A 28-stone man who would munch through 4,000 calories worth of McDonald's in one sitting has shed half his body weight after his "man boobs" grew to the same size as his wife’s C cup.
Chris Sellers said he started to pile on the pounds when he lived alone and would eat out every night, indulging regularly in Chinese takeaways and pizza.
But even after meeting wife Mattie in 2017, Chris continued to struggle with his weight and yo-yo dieting.
At one point he lost 12 stone before piling it back on; forking out $300-350 dollars a week on junk food he would proceed to binge eat.
During his worst binge, he demolished two McDonald's Big Macs, two large fries, a milkshake and forty chicken nuggets in one sitting.
Things came to a head in 2016 when his mum died. A grieving Chris started to gorge on four takeaways a day, seeing him tip the scales at more than 28 stone.
After fighting a losing battle to overcome his binge eating disorder and living a 'miserable' existence, the 45-year-old had gastric bypass surgery last April.
The painter's life has now been transformed, after he dropped 15 stone and began to walk “non-stop” - something he credits with helping him lose so much weight.
Chris now shares weight loss tips with his 63,600 TikTok followers.
Despite being repeatedly asked if he's getting his loose skin removed, he views it as his 'badge of honour' that reveals how far he's come.
Chris, of Memphis, Tennessee, US, said: "My whole stomach, chest and middle area of my body was the biggest part, that's why I had huge shirts. I would probably say they [man boobs] were close to the size of my wife's.
"My breasts have now shrunk and it's loose skin. There's also a lot of loose skin on my stomach, legs and arms. I wear a compression top and shorts to keep it in place, so it's not that bad.
"Every time I post a video on TikTok without my shirt on, the number one question I get is 'are you going to get your loose skin removed?'
"Even though I look in the mirror and see all this loose extra skin I'm ok with it because I remember what it was like to have it filled up with fat and the feelings that I felt because of that.”
To Chris, the loose skin is an symbol of how far he had come, he said.
"You're not going to have the perfect physique, you're never going to shrink back to where you were before you put on all this weight unless you have skin removal surgery.
"You'll have the scars from that, you're never going to have what you had before, but what you have is going to be a lot better than what you did have with all the weight."
During a typical weekday evening, Chris would eat a couple of cheeseburgers, a whole bag of Fritos with a cheese dip followed by a share-sized bag of M&Ms.
At the weekend he'd guzzle on takeaways, including a Pizza Hut every Sunday where he'd order a large stuffed crust pizza with two portions of breadsticks and a large cookie or brownie.
Chris said the binge eating started in 1999, when he got his first apartment far away from his home and would eat out “every single night”.
He favoured Pizza Hut and Chinese food, he said, and would accumulate a five-foot stack of pizza boxes each month.
"A lot of it had to do with depression, being out and away on my own, and I just ate non-stop,” he explained.
“I went to the doctor and she told me I was 397.4 pounds [28 stone] and that was a wake-up I needed to start doing something."
Chris said that appointment marked his slow start towards weight loss surgery as he yo-yo dieted for years, losing 12 stone on one occasion, but would always regain it due to his binge eating disorder.
Chris said: "I couldn't walk. I mean I could walk but walking up stairs would have to be one stair at a time and I couldn't walk far, definitely not like I do now. Just getting around was so hard.
"I missed going to so many concerts and sporting events and not going to places because I knew I couldn't fit into a plane seat because of my weight.
"I've missed out on a lot in life because of that and my weight. "You have this hopeless feeling that nothing that you do is going to work or matter, hopelessness is the word that I would describe for back then."
At his heaviest, Chris suffered from chronic knee and back pain that saw him pop painkillers daily.
Just before Chris' surgery in April he weighed 26 stone and he reached his goal weight of around 13st in November, and now weighs just over 11st 6lbs.
Chris said: "It wasn't until after my surgery that I realised how addicted to food I was and how much I relied on it for comfort and stress relief.
"After my surgery it hit me in the face really hard that I'm addicted to food, I'm a binge eater and can't do this anymore. It was rough.
"I tell people all the time [that] the mental aspect of this surgery is the hardest part, overcoming your food addiction, eating disorders, so I had to find a substitute for food and I did that with exercise.”
Chris said he was now a lot healthier and his quality of life was much better.
"It's like looking at a different person in the mirror sometimes,” he added.
