I was 30st and ate 12,000 cals a day to become world’s strongest man… docs warned me I was on brink of a heart attack

EDDIE HALL was once the strongest man in the world – but it almost came at the cost of his life.

Hall achieved the feat in 2017 – just a year before deadlifting a sensational 500lb.

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He weighed over 30 STONE and gorged on 12,000 calories-a-day – but it meant not being able to perform everyday tasks.

Clash Royale ambassador Hall told SunSport: “It wasn’t meals. It was constant grazing. It was like a cow.

“I’d just have something in my hand all day, whether it be a sandwich or a protein shake.

“A drink just constantly from every living waking moment was putting fuel in my body, and that was about 12,000 calories a day.

“Being 430lbs was was almost unbearable. I mean, even putting my socks on was it was a mammoth task.

“Climbing the stairs was a mammoth task. But if you asked me to pick up 500kg from the floor it was easy.

“But yeah, day to day stuff was pretty hard.”

Hall’s strongman regime was so dangerous it left doctors warning him it could be “life threatening” if he continued any longer.

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He said: “Oh, I was told by a doctor to stop several times before I won the World’s Strongest Man.

“Like blood markers through the roof, kidney and liver markers. Really on the brink.

“Just very at risk to all the things associated with being that size, heart attack, stroke, kidney failure, liver failure. All those things were on the brink.

“And luckily, nothing ever happened, but yeah, I was told by a doctor to stop several times.”

Hall, 36, retired from strongman in 2017 and has since fought in boxing and MMA.

He is now down to 25st and training eight times a week in MMA and weight sessions as part of his transformation into a fighter.

But more importantly, he is able to be a champion dad.

The father-of-three said: “I feel fit, feel great, feel young. I’m able to play with my kids, do things that anyone can do.

“So I feel really good and really lucky and really blessed to be in the position I’m in right now.”

Hall is now in talks to fight strongman-turned MMA fighter Mariusz Pudzianowski – with both weighing an almost combined 50st.

He said: “Marius is a hard, hard opponent. He is a hard get. So yeah, it’ll just be good to get in the ring with someone like Marius and do business.

“I think Marius, for his last fight was about 118 kg and my last fight was 165. So quite a big weight advantage.

“It’s it’s something that needs to happen.”

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