from 3a to 16 stone — a total game—changer. i felt immeasurably different. life just seemed easier. you do look at life before and life after, that it was... they are completely different lives. it's nice to get out. but with obesity, things are seldom simple. for tom, losing 18 stone brings new problems. so, the biggest thing that i've got going for me right now is that i have a fair amount of excess skin. i've gone through all of this effort and i still can't, you know, pick up this t—shirt out of my wardrobe and just wear it, i have to have this compression top on. tom is clearly self—conscious about the excess skin. here, there's kind of, just, skin. it will cost him excess of £20,000. step two of the operation would be to kind of pull that skin tight. but he wants it gone, for his confidence and for his self—esteem. that kind ofjust creeps into my thoughts because that's one