Guy Carlier unrecognizable: his difficult confidences on his bulimia and his incredible weight loss

An incredible transformation! Overweight for many years, Guy Carlier appears today transformed. While he has lost over 150 kilos, and now weighs 96 kilos when he was 251, it is in an interview with the Parisian that the chronicler confided: “I was operated on, Jean-Michel Cohen (the nutritionist) took charge of me … Talking about it on stage is to put people at ease. We all have our problems, all our dark sides (his, he calls him Carl in the show, as opposed to the nice Guitou). We hide them, we are ashamed of them. For years, with bulimia, I destroyed myself by telling myself that I was not a good guy. What I’m saying in the show is that we’re all the same, everyone has that. The main thing is to fire his Carls. Me, I consider that the 150 kilos that I lost, it is the part of Carl that I dumped. I haven’t become perfect. But when you have little left, you can’t waste time looking down on yourself.“

Referring to the trigger for his transformation, Guy Carlier explained: “It is love, the meeting with the woman of my life. I have been tormented all my life, there, I am serene.“Assuring that his son, Raphaël Carlier, alias Carlito, had suffered from his bulimia, it is in all transparency that the chronicler unveiled:”He knew me at the worst time when it came to bulimia. When it’s like that, you no longer have a family life, your wife catches you stealing filthy stuff from the fridge at night. I inflicted that on Raphy, I know he’s mad at me. He wrote a book in which he said that it is difficult to live with someone who is destroying themselves. I hope we can talk about it.“In May 2019, it is with pride that the star confided in Star TV. “It’s been a long time since I last had a binge eating. I took a psychological and surgical path: a bypass, a sleeve and necessary cosmetic surgery operations. When you lose that much weight, you have a lot of sagging skin. I was put on titanium knees because I had no more cartilage“, he had unveiled.

Guy Carlier is grateful to Jean-Michel Cohen

While he experienced the worst, the columnist had unveiled: “When my then-partner came home and found me on the spaghetti-covered floor without me being able to get up … It was too much humiliation for her. For me, that was the trigger for me to phone Jean-Michel Cohen. He had me locked up for nine months in a clinic where they treat addictions. He saved my life.“For his part, Jean-Michel Cohen had confided in the columns of Star TV : “He was in danger of death. Guy can be proud of his career. He lost half of his weight. He was part of the Top 5 of the biggest men over 50 in France. He was in danger of death and did not realize it. At the slightest infection, he would be dead. He was inoperable. His ankles could explode under the weight. I am happy for my friend.“

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