A slimmer who lost more than half his body weight is fundraising to have three stone of excess skin removed after the NHS refused to operate on him. Ashley Spendiff, 42, weighed 36st at his heaviest after gorging on five takeaways a week and needed two sets of scales to even weigh himself.
The care home manager was so big he could only fit into XXXXXXXL t-shirts and wore whopping 58ins wide trousers. Ashley turned to comfort eating following the death of a friend and ballooned in size.
He decided to change his life when he was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in November 2021. Ashley began walking but found it hard due to his size and would constantly be out of breath so took up wild swimming.
