30-stone Geoff takes TV route to losing weight

Geoff (50) weighs 30 stone and has appeared on Channel 4’s Supersize Versus Superskinny programme which pairs up overweight and underweight people in an effort to find a healthy middle ground and help them mend their ways.

Geoff, of Parkgate, Rotherham, works for the Environment Agency and runs the Mexborough branch of the Leeds United supporters’ club, decided to act when the stress of work and wife Joanne being diagnosed with a brain tumour got the better of him.

“Everything seemed to get on top of me and the weight was going back on, so I decided to do something about it and apply for the show,” he said.

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“What better motivation for losing weight is there than being weighed on national television wearing nothing but your underpants?”

Geoff was told he was a staggering 17 stone overweight on the show, but he says he lost two stone, two pounds during filming and has shed another two pounds since it finished.

You can see how he got on at www.channel4.com.

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