{"id":19582,"date":"2025-07-23T15:12:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T15:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=19582"},"modified":"2025-07-23T15:12:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T15:12:15","slug":"6-years-ago-this-man-weighed-450-kg-but-lost-weight-for-the-woman-he-loves-this-is-what-he-looks-like-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=19582","title":{"rendered":"6 Years Ago This Man Weighed 450 Kg But Lost Weight For The Woman He Loves: This Is What He Looks Like Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over time, Paul stopped even getting out of bed: couriers delivered groceries right to his bed. His story caused a resonance\u2026<br \/>\n6 years ago this man weighed almost 450 kg and was considered one of the heaviest people in the world. But one day his life changed dramatically when he met a woman and fell in love. For the sake of his beloved woman, the man lost weight, started eating right and doing sports. Now he weighs only 120 kg, and has become unrecognizable.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Mason was once considered one of the heaviest men in the world, weighing a terrifying 450 kilograms. Because of this, the man completely lost the ability to lead a normal life \u2013 he did not leave the house and spent whole days lying on his bed, escaping from reality with the help of video games.<br \/>\nOver time, Paul stopped even getting out of bed: couriers delivered groceries right to his bed. His story caused a resonance wide. A documentary was made about Paul, which was shown on major TV channels.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people saw a sad picture: a huge, lonely 50-year-old man, bedridden and deprived of a chance for a normal existence.<\/p>\n<p>Paul himself admitted that he felt unhappy and that food became a way for him to escape from pain and problems. One day, a woman named Rebecca watched the film. Paul\u2019s story touched her heart so much that she decided to write him a letter.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_9964-280x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_9964-280x300.png 280w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_9964.png 746w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><br \/>\nTo Rebecca\u2019s surprise, Paul responded. Thus began a correspondence that soon grew into real feelings. For the sake of love and for the sake of a new life, Paul made a fateful decision \u2013 to start fighting for himself.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_9965-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_9965-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_9965.png 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><br \/>\nThe struggle was long and difficult. Six years of incredible efforts, strict diets, surgeries and daily work on himself gave an amazing result: Paul lost 305 kilograms. However, the rapid weight loss left its mark \u2013 the skin, stretched by many years of fat reserves, hunger in huge folds, interfering with movement and reminding of the past.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_9966-300x207.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_9966-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_9966-768x529.png 768w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_9966.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nPaul then underwent a complex operation to remove excess skin, after which his weight was only 120 kilograms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over time, Paul stopped even getting out of bed: couriers delivered groceries right to his bed. His story caused a resonance\u2026 6 years ago this man weighed&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19586,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19582\/revisions\/19586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}