Downsizing: Fit for Purpose

Chapter Three of my Sunday Times best-selling book, Downsizing.

At 5.30 a.m. on Monday 7 August 2017, I was awoken by the shrill bleep-bleep-bleeeeeep of the alarm clock in my London flat. I rolled out of bed, wandered into my bathroom, stepped onto the scales and watched the digital display rapidly ascending to 308lb (140 kilos); exactly 22 stone. I then padded over to the sink, brushed my teeth, splashed my face a…