Hi all

My poor DH. He's a big guy, tall with a rugby player type build but he is overweight and is getting quite depressed about it.

He probably needs to drop about 30-40kgs.

According to standard BMI charts this makes him morbidly obese but he isn't because of his build IYKWIM. He's got great stamina and is just carrying weight around his middle, he doesn't have manboobs or anything like that - but he can't get income protection insurance despite our rep going directly to the assessors with a photo of DH to show them he isn't an enormous butterball like his weight would suggest!

Anyway...he is having such trouble dropping the weight. He doesn't and never has eaten much junk, he doesn't eat huge portions, he doesn't drink lots of Coke or anything like that. His diet could be cleaned up a bit, couldn't we all really - but there is no obvious culprit like Maccas a few times a week or anything like that. He even took 6 weeks off work and exercised at the gym twice a day with a program set up by a trainer, walking to and from the gym, ate really well...and only lost 3kgs.

He's getting to the point where he swings between giving up and then trying a big heroic effort to kickstart things...and then doesn't get results.

I am starting to wonder whether there is something "wrong" that is preventing him from shedding the weight. With that amount of weight to lose I would have expected it would be pretty easy for him to at least drop the initial 5kgs or so and it just never happens for him.

Could a naturopath help? What might they do? I did a bit of googling and there was some talk about fasting and lemon diets which my DH woudn't do...not really practical.

Any other ideas? He was getting upset about it again last night and I'd really like to have some kind of plan of action by the time he gets home tonight...even if I have to book him in for an appointment with someone myself.