A morbidly obese dad lost more than 22st (139.7kg) after ditching a £140 a week takeaway food habit and has gone on to scoop a major slimming award.
Kenny Higgins, 48, could "barely walk" at his heaviest which saw him weigh 34st 7lbs (206.3kg).
The dad decided to turn his life around after collapsing in a supermarket while shopping with his then six-year-old daughter Hope.
The weight loss champ now weighs 12st 7lb having lost almost two thirds of his body weight which won him Slimming World's Greatest Loser 2025.
Kenny Higgins, 48, could "barely walk" at his heaviest which saw him weigh 34st 7lbs (206.3kg).
The dad decided to turn his life around after collapsing in a supermarket while shopping with his then six-year-old daughter Hope.
The weight loss champ now weighs 12st 7lb having lost almost two thirds of his body weight which won him Slimming World's Greatest Loser 2025.
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00:00I was big as a child, big as an adult, and I progressively got bigger.
00:06I wasn't able to walk properly.
00:10My health was just terrible.
00:12I was prone to all sorts of ailments, asthma, chest infections, not being able to breathe,
00:20constant hospital visits, oedema in the legs.
00:25I've never been able to do much for the people around me that I care about.
00:31My name's Kenny Higgins.
00:33I've lost 22 stone with Slimming World.
00:37Going back to Slimming World was an emotional experience.
00:42In a previous time I'd gone to Slimming World, I'd lost 17 stone, and I always thought, because
00:49I put the weight back on, that I'd let myself down and everything.
00:53But I couldn't have been further from the truth, you know.
00:55I'll never forget the first time I did walk back in there, and that greeting I got.
01:00That made me feel wonderful.
01:02The magic of group, I think for me, is accountability.
01:06When we're all backing each other up, right, and we all know what we've got to do.
01:09We say what we're going to try to achieve.
01:10If we manage to achieve it, then great.
01:12If we don't, so be it.
01:13We go away, we come back again, but we keep losing.
01:16I'm there for them, they're there for me.
01:19Something you wouldn't get if you didn't stay in a group.
01:21We don't pay our fees for, like, you know, just to come in and get weighed.
01:25We could do that at home.
01:26It's the wisdom of the consultants and, like, you know, the extra information that, you know,
01:32we get.
01:33It's a family that you choose.
01:35Not everything goes our way, but, you know, we're always there for each other.
01:39Yeah, I love it.
01:41I was spending £140 a week on takeaways minimum.
01:46I stopped getting takeaways altogether, which, no word of a lie, caused the takeaway owner
01:54to contact me to see if I was okay.
01:58Changing those habits to healthier foods, a lot of chicken, fruit, vegetables now.
02:05I never gave decent food a chance.
02:08Slimming World changed that.
02:11My activity plan was basically akin to Forrest Gump.
02:14I just left the house and started walking.
02:16I made myself go out every day, rain, shine, sun, sleet, whatever, and I got a little further
02:24every day.
02:26I enjoyed my walks after being cooped up for 20 years and not being able to do much.
02:34I was working initially to, like, just be able to go around the zoo with my daughters,
02:39and now I'm thinking about doing a 5K, and I've only started running recently.
02:44You know, you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything.
02:47I feel like I have a chance to succeed.
02:51I've only succeeded in a couple of things I wanted to do.
02:54I kept my promise to my daughters.
02:56I kept my promise to myself.
02:59I made my friends proud of me that helped me get back to Slimming World.
03:04I've helped inspire a few people and, in turn, they've inspired me.
03:11I think I've actually finally found that silver lining people talked about.