TV and radio personality Mikey Robins came close to dying before he underwent serious weight loss surgery.
Today, after achieving his weight loss success, Robins is a shadow of his former self after lapband surgery last year.
"The happy fat guy thing's a lie. You're not happy, I was never happy," he tells ABC's Australian Story.
Robins said that his path to morbid obesity was one of self-destruction, that was result of the death of his father at aged 10.
His wife Laura described how Mikey's snoring led to a "crisis" in their marriage and she became worried about his health.
"You can't put someone you love through watching you slowly kill yourself," Mikey says.
Respiratory and sleep physician Dr. David Joffe said Robins was, indeed, killing himself.
"I suspect I was probably the first guy to actually examine him from tip to toe for a while, and to actually, you know, fairly bluntly tell him he was killing himself," Dr. Joffe says.
Dr Joffe detailed the extreme sleep apnoea Robins suffered, caused by his obesity, which meant he stopped breathing 70 times an hour.
"... There were really catastrophic drops in oxygen to levels as low as 68 per cent," Dr Joffe said.
"To put that in perspective: If I sent you to the top of (Mount) Everest your saturation would be 60 per cent, so you know, here's a guy who's climbing Everest 60 times an hour."
Vega breakfast radio co-host and friend since childhood Tony Squires said Robbins was a "new person" since he lost more than 50kg.
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