A neighbor of Dylan Condron, 21, brought him a t-shirt from a holiday, which size was XXXXXXL. And the cloth was too tight!
“My neighbour brought me a t-shirt back from her holidays and it became the straw which broke the camel’s back. I looked at it and it was six XL and it was still tight on me. I was thinking at the time f**king hell, jeez, this is too much. I was getting bigger and bigger every day.”
That was when Dylan found himself weighing a massive 33 stone!
The man couldn’t find work so he just started to eat carbs a lot.
“I didn’t do anything, I just sat around and I just kept eating and eating. It was comfort eating, it was like a spiral – I eat, I put on weight and I eat more. I’d always eat crisps and bread and have dinner and then I would have a sandwich before I went to bed. I would have two toasties in the night before breakfast in the morning – a foot-long roll with fried chicken. Dinner could have been burger and chips or lasagne or maybe a takeaway. I stayed in my room all the time because I was afraid of what people would think of me. Deep down I knew I was dying.”
But after the incident with the t-shirt, he switched his diet and started to exercise, which led him to lose 13 stone in 2 years!
“I hated vegetables – I couldn’t bear them when I started and kept complaining about them.”
Dylan also found his other half and started working as a restaurant chef!
Dylan’s family helped him to pay for a personal fitness trainer’s regime.
“With my family’s support I kept up the exercise and the new food regime and things began to work and I started to see a change. It was very difficult but I knew it was something I had to do so I kept going. The training part was easier than the food part.”
“At about 5pm I would have a ‘green’ drink – basically it was vegetable in a powder and you put it in water. I would dilute it with sugarless orange squash because it was so disgusting – it was horrible. I was at the end of the meal and there was a piece of broccoli – I just ended up putting it in my hand and walking away and throwing it away.”
The inspiring man believes that his old style of life would have killed him.
“If I didn’t I would probably would not be here because I was 33 stone and my blood pressure was going through the roof. I had pains in my head and my chest all the time – it was scary.”
Today, the man is trying to raise money for the surgery which will remove the “depressing” excess skin.
He also saved that life-changing t’shirt as a reminder of how he was!
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