‘GUINNESS is good for you’ or so the saying goes . . . and Barnsley builder Simon Ford proves it’s true.

A diet of nothing but the black stuff has helped him lose seven-and-a-half stones in three months.

At his heaviest he was a stout 25-and-a-half stones but now tips the scales at 18 stones. His ‘crash diet’ started when he had a car accident in February.

Simon, 35, said: “I couldn’t eat for about six weeks, it was just Guinness. Every time I ate I was sick.

“I wasn’t trying to lose weight it just fell off as I was working 20 hours a day as well.”

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