Get ill…look sick!
I remember the evening well, many years ago a friend of mine had just got out of hospital after suffering from a nasty bug (actually appendicitis…ouch). At the time a group of myself and best buds rented 3 flats in sunny Manchester all in the same building, and all next door to each other (a bit like in friends!). We engineered this over a couple of years until we had three flats! They were great times…times where we played darts for fun, ate rubbish, smoked things we shouldn’t have, made make shift bars in our flats and drank like fish! But too many baked bean pizzas and relaxing duvels whilst watching the BDO eventually caught up on my mate Dave!

Dave developed appendicitis! He was in hospital for a while and we were all worried (not really that worried…we knew the lad had alternative motives to being ill). When Dave eventually got out of hospital and returned back to the flats, we couldn’t believe it…Dave looked incredible! He looked like he’d been on a two week break with Mr Motivator and The Body Coach! Back to his slightly more ripped self and where had all Daves tub and excess timber gone?! We asked Dave the secret to his success and he responded…lads…”Get ill…look sick!”

  
We couldn’t believe it. Dave continued to explain this life long theory he had where a mild spot of illness (ideally mild food poisoning or a tummy bug) was something he’d considered a viable technique to shredding those late night kebabs and Big Macs! In Daves case this time his theory was essentially doused in petrol and set ablaze nearly putting the lad in a critical position (I will point out at this point that Dave didn’t actually try and put himself in hospital with the potentially very dangerous illness). Dave had just reaped the rewards of a close call and went from moonface Dave to ripped Dave!

Years have gone by when I think of this story! I think to myself…does it really wash. All the nonsense I’ve put in my body over the years seems to make it fairly resilient to tummy bugs or mild food poisoning so I can’t say I’ve ever known what happens…especially from a weight loss perspective…until now!!!

No shit (not literally obviously) last night I started with what you might describe as a mild tummy bug and may have been “ill” (we all know what this means but I don’t want to be gross!) through the night! Anyway…the net result of said tummy bug/mild poisoning was a…wait for it…4LB LOSS!!! 4lb in 24 hours!!! Insane! I know insanity was tough yesterday but that’s ridiculous!

So all my theory’s on #eatlikeaking are in fact not as solid a theory as my mate Daves age old theory of…”Get ill…look sick!”

Actually wouldn’t recommend this as feel a bit nuts today but thought I’d share none the less! 1 stone 4lb down! Bosh!