Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox At the start of the year, bar manager Jack Buckham, 28, couldn’t bear to look at himself in the mirror.
Weighing more than 15 stone, his confidence was at rock bottom and his mental health was spiraling out of control. Almost every night, Jack says he would indulge in a ‘family-sized’ ready meal or takeaway - setting him back more than £150 a week. “I was in a very dark place,” Jack, from Ancoats, tells the M.E.N. “I couldn’t stand to look at myself in a mirror.
I stopped making plans and I couldn’t bear the thought of photos being uploaded on social media after a night out." Read more: Disney fans crushed by dark Finding Nemo plot theory Jack, who lives
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