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СпутникиРНSpaceXРоскосмосNASADean Kemp had a lightbulb moment when he looked at his children
Neil Shaw Assistant Editor (Money and Lifestyle)
08:47, 19 Jul 2026
A dad who spent £ 2,600 a year on four takeaways a week ditched the habit and lost nearly nine stone after taking up a sport. Dean Kemp, 35, tipped the scales at 21st 13lbs at his heaviest and would gorge on takeaways, chocolate bars and fizzy drinks.
He would skip breakfast and only eat processed food sporadically throughout the day - before consuming a takeaway in the evening. Dean estimates his habit cost him around £2,600-a-year - with pizza and kebabs his go to choice.
But in January 2024, Dean had his lightbulb moment when he realised he wanted to be "healthier" for his children, Ava, 16 and Isla, 11. Dean joined the MAN V FAT football club in Millwall - where players score goals for losing weight before a ball has even been kicked, giving their team a numerical advantage over opponents before the match.
He also changed up his diet - swapping out the junk food for protein-heavy meals, fruit and nuts, and yoghurt. The father-of-two now weighs in at 13st 3lbs - having lost 8st 10lbs - and has hit his healthy BMI range. Dean, a refrigeration engineer from Plumstead, London, said: "Now that I've hit my goal it's more toning up and maintaining the weight.
"The thing that is keeping me at MAN V FAT is that it helps maintain it and also the love of playing football again. It's the access to exercise. My true idea of the secret to losing weight is doing exercise that you enjoy."
Before finding MAN V FAT, Dean spent many years try different diets in an attempt to lose weight but found that he would always put it back on. He said: "For me it was about sticking to a diet - I'd lose some weight and then go back to old habits again
My life wasn't particularly difficult day to day as I was still active because of my job but I was really poor with my decisions with food and exercise. "I saw no motivation to do anything about it - I didn't see the problem. There was a lightbulb moment where I thought I needed to be healthier for my children. I was getting more back pains and knee pains and whenever I'd see the doctors it was always because of my weight.
"I needed something more consistent. That's where MAN V FAT came in - it was brilliant, the consistency of it all. I've always had an interest in football and thought I'd go along and see what I could do.
"You turned up and the coach would put you on the scales to weigh you and then they explained how it all worked on the pitch and you play your half hour game of football. Then they calculate how much weight lost and that counts for extra goals - half a goal for losing weighting that week, and another half for tracking your calories.
"So, you could be a few goals ahead before you've even kicked a ball. My friends, Darren, James, and Louis would always ask if I lost weight the night before and would tell me I'm smashing it."
Alongside the exercise, Dean changed his diet and said he would "phase things out". He said: "Before, it was four takeaways a week, and silly amounts of fizzy drinks and energy drinks. I used to skip breakfast and eat at sporadic times and then consume a lot of food.
"It was all unhealthy food - a lot of processed food. I used to get a meal deal with extras to go along with it - like multiple chocolate bars.
"So, when I first started with the food, I would make one substitution at a time to ease into it - so slowly phasing out fizzy drinks for water for example. I wanted to lose a little bit consistently not quickly."