Paul Mason : World’s Fattest Man ! Full Video & Photos

Paul Mason, a 48-year-old from England who used to work once as a postman, weighed 978 pounds. He then lost weight, having reached 698 pounds, meaning just enough to qualify for gastric bypass and was also planning on writing a diet book to speak of his weight loss. Weeks after the surgery, Mason was rushed to the hospital after complaining of severe chest pains, Metro writes.World’s fattest man Paul Mason was rushed to hospital yesterday after suffering a suspected heart attack.Complaining of severe chest pains, 48-year-old Mr. Mason was taken to a nearby hospital from his Ipswich home in an ambulance specially built to carry obese patients.

Mr. Mason, a former postman who developed an eating disorder after a suffering as series of personal setbacks, recently underwent a life-saving gastric band surgery which reduced his weight from 70 stone (444.5kg) to 49 stone (311.2kg),” Metro informs. “All I want to do is be able to walk again and live like a normal human being.

I’ve got a second shot at life and I’m not going to waste it,” he says for the British media. “I don’t want to go back to the old me. I’m determined to carry on losing weight until I’m a normal size. I’m much happier and healthier now,” Mr. Mason adds. Before having the surgery, Mason would eat 20,000 calories in a single day, which is ten times more the amount recommended to a healthy adult. He was put on a crash diet before having his stomach stapled.Mr Mason ballooned to 70 stone last year on a diet of junk food - despite being looked after full time by Suffolk County Council carers.

He admitted to eating 20,000 calories a day, eight times the amount needed by an average man.His care bill costs taxpayers an estimated £100,000 a year and is believed to have topped £1million over the last 15 years.Firefighters had to demolish the front wall of Mr Mason's former home in Ipswich so they could drive a fork lift truck inside to lift him out and put him into an ambulance when he needed a hernia operation in 2002.At the time he weighed 56 stone and told doctors that he was desperate to lose weight.A close friend of Mr Mason's told The Sun: 'There are two women he is extremely fond of.

One lives locally and the other is a bit further afield.'Trudie has had problems with her weight. They have so much in common, it is as if fate has brought them together.'Lorraine is very kind and caring and he is grateful.'He likes giving flowers to say, 'thank you'. He is so sweet at heart.'

Paul, who was eating 20,000 calories a day at his heaviest, has said the break up of a relationship with an older woman spurred him to binge eat.At the worst of his compulsive eating, Mr Mason was funding his gorging through stealing money from letters at a sorting office until he was dismissed before convincing his mother to take out a second mortgage.His breakfast alone would be enough to exhaust the appetites of most normal people, comprising an entire packet of bacon, four sausages and four eggs complete with bread and hash browns.Lunch would involve quadruple portions of fish and chips along with two kebabs while Mr Mason would munch on roast dinners, curries, pizza and more chips for his evening meal.



Paul Mason : World’s Fattest Man