Send a Message to the Big Lad!

In this, the final episode and diary entry of the year. Chade talks about meeting his goal (sort of), his first Christmas as a father of two and then takes a look back at the last year. Chade's come a long way since Christmas last year, 2024 has brought some firsts, and Chade reveals what he’s excited about going into the new year.

Chade mentions a previous episode that's helped him out this year, and that he thinks might help you, please find the link below:

The Understanding Of Why


And as as a special present to Nico when Chade reads this description he will undoubtedly agree to PLEASE, PLEASE PUT HIS PHONE ON SILENT WHEN HE’S RECORDING, MY GOODNESS!!!

Happy New Year to all!!!

‘Diary Of A Big Lad’ is an Osborne Road Production featuring Chade O’Brien and Nico Diodoro. Theme tune written and performed by Jay Stevens.

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Send a Message to the Big Lad!

Chaders and Nico bring you an extra large Christmas-Dinner-sized helping of the pod with this years very special Christmas Episode!!

Firstly Chade introduces a new acronym that’s helped him achieve his goal (and will hopefully help you!). They struggle with maths, discuss at the ins and out of the best Christmassy foods that’ll be filling our shops, tables, and tums!!

WARNING!! There is ALOT of food chat!

Chade talks about some healthy alternatives to classic Christmas foods and Nico relays his idea for a healthier, lighter substitute for a mince pie and Christmas tipple. Prepare to be wowed!

FURTHER WARNING: Two sessions of (arguably) terrible singing quickly occur only at the beginning and the end, please do not panic and switch off whilst making a New Years resolution to never give independent podcasters a try and/or try a new podcast again.

FURTHER FURTHER WARNING: Slightly cheekier episode than usual, the Holiday Spirits are high and even though there's nothing heavy enough to classify as 'explicit', their are innuendos!

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

‘Diary Of A Big Lad’ is an Osborne Road Production featuring Chade O’Brien and Nico Diodoro. Theme tune written and performed by Jay Stevens.

For questions and queries please contact us at diaryofabiglad@gmail.com

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Send a Message to the Big Lad!

Chade discusses how his self-imposed weight loss challenge is going (not too well) and what he’s doing to right it now he’s lost one of his greatest tools, his gym!

Chade's doing 12 days of fitness challenges to help get him through the Christmas season, so go check out his daily videos on Instagram at

https://www.instagram.com/diaryofabiglad?igsh=d29wMWZ1aHVzNDIz

if you fancy joining in. Or just watching him do them while you scroll.

P.S. Also, we know he doesn’t read these episode descriptions but by goodness will he ever learn to PLEASE PUT HIS PHONE ON SILENT WHEN HE’S RECORDING DIARY ENTRIES!!!

Thank you,

Merry Christmas

‘Diary Of A Big Lad’ is an Osborne Road Production featuring Chade O’Brien and Nico Diodoro. Theme tune written and performed by Jay Stevens.

For questions and queries please contact us at diaryofabiglad@gmail.com

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Send a Message to the Big Lad!

Still struggling with his plan to lose some serious poundage before the big 25th, Chade and Nico discuss a game plan that Chade (and you, dear listener!) can empty at this late stage to keep things going in the right direction.

Late for Halloween, Chade also discusses the terrifying idea of clothes made of calories that the body eats while you wear them. Yikes!

‘Diary Of A Big Lad’ is an Osborne Road Production featuring Chade O’Brien and Nico Diodoro. Theme tune written and performed by Jay Stevens.

For questions and queries please contact us at diaryofabiglad@gmail.com

For more 'Diary Of A Big Lad' Content on Instagram, follow us at https://www.instagram.com/diaryofabiglad?igsh=d29wMWZ1aHVzNDIz

Send a Message to the Big Lad!

At the worst possible time (the build up to Christmas), Chade finds himself without a gym! What can he do about it? How will he handle his lose-weight-before-Christmas challenge without the heavy hitting exercise that comes with regular gym visits? Have a listen to find out!

He's also not learned to put his phone on silent during recording, apologies...

‘Diary Of A Big Lad’ is an Osborne Road Production featuring Chade O’Brien and Nico Diodoro. Theme tune written and performed by Jay Stevens.

For questions and queries please contact us at diaryofabiglad@gmail.com

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Send a Message to the Big Lad!

This week, Chade assesses his personal challenge (getting to 16 stone, or 224 pounds if you prefer), in 5 weeks and how he used SMART goal setting to calculate if it was actually doable (or in this case, DoaBL). If he fails, he gets no Christmas Dinner. This dear listener, is not to be taken lightly (although Chade will be, if he achieves his goal).

A great listen for anyone who might was to set a similar goal and wants a breakdown of a good pace to do it.

If you need a bit of an update on SMART goals, here's our previous episode on it. Good times.

S.M.A.R.T-y Pants

‘Diary Of A Big Lad’ is an Osborne Road Production featuring Chade O’Brien and Nico Diodoro. Theme tune written and performed by Jay Stevens.

For questions and queries please contact us at diaryofabiglad@gmail.com

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Send a Message to the Big Lad!

In the 90th episode, Chade takes us through the last 9 weeks, including the build up to his son being born, his thoughts after his son being born, and the progress made regarding their personal challenges (Spoiler alert!! It's not looking good for Chader's and Nico's done nada.)

‘Diary Of A Big Lad’ is an Osborne Road Production featuring Chade O’Brien and Nico Diodoro. Theme tune written and performed by Jay Stevens.

For questions and queries please contact us at diaryofabiglad@gmail.com

For more 'Diary Of A Big Lad' Content on Instagram, follow us at https://www.instagram.com/diaryofabiglad?igsh=d29wMWZ1aHVzNDIz

Send a Message to the Big Lad!

Things aren't looking good for Chade getting a Christmas Dinner! Chade explains how he plans on combatting not being able to achieve his goal and how it might apply to yours.

‘Diary Of A Big Lad’ is an Osborne Road Production featuring Chade O’Brien and Nico Diodoro. Theme tune written and performed by Jay Stevens.

For questions and queries please contact us at diaryofabiglad@gmail.com

For more 'Diary Of A Big Lad' Content on Instagram, follow us at https://www.instagram.com/diaryofabiglad?igsh=d29wMWZ1aHVzNDIz