James Argent has shown off his toned body during a workout after losing 14 stone.
The former Towie star, 36, underwent a sleeve gastrectomy procedure after reaching 27 stone during the Covid lockdown.
And he showed off his muscles while exercising at Mikes Gym in Marbella wearing a pair of blue shorts and matching trainers.
The reality TV star ran up and down stairs while also using bars and a rope climb to workout in the Spanish sun.
After his gym trip, James enjoyed a run along the road to really push his limits.
He previously explained his weight gain happened due to acting out his ’emotions’ and then lockdown and Covid ‘didn’t help’.
James’ doctor even told him he was ‘on death row’ as the TV star was unable to tie his shoelaces, was finding it hard to breathe and joked he couldn’t see his own penis.
Speaking on The Mail’s podcast Straight To The Comments!, James said: ‘You know when you get comments like, “You look well, keep going,” it does spur you on, it does make you feel better.’
But there are downsides, as he admitted: ‘I think you’ve got to be quite careful, if it’s about someone looking healthy, I think – I used to say to myself, “the more weight you lose the better,” so the skinnier you are the better, but that isn’t actually the case because there are times when you’re too skinny.’
‘And even now I’m trying to up my protein a little bit and trying to gain a little bit more.’
The star has been open about his struggles with binge eating and drug addiction, speaking about hitting ‘rock bottom’ which sparked his lifestyle overhaul.
‘My lowest point was just when I hit rock bottom, and I was in an awful place,’ he told The Sun.
‘You know, there’s been times, it was well documented, that I’d end up in an ambulance and be taken to hospital and things like that. But I’m a long way away from that now.
‘Sometimes you have to be careful. Your brain can say to you like, “Oh, was it really that bad?” Or, “It will be different this time, you can control it this time”.
‘I have to be reminded, it’s important for me to be reminded about how bad things were.’
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