2019.
He put out a LinkedIn post about his journey in December 2024 which has gone viral having been seen by over 225,000 people. In 6 weeks. This was the first step in a campaign he is running to use his transformation both to inspire others struggling with weight and/or diabetes, and also to work with scientists, doctors and journalists to get policy makers in government/NHS to understand that their advice needs to patients needs to change in order to tackle the nation’s obesity and diabetes epidemics.
Darren has put together a one page document containing links to the key videos, doctors and scientists that educated him back from morbid obesity and diabetes to full health. If these resources would be helpful to you, email Darren at [email protected] quoting “Positive Habits Podcast” and he will send you a copy of this free document - all of the resources are also free to access.
ABOUT THE HOST
Kat started her career as a teacher, before moving into Tech where she worked in different executive roles within teaching and consulting working across the globe, both in the public and private sector. Despite appearing 'successful' on the outside, she paid a heavy ‘life’ price. In 2016, her whole world collapsed. The reason? The compound effect of years of unhealthy and toxic habits that destroyed her health, relationship and career. She suffered a severe breakdown and lost everything. In the middle of this she got headhunted for her first CEO role. She rebuilt herself by changing just one small habit, and built a series of positive habits which has transformed her professional and personal performance, resulting in becoming the healthiest and happiest version of herself.
She is a positive habits international keynote speaker and teacher, giving talks and delivering high impact programmes to organisations across the globe.
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By Kat ThorneKat chats to Darren Lloyd, who talks about hitting rock bottom at 24 stone with type 2 diabetes and losing half his body weight through ketogenic living and intermittent fasting. Kat and Darren also discuss career resilience, relationship challenges, and how making one significant change can create a positive effect across all aspects of life.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Career satisfaction comes from finding alignment between personal values and professional impact. Darren found his sweet spot in EdTech, combining sales success with meaningful contribution to education.
- Traditional weight loss methods often fail because they don't address the return to old lifestyle habits. Darren maintained a steady weight loss of about a stone per month through a complete lifestyle redesign.
- Understanding the relationship between carbohydrate intake, insulin, and weight gain was transformative for Darren, his research revealed how modern eating patterns contribute to obesity and diabetes.
- Drastic health transformations require thorough research and a personalised approach. Darren's success came from extensive study of ketogenic living and intermittent fasting.
- Mental health and personality can be significantly impacted by physical health and Darren regained his outgoing nature and positive outlook after his weight loss.
- Seemingly healthy choices like fruit can be metabolically problematic still. Replacing office snacks of Toblerone with grapes and bananas still caused insulin spikes and liver fat storage.
- Progressive fasting can be sustainable - starting with 16:8 fasting, moving to 18:6, then incorporating weekly 48-hour fasts, and monthly 3-5 day fasts showed how the body adapts gradually.
- Darren's relationship breakdown led him to meet his current wife and build a happier life, sometimes better things come from bad situations.
BEST MOMENTS
"Food doesn't have to be the driver of life, you can still enjoy it... but I'll just say instead of giving me the rice or the pasta, give me an extra portion of the veg or some more meat."
"One slice of bread is the equivalent of eating three teaspoons of sugar. Not many people would think of it that way."
"When you make a decision, obviously it can spark all sorts of different emotions, but once you've made a decision and you follow through with the decision, no matter how difficult that is... then you start, like the doors start to open up."
"If you're not getting enough sleep, that is really dangerous and harmful to health”
ABOUT THE GUEST
Darren is a 57 year old sales professional based in Somerset and working across the UK in the Higher Education administration software sector.
Darren’s transformation took place between July 2023 and December 2024 following a pre-diabetes diagnosis in 2016 and a full diabetes diagnosis combined with high blood pressure in 2019.
He put out a LinkedIn post about his journey in December 2024 which has gone viral having been seen by over 225,000 people. In 6 weeks. This was the first step in a campaign he is running to use his transformation both to inspire others struggling with weight and/or diabetes, and also to work with scientists, doctors and journalists to get policy makers in government/NHS to understand that their advice needs to patients needs to change in order to tackle the nation’s obesity and diabetes epidemics.
Darren has put together a one page document containing links to the key videos, doctors and scientists that educated him back from morbid obesity and diabetes to full health. If these resources would be helpful to you, email Darren at [email protected] quoting “Positive Habits Podcast” and he will send you a copy of this free document - all of the resources are also free to access.
Darren’s transformation took place between July 2023 and December 2024 following a pre-diabetes diagnosis in 2016 and a full diabetes diagnosis combined with high blood pressure in 2019.
He put out a LinkedIn post about his journey in December 2024 which has gone viral having been seen by over 225,000 people. In 6 weeks. This was the first step in a campaign he is running to use his transformation both to inspire others struggling with weight and/or diabetes, and also to work with scientists, doctors and journalists to get policy makers in government/NHS to understand that their advice needs to patients needs to change in order to tackle the nation’s obesity and diabetes epidemics.
Darren has put together a one page document containing links to the key videos, doctors and scientists that educated him back from morbid obesity and diabetes to full health. If these resources would be helpful to you, email Darren at [email protected] quoting “Positive Habits Podcast” and he will send you a copy of this free document - all of the resources are also free to access.
ABOUT THE HOST
Kat started her career as a teacher, before moving into Tech where she worked in different executive roles within teaching and consulting working across the globe, both in the public and private sector. Despite appearing 'successful' on the outside, she paid a heavy ‘life’ price. In 2016, her whole world collapsed. The reason? The compound effect of years of unhealthy and toxic habits that destroyed her health, relationship and career. She suffered a severe breakdown and lost everything. In the middle of this she got headhunted for her first CEO role. She rebuilt herself by changing just one small habit, and built a series of positive habits which has transformed her professional and personal performance, resulting in becoming the healthiest and happiest version of herself.
She is a positive habits international keynote speaker and teacher, giving talks and delivering high impact programmes to organisations across the globe.