He is the heaviest man in the UK, consuming 10,000 calories a day, and his weight once soared to 50 stones, or about 317.5 kilograms.
Due to his large size, he used a crane to get out of the apartment when he went out for medical treatment, and because he could not fit into the hospital X-ray machine, he was almost sent to the zoo for a physical examination.
However, at the beginning of May this year, at the age of 34, he unfortunately passed away due to organ failure.
"Because my son is too lenient to enter the hearse, he needs two cemeteries for his burial," his mother said. ”
So, what exactly caused him to be so obese? Did he try to lose weight before he died?
"Heavyweight" relief
One day in October 2020, Jason Holden, who lives in Camberley, Surrey, England, suddenly felt breathless and couldn't move.
But at that moment, he was extremely depressed, and he did not rush to call for help, but tried to end his life just like that.
"I didn't call for help, I just wanted to die. Because life doesn't mean anything to me anymore. Holden later added.
Fortunately, after some psychological struggle, the instinct to survive still drove him to call the emergency number. At the same time, he also contacted the fire department.
This is because he weighs about 600 pounds, and because of his huge size, it is difficult to walk an inch, not to mention that he still lives on the 3rd floor, and the elevator in the apartment is even more difficult to load him.
That's right, Holden is considered the fattest man in Britain after the death of Carl Thompson, who weighed 65 stone and weighed about 826 pounds in 2015.
After the rescuers arrived at the scene, they were also shocked when they looked at the huge body collapsed on the bed, and directly ruled out the plan of taking the stairs or taking the elevator.
After discussion, they decided to lift the person out of the bedroom window and coordinated a large crane.
In the end, more than 30 firefighters spent several hours using a crane to transport Holden out of the apartment with the bed together.
And when Holden was hung out of the window, although he was very unwell, he couldn't help but sigh: "This is simply amazing." ”
Because for six years, he has been staying at home, and for the first time in several years, he has breathed fresh air outside.
But the large crowd gathered outside the apartment also made him feel so embarrassed and embarrassed that he described the incident as "the most devastating moment of my life."
But if Holden cares so much about the eyes of outsiders, why does he make himself so obese? He blames everything on the psychological trauma he suffered in childhood.
Childhood struggles
Holden was born in 1990. Before the age of 3, like other children, he grew up with his parents, with a reasonable diet, a healthy body and a sunny mind.
But when he was 3 years old, his father's unexpected death brought all this to an abrupt end.
Whether you are an adult or a child, only when you have a basic sense of security can you relax and experience good emotions including joy and happiness.
But it is more difficult for children who are aware of most things to feel safe than adults.
Because of this, as the closest and most dependent people to children, parents have become their main source of security.
Therefore, one can imagine how uneasy and timid Holden must have been for little Holden, who lost his father.
In addition, Holden later described that he was bullied by his classmates for a long time during his school days.
Under the combination of these factors, he began to gobble up his meals, and secretly bought fast food when his mother was not paying attention, so as to gain a sense of security and comfort from food.
Holden thought to himself, "If my father had been with me, maybe he would have made me a healthy recipe to stop me from eating and drinking." ”
This shows that he knows that overeating is wrong, and may have tried to get rid of it.
But the reality of being fatherless and being bullied made him have to do it.
In this way, when he was a teenager, he weighed more than 300 pounds.
At this time, the mother, Lysa, also realized her son's obesity problem. To help him lose weight, he was sent to a nine-week "weight loss boot camp."
There, Holden managed to lose dozens of pounds.
But then, due to lymphedema, his legs developed severe swelling, which, combined with blood pressure problems, prevented him from continuing to lose weight.
This directly extinguished Holden's hard-won hope, and after that, he completely dismissed the idea of changing himself, and began to overeat again.
Ordering takeout is addictive
In 2014, Holden came into contact with the food delivery platform "Just Eat".
Founded in 2000 and listed in London in 2014, the platform works with most restaurants in the UK and is very popular with a wide range of cuisines.
As long as you move your finger on your phone, delicious food will be delivered to your door, which makes it extremely convenient for Holden to get food.
It was also from this year that he never went out again, and stayed at home frantically ordering all kinds of takeaways, mainly high-calorie foods such as barbecue and French fries.
For his first meal in the morning, he has to serve a large portion of barbecue and chips, and by noon, he has three large buckets of chicken fried noodles, plus plenty of shrimp chips, toast, and pies.
For dinner, he usually eats two cheese sandwiches, three packets of chips, and two large pieces of chocolate for dessert.
It wasn't until the wee hours of the morning, when drowsiness hit, that he stopped eating.
Not only that, but during the day, he would binge on high-sugar drinks, including unlimited orange juice and Diet Coke.
At most, he drank 5 litres of carbonated drinks a day. In his words, "I need to flush all the food into my stomach with a drink." ”
At that time, Holden ate 10,000 calories a day, four times that of the average adult male.
This made his weight skyrocket, and in just two years, in 2016, he reached more than 500 pounds. At its peak, it rose to 635 pounds.
