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Adam Dutton

Chocolate Addict Loses 168 Pounds In A Year To Become Professional Boxer

Tobie Vermeire before and after weight loss. (COURTESY/SWNS TALKER)

A chocoholic who ballooned to 26 stone (364 pounds) gorging on 35 Double Deckers a week has shed more than half his bodyweight in just a year to become a professional boxer.

Tobie Vermeire, 31, managed to lose 12 stone (168 pounds) in 12 months after taking up the sport in a bid to battle a food addiction which was causing him to “eat himself to death.”

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