'I'm 45st and Britain's fattest man - now all I want for Xmas is a gastric band'
This means it takes less food to make you feel full and you absorb fewer calories from the food you eat.
At his worst, he smashed down more than 10,000 calories a day, including two extra-large doner kebabs with chips and five litres of fizzy drinks. Doctors had considered making him move into a care home but scrapped the plan when a housing association bungalow in the Hampshire village of Crondall became available in November last year.He also has a bariatric chair — wider and stronger than normal — that he also sleeps on, and a specially adapted shower and back door so he can be wheeled from the property without the need for a crane.
“I’ve stopped drinking Coke in the 1.5-litre bottles because that was a big problem, but I still have four or five cans a day. It’s amazing I don’t have diabetes. “One time, about two years ago, I tried to go outside to get fresh air and when I sat on the bench outside of my mum’s flat, it broke.
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