A lorry driver who ballooned to 29st after scoffing 10,000 calories in daily takeaways lost nearly half his body weight in a year after joining a special fat-busting football league and now weighing 14st feels confident to start dating.
Before Vlad Tudose, 33, moved from his native Romania to the UK in 2010, aged 20, to study Law and International Studies at the University of Coventry in Warwickshire, he was a “fit and active” sportsman, who split his time between football and rugby pitches and weighed a limber 11st 3lb.