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”;.
Bryan Spark, 49, before his weight loss
Bryan would often eat over 5,000 calories and says he was ‘eating himself to death’
The dad lost more than half his body weight after starting weight-loss Mounjaro injections
He’s credited the drugs for saving his lifeOn an average day, Bryan would eat over 5,000 calories â double what the NHS recommends for the average man â 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 â 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 â 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 â 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.
Bryan decided to turn his life around after seeing a picture of himself at his son’s birthday party
He found himself getting out of breath going up the stairs
He bought himself an exercise bike at the start of his fitness journey and is now a keen cyclist
Bryan has described Mounjaro as life-savingHe 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 â 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.”;
Bryan is able to be more active now and enjoys being able to do the little things
He says he’s a lot happier in himself 
