Find out how one reader went from morbidly obese to streamlined cycling machine.

THE GAIN

Downs had been tubby growing up, but it was a stint living large in the UK that really did the damage. “It was normal for me to get hammered in town, eat a curry at a restaurant, and then get another takeaway curry from the shop near my flat,” recalls Downs. By the time he returned to his native New Zealand in late 1999, he was a  ( More )