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To me, my weight became
a conscious problem

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round when I was 13, 14 years old.

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It was only for the fact
that I kept on breaking bones.

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I broke my ankle six times
during my teenage years

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and that's when all the doctors said,

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"You really need to lose
a lot of weight

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"because this will
keep on happening."

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A typical day's food intake
for me when I was younger

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would consist of Pop-Tarts,
eggs, beans and chips,

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or a pasty or burgers.

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Once or twice a week
we used to go to McDonald's.

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Our family wasn't really
that educated on what to eat

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and when to eat it.

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By the time I was 17 years old

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I actually weighed 19 stone
and had a 44-inch waist.

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Life at school was...
It was quite horrible really.

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On many, many occasions I used to
go home and I used to cry.

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On one occasion some lad at school
actually beat us up

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because I was fat.

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I was so unhappy and the only thing
that would pick me up was...

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was a Whisper or a Dime bar

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or a big Cornish pasty
or something like that.

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Basically, I felt that bad that
I'd have done something very stupid.

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It was thoughts like that and having
the love and support of my family

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that I finally felt, "Right, OK."

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At 16, 17 something clicked
and I thought,

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"OK, I'm going to do something now."

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I decided to go
into bodybuilding...

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I fell in love with the idea of how
lifting weights and doing cardio

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you could sculpt and transform
your body to such an extent.

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You could make it look any way
you wanted it to look.

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I had a bit of a psychological issue

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with being scared of going
back to the way I was.

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I felt as if I didn't
work out so much

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then I would pile on
the pounds again.

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I also set myself a goal
of being a male model.

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I felt, well, I've worked this hard.

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I have this body now
so why not try and show it off?

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I've achieved so much
since I lost weight

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that all my wildest dreams
have come true.

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If I was that size now,
I think I would be happy

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but I don't think I'd be
as happy as I am now.