A former yo-yo dieter who was once too big to ride a rollercoaster has finally lost weight for good after joining his local Slimming World group.
Joe Thompson is now 5st 3.5lbs lighter and has been named Slimming World’s Mr Sleek 2023.
The 35-year-old from Essex said: “I’d struggled with my weight for most of my life. I was adopted at birth, so I found it hard looking different to the rest of my family – I convinced myself that I had the ‘fat gene’.
