Formerly Australia's fattest-man, Andre Nasr has revealed he lost 200 kilograms in the year since he was hospitalised and near-death due to his weight.

Weighing in at 470kg before he was hospitalized, he was consuming a staggering 50,200 kilojoules or 12,000 calories a day — six times the average consumption recommended for Australians.

He had become so fat a wall had to be removed from his home so that health workers could reach him and move him to hospital where he joined a specialist treatment program.

In the exclusive interview with Sunday Night, Andre also revealed he has cut ties with his parents, which he said was necessary to his recovery.

Even when he was too big to move anymore, Andre's mother would bring him food, sometimes delivering it through the bedroom window.

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"They are out of my life," he said.

"If I was to pick up the phone and call them I know they would still come with food so the fact that they are not in my life means that temptation isn't there."

"People have a funny way of showing love sometimes"

It has been a lifelong struggle with food for Andre, one he likens to an addiction, and he was clinically obese by the age of three. By the time he was 18 he weighed 200 kilograms.

While he previously took full responsibility for his weight, Andre now says his well-meaning parents contributed to the problem.

Eventually, at age 35, his weight threatened to kill him. He was in a critical state with pneumonia and infected skin ulcers between his folds of fat.

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Dr Nic Kormas is a specialist in the field of obesity, working at Sydney's Concord hospital and says there are as many as 1000 Australians trapped in their homes by obesity.

In 2014 Andre wrote to him with a letter pleading for help.



"I am not ready to die at 35 years old," his letter said.

"I’m easily 400 kilograms if not more and I have been trapped in my house for at least the past two to three years. Please help me Dr Kormas I am begging you"



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