I Lost 5st After Eating 5 Packets Of Biscuits A Day Battling Depression

Dad gives up job & becomes personal trainer to help others

- Siobhan O'connor

A MAN who lost five stone has told how he was overweight and depressed, eating five packs of biscuits a day.

Stephen Hanley shed the weight and quit his day job to become a personal trainer to help others to regain their confidence.

After his long-term relationship ended in 2018, the dad of two spiralled into depression and the weight started to pile on.

Dubliner Stephen, 30, told the Irish Mirror: “I fell into a depressive rut. At the time I felt like a failure and quite alone, I turned to food to make me happy and that meant I piled on the weight.

“I dealt with my feelings by basically eating myself through them.”

Aged 27, Stephen weighed 12 stone, but through excessive eating, within a year and a half his weight had rocketed to 16 stone.