After dropping his father on the age of 15, Andrew Goldblatt fell right into a deep melancholy. In a brand new episode of webseries Model New Me, Andrew explains how he turned withdrawn, refusing to depart the home and utilizing meals as a coping mechanism.

"I did not need to do something, I did not need to depart my room," he says. "I began taking my ache out with meals and consuming... I gained near 300 kilos in 4 years. I might consolation eat, I might consolation snack, I might by no means cease consuming, by no means cease ingesting."

He tried to shed pounds by way of weight-reduction plan a number of instances, however he recollects that on every event, he would find yourself gaining the load once more. "I might lose X quantity of kilos, really feel proud about it, then give myself a cheat day after which that may flip to 2 cheat days, so on and so forth."

At his heaviest, Andrew weighed 540 kilos. It was solely when he had a seizure, brought on by a well being difficulty he was born with, that he determined he wanted to make some severe modifications.

"I used to be too giant to get down the steps within the stretcher," he says. "They had been considering both reducing down the facet of my home so they may forklift me out of my bed room, or what ended up taking place, stroll down the steps. And that was an enormous wake-up name... You do not notice how tousled your state of affairs is till you are compelled to appreciate. I discovered the laborious means."