48 Stone man loses 30 stone!

A morbidly obese man who was told to lose weight or die has amazed doctors by shedding a whopping 30 stone.

After years of reckless drinking, Colin Corfield tipped the scales at 48 stone. But now, after a strict diet and drastic surgery, Colin has cut his weight to just 16 stone.

The former pub owner, who blamed his weight gain on a bad childhood and drinking 20 pints a night, was so big he couldn't walk without the aid of walking sticks.

He even needed an oxygen mask to breathe and, at his heaviest, he couldn't fit in his bath and had to be hosed down in the garden.

Highlighted in a shocking documentary, Colin, 37, was initially denied surgery after doctors told him he needed to lose 10 stone before they could operate.

Determined to slim down, Colin sold his pub and, with the help of a slimming club, he shed nine stone in nine months.

Pleased with his weight loss, doctors agreed to perform surgery and in 2005 he had most of his stomach removed.

No longer able to eat large portions, Colin was stunned to see the weight literally fall off him. Now, two years after going under the knife, he has lost a total of 30 stone in weight.

A film crew documented Colin's two-year mission to fight the flab and at the start of his journey he revealed the physical strain of being so overweight. "When I try to stand up every part of my bones on my lower parts hurts," he said.

"It's not nice to be in pain. I can't do anything, I can't cook for myself, I can just about
clean myself and I'm out of breath when I walk to the toilet. "I am amazed by what I look like because I don't really look at myself because it's not nice - to me it even looks gross."

He then admitted his size has left him desperate for love. "48 stone does make you lonely," he said. "Basically I don't think anybody would want to be with someone that big. I do have feelings for people but they don't have the same feelings towards me."

He then paid thanks to his family claiming he'd be dead if they hadn't helped him. "I know my family will do anything but it's degrading to me. "From wiping my bum to doing my washing, it's not nice to ask people to do things like that for you. Without them I would be dead."

Colin then revealed he piled on the pounds after drinking with his dad at a young age."By the time I was 18 I was a fully fledged drinker. I could drink 20 pints and it would have no effect and I used to drink seven nights a week."My dad always drummed into me that I was big.

"I think he put me off diets because he did force me on them and I had to stick to them otherwise there would be repercussions."

He also revealed he regularly saw his father beat up his mother. "I have these visions of all these beatings that used to go on with my mum," he added. "I've seen him throw dinner plates in her face.

"We were constantly on edge so that we didn't upset him, which would mainly be taken out on my mum. "I let things get to me and I do think this comes from when I was a kid because we couldn't have our own feelings."Life would have been better without him."

Although his father passed away in 1998 Colin still couldn't control his drinking. In 2000 he took over a pub in Runcorn, Cheshire where he drank every night.

Four years later, doctors warned Colin that if he didn't lose weight he would die - by now he was a whopping 48 stone. "Colin can't help himself," said his mother Jean. "He'd say he wouldn't eat this or that but I knew he would. "Colin needed to have something done inside so that his stomach couldn't take the food."

In 2004 he looked into surgery and his mother Jean sold her house to pay for his operation. But in the operating room, surgeons had to abandon keyhole surgery when they discovered there was so much fat that the needle wasn't long enough to go into his abdomen to cary out the procedure.

To Colin's dismay he was told he would need to lose 10 stone on his own before the surgery could go ahead. Determined to have the much-needed operation, Colin sold his pub, lost weight through a slimming club and went into hospital nine months later.

His stomach was dramatically cut to a third of its size and the weight soon started to fall off. As he slimmed down, Colin joined a gym and now weighs a more healthy 16 stone.

He now hopes to have surgery to remove the excess skin. "I have been left with a lot of fat that has to be cut away," he said. 'I believe it's very painful but it's something I need to do because I can't be left with that for the rest of my life."

Since losing weight Colin feels he has got his life back. "I was in hell and I'm just glad I'm not there any more," he said."I was a lonely person who would eat but now I'm so happy.

"It got to a stage where I wanted to kill myself and now I wake up every morning and I'm glad I'm still here. Life is worth living."