AN man shed 12st after his relationship ended due to him being overweight – and he now looks unrecognisable.
Finley Tyson felt like he was “holding back”; his girlfriend due to insecurities about his body.
The 25-year-old, who weighed 27st at his heaviest, says he used to struggle to look in the mirror.
He made the decision to overhauled his lifestyle after his two-year relationship ended.
Finley, who admitted to having “a crazy “, and chocolate and ditched McMuffins, toasties and pizza from his diet.
He dropped to 14st 9lbs – going from a size 4XL to an L – and people think he looks unrecognisable.
“The relationship ended mainly because I knew what I needed to do to lose the weight,”; Finley, from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, said.
“And I didn’t see how I could do it in a relationship.
“I was holding the other person back due to my insecurities with being overweight.
“I didn’t aim particularly to have a , I just wanted to be more healthy and feel better within myself.”;
The design and technical lead started hitting the gym six days a week after his break up in December 2023.
He also overhauled his diet, switching out Mcmuffins for and yoghurt and cheese toasties for burritos.
Finley said: “I cut down on processed food and sugar, moved more and tried to maintain as much muscle as possible.
“I have a crazy sweet tooth, so sugary drinks and sweets and chocolate were my biggest problem, as well as .
“I have cut full sugar drinks out and replaced with diet.
“I rarely have and cook tasty meals for myself instead.
“I gym in the evenings – six to seven days a week.
“Rest days are still usually in the gym on the stair master or treadmill, and I do around an hour and 15 minutes lifting with 30 minutes cardio.
“It took a lot of hard work, I nailed in my routine and started intermittent fasting.”;
is an eating pattern where you only eat during specific time windows, with the aim losing weight or boosting .
Many people will fast for 16 hours and have an eight-hour eating window, or go without food for a day or two a week.
For Finley, this involves skipping dinner.
“I don’t have dinner and fast from 1pm until 7am the next day.”;
Finley says his confidence has gone through the roof since his transformation
He said: “I definitely used to lack confidence.
“I would always wear jumpers and struggled to look in the mirror.
“Mentally I am so much healthier.
“My and general life have improved drastically and I’m so much more confident in my body.
“It has had such an impact on every aspect of my life and .”;
Finley shared his transformation on social media and viewers were awestruck.
One commenter joked: “Can someone break up with me?”;
Another said: “Just visible proof of how you’re doing mentally.
“Glad you are feeling better.”;
Lauren added: “I totally feel this.
“Not from relationships but just losing yourself and letting your physical and spiral until you don’t recognise yourself anymore.
“I call it the late 20s, early 30s glow up for me.”;
Finley added: “People always congratulate me on the work I have put in and most people regularly see how hard I worked to get to where I am.
“They always say how amazing I have done but I still respond with ‘getting there’ although I’m pretty much there.
“I’ve tried not to look at comments too much.
“A lot are about the idea of a person in a relationship having to work on themselves during not after, but sometimes it doesn’t work like that and everyone’s circumstances are different.
“I don’t really care much about negativity, I’ve worked too hard on myself to care about negative opinions.”;
