I've now been on the programme for six months, so this is a good time to take a review.

As regards progress I'm now much more happy with my body shape than I was at the start and hopefully that is conveyed by my transformation pictures. I've lost a lot of fat. I haven't put on as much muscle as perhaps I expected, but that has been constrained for the last three months by my Rotator Cuff Injury. I'm pretty much through that now and I will be completely revamping my weight training regime starting from next week.

Do I feel better? It's really hard to say as the changes come in small increments and you continually adapt to your current state as being the norm. But I think the answer is probably that I do. I've got pretty good energy at the moment and I've made it through the winter without picking up a cold, despite my wife bringing home a couple of quite severe bouts.

So what of the programme? It certainly produces results. It isn't easy. Anyone who promises you a weight loss programme that is easy, sustainable and with no health risks is lying to you. On the other hand it isn't that hard. When first you look at the recommendations for nutrition and exercise your immediate thought is "I'm not sure I can do that". Tom has a simple and powerful answer to that, namely that hundreds of people manage to do it successfully, many of them overcoming much greater obstacles than those that you face. And sure enough after a month the changes have become habit and after six months you can't imagine living any other way.

In summary I would say that the ebook has been the second best purchase that I have ever made. The first? The dating agency subscription through which I met my wonderful wife.