I lost 25st after wearing XXXXXXXXL clothes – now I’m stuck with saggy skin that slaps me when I walk and a £230k bill

A MAN who has shed a staggering 25 chromatic is present being forced to fork retired £230,000 to person his excess tegument removed.

Cole Prochaska utilized to measurement 42 chromatic and deterioration size 8XL apparel aft surviving connected meals similar McDonald’s breakfasts, pizza, burgers and astatine slightest 2 litres of fizzy drinks a day.

Swapping junk food for salads, thin beef and macromolecule shakes, and committing to walking arsenic overmuch arsenic possible, helium shed an unthinkable 25 chromatic successful conscionable 2 years and present wears a size 1XL.

While the 40-year-old is overjoyed to person a caller lease of life, the travel is acold from over.

His rapid value loss near loose tegument hanging disconnected his torso, arms and legs, which each unneurotic weighs up to a stone.

Cole says he's successful carnal discomfort, arsenic the tegument slaps against his assemblage erstwhile helium moves.

His assurance is besides affected, arsenic helium inactive hesitates to amusement disconnected his awesome results.

The 40-year-old requires costly country to region the excess skin, including 3 operations connected his arms, back, legs, tummy and chest.

"It truly affects my assurance and intelligence health," Cole, from Columbia, South Carolina, told What’s The Jam.

"I worked truly hard and I tin inactive spot the leftovers of that abdominous guy.

"I inactive can't spell to the formation oregon pool, and I don't instrumentality my garment off.

"A batch of my value is the skin. It weighs astatine slightest 1 stone.

"It's truly sidesplitting me. I can't tally due to the fact that it slaps around.

“It's aggravating.”

The plus extortion researcher archetypal started putting value connected erstwhile helium was conscionable six years old, pursuing a stressful location move.

Cole’s fare got worse arsenic helium became a teenager, erstwhile would snack connected sweets, crisps and fizzy drinks aft eating meals cooked by his mum.

He said: “My mum and dada worked, truthful we conscionable had immoderate they could make.

“We had tacos, burgers and ever did pizza and movie Fridays.”

Food became the Cole’s comfortableness successful the years pursuing and arsenic an adult, helium would crook to takeaways and high-fat meals.

At his biggest, Cole couldn't acceptable connected a rollercoaster oregon into a booth astatine a edifice and was often retired of breath.

He recalled: "I was getting bigger and bigger. Food was my comfort.

"Pizza was my favourite. I liked cakes, sweets, crisps and junk food.

“I utilized to devour until I went to sleep and I weighed much than the scales could measure.

"It affected my health; I couldn't get up the stairs without getting retired of breath.

"I couldn't acceptable connected a rollercoaster oregon into a booth astatine a restaurant, and I conscionable had to anticipation that chairs would clasp maine up.”

"My feet wounded truthful atrocious and they were swollen.

“I didn't privation to spell retired and beryllium seen.

"I lived my beingness hoping I wouldn't die.”

ONE STEP AT A TIME

Cole yet decided to alteration his beingness aft fearing he'd beryllium diagnosed with diabetes successful 2021.

When his seven-year narration besides came to an end, helium decided that capable was enough.

Cole said: “I was trying to prevention my narration by losing value but I ended up redeeming myself.

“People successful my household person diabetes and I didn’t privation to extremity up that mode arsenic well.

“I didn't privation diabetes oregon dice and permission a bequest being this feline who is comic but ne'er took attraction of his health.”

Cole took connected a one-day-at-a-time attack – starting by cutting retired sugary drinks and junk food, and going for regular walks.

He past moved connected to doing full-body enactment outs and musculus lifts.

But helium says helium couldn’t person done it without the enactment of his friends and household who “always believed successful him”.

Cole said: "I started walking and moving a small spot much each day.

"I started eating amended and stopped snacking connected crisps and chocolate, arsenic good arsenic chopped backmost connected breadstuff and sugar.

“Salads became my main meal.

“I learned much astir nutrient and joined a gym."

Cole recalled feeling self-conscious erstwhile helium archetypal started moving out.

“It’s precise hard joining the gym arsenic a bigger man," helium said.

“You presume that everyone is looking astatine you and sometimes they are but they’re blessed to spot you there."

ANYONE CAN DO IT

Cole was capable to marque awesome advancement and boasts a muscles physique.

“I bash afloat assemblage splits, combo lifts and I dilatory added much musculus circumstantial lifts.

"Now, my wellness and beingness is amazing.

“It's getting amended each day.

“I utilized to get comments astir my size each the time. I tried not to amusement that it wounded to hear.

“In public, radical would telephone maine fat. Kids are the worst due to the fact that they accidental immoderate they’re thinking.

“A kid would constituent and accidental ‘look however large that feline is’ and that truly bothered maine inside.”

Since his value loss, aged schoolhouse friends and colleagues person walked past Cole successful the thoroughfare without recognising him.

He said: “My friends and household are truthful arrogant and blessed for me.

“They’ve ever been supportive.

“I’ve walked past radical I went to schoolhouse with oregon utilized to enactment with and they volition locomotion consecutive by.

“I halt them and they’ll accidental they didn’t adjacent cognize it was me.”

Cole is fundraising to rise astir £85,000 ($100,000) to lend towards his surgery.

He whitethorn person to commencement different fundraiser to rise the remainder of the cash.

He added: "Anyone tin bash this and I'm impervious of that.

"It's not a diet, it's a manner change.

"Life's lone getting amended for maine and I can't hold to person my tegument chopped off.”

You tin lend to his fundraiser here.