Dumped Jack now turning girls' heads after becoming a body builder
When Jack Darby's girlfriend dumped him for being 'too chubby', he decided the best revenge would be to get in shape.
And after 18 months pumping iron at the gym, the trainee doctor from Wolverhampton is a body-builder – and says his ex now wants him back. Leicester University medical student Jack, aged 23, swapped his lifestyle of boozy nights out and fast food for a healthy diet and a strict exercise regime.
As a result, he has also traded his love handles for toned muscles and can now lift one-and-a-half times his own body weight.
He said: "When I walk around campus now, there's groups of girls looking at me. It's yielded a much-increased level of attention when I go clubbing, too," he added.
Nowadays, 5ft 11in Jack might typically eat porridge and natural yoghurt with blueberries for breakfast, along with a protein shake. He then has pasta with lean ground beef and broccoli for lunch, and sautéed chicken breasts with sweet potato and avocado for supper. Four years ago, a normal day's food was more likely to consist of a bacon sarnie, Super Noodles and garlic bread and a microwave burger and chips for dinner – plus crisps, muffins and chocolate bars he'd snack on throughout the day.
Happily loved up with his long-term girlfriend at the time, Jack, then 19, became uncomfortable with her drooling over men with toned physiques, and said he was made to feel ashamed of his 14.5st figure.
He said: "I felt like it did affect the relationship in a sense. We became less intimate for sure. I knew in my head I didn't look great, so I didn't feel great." After six months of lifting weights and doing cardio at his university gym, Jack has lost three stones of fat and replaced it with pure muscle. He now weighs in at a toned-up 14st.
He also began body-building and in May he will enter his first major body-building competition, at the Body Power Festival.
Soon, Jack will be a full-time doctor, but he also hopes to become a personal trainer in his spare time. And he is now looking for love. His ex recently emailed him after hearing he had broken up with another girlfriend and that he had toned up.
