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Battle to save Britain's fattest man

…comfort eater who tips the scales at 65 STONE is inundated with offers of help after revealing he must lose 45 stone... or die early

Britain's fattest man says he has been inundated with offers to help him lose weight.

Carl Thompson's extreme binge eating has seen his weight to rocket to a colossal 65 stone.

Doctors fear the 33-year-old, who has been housebound for more than 12 months, will die if he does not shift at least 45 stone.

Carl, from Dover, Kent, hopes to get down to his ideal weight of 20 stone but expects this to take a few years.

Coach Clinton McTaggart, from Dover, is one of many people who have offered to help.

Clinton said: 'He needs someone to talk to him and understand why he is that size. There may be some underlying issues.

Carl admits he has always had a bad relationship with food and as a child would sneak downstairs in the night and raid the kitchen cupboards.

He said: 'I was only about three or four and no one knew why I did it. I would just eat anything out of the cupboards.'

Carl lives alone and and his only company is two carers who visit twice a day.

He hopes the media exposure will help him get more support.

Carl claims he has been in a 'vicious cycle' with St Richard's Hospital in Chichester, a centre for bariatric patients.

He has wanted to go there for treatment says he has been liaising with the doctors and his GP for a year with no positive outcome.

He said: 'I finally got a phone call from one of the doctors two weeks before Christmas Day.

'The idea was to go to hospital and be there for about three years. That was my plan.'

But Carl was told there wasn't a place available for him.

Consuming 10,000 calories-a-day by gorging on takeaways and whole loaves of bread, the 32-year-old is too heavy to walk or wash himself.

Living off a combination of incapacity benefits and a disability allowance, Mr Thompson spends roughly £200 ($303) every week on takeaways and online food shopping.

But after the death of his mother in 2012 from a brain tumour, Mr Thompson turned to food as a means of coping with his grief.

With food as his only source of comfort, he doubled in weight from 30 to 65 stone in just three years and became housebound. 

'That's how I put all this weight on. I was very close to my mum,' he said speaking of his mother.

Now his days normally begin with a fry-up breakfast of four sausages, five fried eggs, a pan-full of mushrooms and fried bread.

Since he is unable to leave the house Mr Thompson relies on online shopping deliveries and takeaways.

'I order takeaways five nights a week, usually spending between £10 and £25 on Chinese, curries, pizza or fish and chips,' he said.  He has not had a relationship since his early twenties, which ended because of his weight gain.

'My last girlfriend was Rachel 10 years ago, but we split up after three years because of my weight,' he said.

Having been admitted to hospital for heart attacks and septicemia in the last three years, he is facing death unless he drastically changes his diet.

But unlike Paul Mason, previously Britain's heaviest man who tipped the scales at 70 stone, Mr Thompson said he does not want to undergo gastric band surgery.

'I need to go somewhere to lose my weight naturally because I can't do it on my own,' he said. 

(Daily Mail)