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Nigel spoke to Allan Watkiss on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio York Breakfast, and Allan began by asking him what his New Year's resolution is. “Well my New Years resolution is an old chestnut, lots of people want to do it. I need to lose weight, I desperately need to lose weight.†Nigel has already changed his eating habits slightly “I don’t eat too badly I just eat an awful lot and possibly at the wrong times of day, especially late at night which is wrong I know.†He’s trying to stop eating late at night, but he explained to Allan why he does. “I work for myself, I’m a gardener and I was coming in from work late at night so I tend to eat late at night. "You have a cup of tea at 9 o’clock and another at 11 o’clock and unfortunately the biscuits come out and you’ve had all the chocolates and sweets over Christmas and it’s the usual story I’m afraid.†Allan asked Nigel why he wanted to lose weight and get fitter. “Well it was a combination of things really, I feel uncomfortable with my weight at the moment and clothes are a bit of a problem. I weigh sixteen and a half stone, and I’m sure I shouldn’t weigh as much as that. "But one of the main reasons is that sadly both my parents died in the last year, my father had a heart attack and my mother had a series of strokes and it’s focused my mind on the fact that I need to lose some weight.â€
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Has he a target in mind? “I’m never going to be thin, I accept that, but I’d like to get down to around 14 stone.†Nigel is quite active as he’s a gardener, so Allan asked him why he’s putting on weight. “I had 31 years at BT in an office job and over the years the weight gradually creeps up on you and now I get more exercise, but it seems to prompt my appetite, just being out in the fresh air all the time makes me want to eat more. I don’t smoke so that’s not a problem and I don’t drink a lot either, it’s the food.†And what about your attempts to lose weight being so public, will that help? “I think so, I think I might get a little bit of stick from one or two people about it, but I’m 99% certain that it will encourage me to keep going.†| 
