A dad who almost died due to his 24st weight shed eight stone to be there for his son and says friends no longer recognise him. Jamie Anderson felt he was "too fat for the gym" and regularly downed takeaways as well as drinking five cans of Pepsi a day.
But things changed for the 34-year-old after he was rushed to intensive care with an abscess which caused an infection and saw him spend a month in Pilgrim Hospital, Boston, Lincolnshire. Jamie was told he had diabetes due to his weight which caused him to become septic - as his body struggled to fight the abscess.
He had four emergency operations to drain the abscess and remove the infection - to save his life when the infection got close to his reproductive area. After recovering Jamie - who tipped the scales at 24 stone and struggled to squeeze into a size 4XL - decided he need to make a change for his partner, Amanda Wright, 35, and their son, Oliver, 11.