It was also during this period that he won the title of "the heaviest man in the whole of Britain".
The cost of ordering takeout is also very large, about 30 pounds a day, equivalent to more than 270 yuan, and the cumulative amount of more than 10,000 pounds a year, nearly 90,000 yuan.
So much so that Holden called his bank statement "a joke."
But the problem is that his expenses are not directly proportional to his income. Due to his obesity, he has difficulty moving, and his daily life has become a problem, let alone work.
So, as an adult, he never worked and lived on welfare, but the money was still less than his appetite.
But the fatter he gets, the more he keeps binge-eating, "My life is gradually losing its light, I think eating can always bring some comfort, but I am addicted to food." ”
While constantly denying himself and eating like crazy, Holden's heart is full of contradictions. Over time, he had problems both physically and mentally.
Until 2020, he suffered from severe hypoxia due to eating too much, and was hoisted out of his bedroom by a crane in full view of everyone and sent to the hospital.
Completely gave up
At the time, doctors said that in Holden's condition, he would not live more than five years at most. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a prophecy later.
Holden, on the other hand, blamed the food delivery platform for the main responsibility, saying, "I wouldn't have been this bad if it weren't for the food delivery software." ”
But the doctor's words also made him think of losing weight again.
Therefore, during his hospitalization, he strictly adhered to the doctor's standard of three meals a day, plus injection treatment, and successfully lost 10 stones, almost 127 pounds.
After being discharged from the hospital, with the help of the local government, he moved from his original apartment building into a bungalow worth 400,000 pounds, equivalent to more than 3.6 million yuan.
The house was tailored to Holden's size, including a gate for him to enter and exit and a reinforced toilet worth more than 27,000 yuan.
It also has a specially reinforced bed, and even the floor is reinforced. And these configurations are all designed to help Holden lose weight and exercise.
However, it backfired.
When Holden moved in, he was bedridden except for a few steps between the bathroom, kitchen and bedroom every day when he was addressing his personal needs.
"If I take a few more steps, I put a lot of pressure on my head and it feels like I'm doing a handstand on a roller coaster. It's dangerous. ”
When asked why he doesn't move, he explains.
It didn't take long for him to resume his habit of overeating, such as eating four packets of potato chips for breakfast and drinking three or four liters of Coke a day.
Slowly, his weight returned to more than 600 pounds, and his health continued to deteriorate.
In June 2022, the super-obese person developed a blood clot due to his weight, which caused swelling all over his body.
After being taken to the hospital, doctors diagnosed him with complete internal organ failure, so much so that he suspected that he would not see the sun the next day.
Luckily, though, he survived and was sent to a nursing home.
There, he was prescribed to eat only low-calorie food, and his water intake was restricted, allowing him to drink only 1.5 liters a day.
This made Holden very angry, and he said, "I know that I am lucky to be alive, but now that I am restricted from eating and drinking, I have no sense of luck." ”
He considered the restriction "torture" and violated his "human rights" and even threatened the nurse, "I will call the police." ”
But he forgot that he was receiving medical treatment, and that the cost of treatment was all taxpayers' money.
According to the Daily Mail, Holden's treatment alone cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of pounds. He has a brain controlled by food, and he doesn't care about any of this at all.
Towards the end of life
Despite his poor health, he still orders takeaways, spending £16 a day on cheese sandwiches.
"I knew I was going to get very sick eventually, but I believe I had more time." He said. But by doing so, he is burying himself with his own hands.
In 2023, he was admitted to the hospital again because of breathlessness.
At one point, the doctors considered taking him to the zoo and using an X-ray machine to examine zebras, because the hospital equipment could not accommodate his body.
However, in the end, it was abandoned due to cost issues.
In October of the same year, perhaps feeling that his physical condition was extremely poor, Holden told the media: "I think I don't have much time left, I'm about to turn 34, I have to try to do something." ”
What he said was that he could be injected with the "miracle drug for weight loss" semaglutide as soon as possible.
This drug has a very prominent weight loss effect and few side effects. Trials have shown that it can help users lose 15.3 kg in 68 weeks.
Since its launch, it has been highly sought after, leading to shortages of drugs and tens of thousands of people waiting in line, including Holden.
And in addition to meeting the criteria for being overweight, the user must be able to ensure that he or she is on a diet and exercising.
But looking back at Holden's previous approach, it is clear that he was unable to do the latter. And fate also made him unable to take this medicine.
On May 4, 2024, Holden, who is about to turn 34, was pronounced dead due to organ failure.
Afterwards, his mother, Lysa, revealed, "Because my son is too big, he needs to prepare two cemeteries." And the average hearse can't hold him.
Others were worried, "Can a normal crematorium accommodate him?" Such an ending is really embarrassing.
epilogue
As the saying goes, "One white covers a hundred ugliness, and one fat destroys all." ”
From a health point of view, obesity not only destroys the image, but also causes harm to the body.
Therefore, I would like to remind everyone here that we should eat scientifically, eat too much, and exercise moderately, so as to ensure the health of the body.
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