A DAD lost more than half his body weight on Mounjaro injections after his scales flashed an “embarrassing”; overload message while he was weighing himself.
Bryan Spark, 49, credited the for saving his life and stopping him from “eating himself to death”;.
On an average day, Bryan would eat over 5,000 calories – double what the NHS recommends for the average man – finishing off his son’s dinners, eating whole packs of , and drinking litres of .
The dad-of-three, from Castle Douglas, Dumfries and Galloway, decided enough was enough in November 2023, after seeing a picture of himself at his son’s birthday party.
At 33-stone, he couldn’t tie his own shoes or see his bathroom scales beneath his stomach.
Now, he’s lost 18 stone – which he credits to starting the £200 per month weight loss injection and, later, NHS-prescribed Mounjaro.
Bryan said: “It was embarrassing, it was horrendous. My wife was writing down my weights because I couldn’t see the scale.
“That sounds really stupid, but the size of my chest and stomach – I couldn’t see the scale anyway.
“When I stopped off it, it said ‘overload’ on the screen.”;
A full-time carer for his son and wife, Bryan decided to make his goal losing 10 stone – through a combination of diet and exercise, assisted by the weight loss injections.
Bryan bought an and went through three saddles after the pins bent under him.
He said: “I just kept replacing the seat and kept going, it’s when I started like that, I felt myself getting a bit healthier, being able to breathe a bit easier.
“I was always out of breath going up the stairs and literally doing anything.
“It was just horrendous, when you start seeing the difference, when your t-shirts are far too big for you.
“In the first six months I lost close to eight stone, it was just a huge difference.”;
Now a keen cyclist, Bryan, who now weighs 15 stone is planning a 1,000-mile bike ride from Lands End to John O’Groats in 2026, to celebrate his 50th birthday.
He thanked his doctor for giving him the motivation to go to a weight loss clinic, saying he “wouldn’t have survived”; without his drastic lifestyle changes.
He said: “I see in the news and the papers all the time, it always says ‘this could happen to you if you take these injections’, and tonnes could go wrong.
“There’s not a huge amount of positive stories out there – it’s been life saving, I don’t think I would have lived much longer, I was a heart attack waiting to happen, amongst other things.
“I was eating myself to death really.”;
He added: “My attitude towards life has improved, I’m a lot happier in myself.
“My family have supported everything, my wife loved me no matter what size I was, but obviously she was concerned about the size of me and illnesses.
“The differences, my goodness I can do stuff. I can go for walks, I can tie my shoelaces, it’s stupid things.
“My stomach was in the way, I always wore slip-on trainers and put my laces in my shoes because I couldn’t do it.
“I was struggling with everything, it sounds a bit dramatic, but literally I was struggling with everything and not able to do much.”;
