Lee said he had spent all his adult life obese and weighed 36st (228kg) at his heaviest. <\/p>\n
In 2021, he had gastric bypass surgery abroad and after the operation his weight dropped to 12st (76kg).<\/p>\n
But he felt “mentally and physically poorly” at that weight and said after his surgery he did not recognise who he was and removed the mirrors in his house.<\/p>\n
“Anyone who asked what my name was, I used to say Jobber. I was quite proud to be Jobber.<\/p>\n
“Then it became Lee, because I totally lost myself.”<\/p>\n
“I didn’t like who I’d become, I was just in a dark place.”<\/p>\n
Lee tried to end his life in 2023 and recovered at University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire in Walsgrave. <\/p>\n
It was 12 months later that he began to attend recovery meetings.<\/p>\n
He said he is now “quite happy sitting in my own skin” and is now at a consistent weight he is comfortable with, adding his health is “a lot better”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lee said he had spent all his adult life obese and weighed 36st (228kg) at his heaviest. In…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[102,1906,6623,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-70707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}