WATCH: Supersize Aftab - I'm not the bully TV show made me out to be
A 33-stone man, who spent five years unable to leave a chair in his living room, says he is not a bully, despite his portrayal in a TV documentary.
Aftab Ali, of West Bromwich, weighed 40 stone when he appeared in Channel 4's Shut Ins: Britain's Fattest People TV show.
The 31 year old has now pledged to help other people lose weight once he has finished shedding the pounds.
He was filmed over seven months and had cameras rigged up in his Bailey Street home.
But Mr Ali says he was not happy with the way he was portrayed, particularly in conversations with his wife Millie, aged 22, who is his carer.
"The way they cut it, to the world I looked like a bully," said Mr Ali.
"But which man and wife do you know who do not have arguments? My wife loves me to bits. She left her life in London and chose to be with me here," he said.
"She wanted to come despite the fact that I was at the bottom. She wanted to help me achieve my goals. She believed in me," he said.
Mr Ali also does not feel that he was fairly represented after falling out with his personal trainer Michael Hippolyte.
He said: "It makes it look like I was really bad towards him, but I apologised to him later. I wasn't happy. These things made me look bad."
The couple met through Facebook and have been married for two years. In that time Mrs Ali has had to help her husband as his carer while he was living in his chair.
The weight loss has given her new-found freedom.
She said: "His behaviour has changed and he is doing things for himself which I had to do for him before.
"I no longer have to be there all the time," she said.
"He has already made such a big change and I know he will go all the way with this."
The change in lifestyle was inspired after Mr Ali was diagnosed with type two diabetes. His goal is to now get down to less than 17 stone.
If he succeeds it will mean that he will have lost well over half the weight he was carrying at his heaviest.
If he gets there, Mr Ali wants to be a life coach and inspire others who are in similar situations.
"One day, when I have got myself well, I would like to help people in the same position," he said.
"I want people to say look that is Aftab from West Bromwich. He was 40 stone. He thought it was over for him, but believed in himself and lost the weight.
"The message is that if you believe in yourself, the world is your oyster."
