![]() He eventually decided to call time on his drinking and started intermittent fasting, eating only two meals a day. “I went to my doctor and said, ‘I need help’.” He wasn’t sleeping and was plagued with anxiety. I was out partying three or four nights a week.”īy September 2018, Thompson had put back on half of his previous weight. “I wouldn’t call myself an alcoholic, but it’s well known that after weight loss surgery, people can replace one addiction with another. It wasn’t long before his drinking started to become problematic. I've always had a high tolerance for alcohol and if I have two beers, I’ll have 20.” So I started making bad food choices and that was my downfall.” “I thought, ‘it doesn’t matter what I eat because I can’t eat much of it anyway’. It didn’t help that he stopped following the rules, of eating with a smaller plate and controlling his portions. Gradually the weight started to creep back on. While Thompson had read about people losing 15-20kg in the first six weeks, he lost six. Eventually, the hunger dropped from starvation level to something more manageable. His surgeon suggested Thompson was insulin resistant, so his body wasn’t able to access the stored body fat. Of course, because of the bypass I could only eat a little bit and would be full but as before, I’d be hungry again in a few hours.” “I was hungry within hours of waking up after the surgery and was starving throughout the first six weeks. The 40-minute surgery, which Thompson had in June 2013, cost $25,000. Thompson considered going on the public waiting list, but in 2012 connected with surgeon David Schroeder for a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, which involves reducing the size of the stomach to a small pouch and bypassing the top part of small intestine, restricting food intake and making patients feel full after eating small meals. Still, she wanted her husband to be happy so supported him when he floated the idea of bariatric surgery. “She’s tiny, something like 49kg, but in Thailand being big is almost revered.” His wife Bai Yohk, who he met in Thailand in 2007, didn’t have a problem with Thompson’s weight. I had chronic hunger syndrome, where I was starving hungry 24 hours a day. He tried every diet, once losing 15kg when he arose at 5am three mornings a week to work out with a personal trainer. Today, Thompson weighs in the double digits, and has been sober for just over a year. “I’d buy pies and potato chips – they were my demon.” It was when he started earning his own money with a paper round at age 12 that Thompson’s weight struggles really started. “I was the classic fat kid at school, but I wasn’t picked on because I deflected criticism with humour.” Thompson had long known his way around a family-sized pizza. I was a managing director flying around the world and the humiliation of having to use an extender seat belt and watch people’s faces as I came down the aisle of the plane, hoping I wasn’t sitting next to them, does wear you down.” “I was in a bad space because there’s only so long you can keep stuffing your face. I couldn’t bear to see how much more I weighed.”īack in Hamilton a few years later, the now 52-year-old slipped into depression. “I once got on a scale and when the numbers reached 203kg. * 'I feel sad I didn't do it earlier': Rebel Wilson's weight loss regret ![]() * Lauren Manzo Scalia reveals she has lost 30 pounds since January * Raven-Symoné reveals how she lost 30 pounds in 3 months
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