Meath GAA man who lost seven stones in five months “no...

Just five months later, the inspiring young slim man dropped an incredible seven stones.

Friends and followers flooded the 28-year-old with messages and wanted to know how he did it.

However, Ciaran claims he has never dieted in his life.

He told Irish Spiegel: “I’m nothing special. I haven’t done anything magical. Everything was made really very easy.

“It was just the discipline to hold on to it, the only thing that is difficult.”

Ciaran’s journey began in February when he joined the management team at the local club, Dunsany GAA, after serving years as Meath GAA’s public relations officer.

However, he was embarrassed that he was not physically fit and he “could barely get around the field” to help out during training sessions.

Flynn had played GAA for years as a teenager and gave up until he said in the face of the lockdown, “I’m going to have to do something to get fit.”

The GAA man eschews complex gym routines or fads and says he has made simple lifestyle changes.

He started to eat better, cutting out things like white bread and white rice

The determined Dieter also decided to get fit, starting with walking and high-intensity exercise.

“It was all just kind of permanent stuff,” he says. “Nothing you would say, ‘wow, he was like Rocky 4 up in the mountains.'”

But it worked, and the weight fell off him.

Notably, Flynn was back on the Dunsany roster in July.

As a long-time goalkeeper, he even came off the bench in the semi-finals of the club’s championship after the goalkeeper left the field injured.

For Flynn, the past few months have been a holistic experience – it’s about a lifestyle change, he says.

“The word ‘diet’ has always been a forbidden word. I never said I was going on a diet – I would change my lifestyle and I have more and more now. ”

That change included intermittent fasting: Flynn doesn’t eat before 12 p.m. and after 8 p.m.

It may not work for everyone, but it was a revelation for Flynn. Every week he lost more and more weight, and he says the goal is to have two more stones before Christmas.

If he can, he’ll have lost an incredible nine stones in less than a year.

“Don’t let yourself be dominated,” he says of the weight loss journey.

“I’m not letting it take over my life, but I’m letting it be a massive part of my life – my health.”