Personal trainer Paul "PJ" James balloons to 110kg 'for gym clients'
A PERSONAL trainer who started eating chips and burgers to better understand his gym clients is now officially obese - and hating it.
Paul "PJ" James, a former underwear model, has gone from strutting catwalks at 80kg to 110kg in three months.
He is ploughing through the junk food - up to 30 slices of pizza in one binge sitting - and the money.
"It's just very expensive to be unhealthy," he told the Herald Sun.
"I used to spend about $80 on food a week. I could easily spend $300 now."
James has stopped exercising in a bid to max-out at 120kg.
"Just to put my socks on and physically do my shoe up, because my guts are in the way, it's hard and it gets my heart rate right up," he said.
But things aren't all that bad for James.
He won international attention when he revealed his weight goal, and is now in talks with producers of Ellen DeGeneres' US talk show about a possible appearance when he hits 120kg.
He also has appeared on Brazilian, German and US TV, and is looking for a distributor for a documentary he is filming about the experience.
"If I can show people how hard it is to be this big, hopefully it will motivate people not to make the choices I have," he said.
