“The ones that affect me personally are the ones where guys, when they started, knew that they couldn’t keep up with their kids, or be the dad they wanted to be. But of the lot, have there been any success stories that’ve really stayed with him? His men turn up on the first day of their season wanting to better themselves, and each one runs off the pitch a new, healthier, fitter and slimmer version of his former self. That isolation is so damaging, and something that’s addressed in what we do.”Įven though it’s still very much in its infancy, Man V Fat Football’s success rate means Shanahan has already experienced countless moments of pride thanks to the progress his players have made. It starts off as not being able to find anything to wear, then not wanting to go out with your friends and it just grows from there. “Being obese is a socially isolating condition – you lose confidence and begin to draw back from society. He knows from this experience that opportunities like the one he’s created are important on more than just the obvious physical levels. For a man of 5ft 9in (1.75m), this earned him the unwelcome tag of morbidly obese. In 2013, the now-director of Man V Fat Football began his own weight loss journey after tipping the scales at a little under 17st (108kg). It’s a situation that Shanahan himself is familiar with.
And if you’ve ever been through a weight loss situation, you’ll know just how important every little bit of motivation can be.” They simply don’t want to be the guy who has to admit he’s put on weight that week. People don’t want to let their team down. You end up not only losing weight for yourself, but for your team. Man V Fat Football brings in a layer of team motivation, too. “You may want to fit into a particular shirt or need to act on some news from the doctor. “Everyone who joins, joins with an individual motivation,” Shanahan explains.
An inspiration that overweight and obese men, until now, may have struggled to find. On the flip side, a team may be seven goals up on the pitch, but their opposition may have been killing it in the weight loss stakes that week and win on their bonus goals alone.”Īnd with that simple addition to the scoring system comes the key to this entire project – a wholly different incentive to lose weight. They may also have been awarded ten bonus goals for different aspects of weight loss, taking them to a 17-0 win. “Let’s say one team puts seven past their opposition.
“It’s not just the goals a team scores on the pitch that determine the outcome of a game, but the pounds they’ve lost off it, too,” Shanahan explains.
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