A Driffield man has lost 15 stone in weight and dropped 10 jeans sizes - after taking up martial arts.
Jason Bond, 26, could hardly climb stairs and was warned by the doctors his health was at serious risk because of his weight.
But since joining a Driffield martial arts club around two-and-a-half years ago he has dropped from 34 stone to 19 stone and gone in waist size from 56-inches to 38-inches.
Now a trainee instructor and working towards his black belt, Jason says he wants to share his achievement with the world.
“I had hit rock bottom,” he says. “I’d just gone through a divorce and I was depressed and suffering from mental illness. I had little or no interest in life and had lost all confidence in myself.
“Everyone was worried about me; including my doctor and I was even offered surgery.”
He began doing a style of martial arts which mixes boxing and wrestling with kick boxing and jiu-jitsu at the AEGIS National Martial Arts College on Eastgate North.
The first lesson was “terrifying” and he was exhausted just after the ten-minute warm-up, but he said: “Something told me that it was now or never.”
The father-of-one , of King Street, also met his girlfriend at the club. And he says the training has given him the mental strength to help him cope with his mental illness.
Jason, who moved to Driffield from London as a youngster and went to Bridlington School, has never had a job. But now his goal is to make a career from being a fully-qualified instructor and helping others like himself.
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