An Australian father is leaving his wife and two children to live in Thailand for ten weeks in a drastic bid to lose weight after one of his children called him fat.
Jimmy Mitchell, 38, from Western Australia, told FEMAIL he will leave his family behind on January 12 in a determined bid to shed the pounds.
Mitchell said he has been concerned about his weight since he left the Navy in 2011 and even more so after becoming a father nine years ago.
The father of two said being overweight is “little by little eroding” his mental health and mental health.
And a comment from one of his sons, calling him “fat,” “really came to mind.”
“It’s hard to set a good example for kids (about health and fitness) when I’m not in the best shape and I’m out of breath playing sports with them,” he said.
So, to start the year, he has signed up for extremely intense physical training, supervised by Muay Thai masters, which involves four hours of daily exercise divided into two sessions.
Training sessions will include 5-10km running, shadow boxing, boxing with others and other cardiovascular exercises.
Jimmy Mitchell, from Western Australia, told FEMAIL he will go to Thailand on January 12 to focus on losing weight and getting fit.

While in Thailand, Jimmy has two main goals: to participate in a professional Muay Thai fight and to get in shape by losing 15kg.
Jimmy, his wife Pauline and their two children Riley, eight, and Liam, nine, have been living in Southeast Asia for the past two years and currently reside in Malaysia.
‘My weight has slowly increased. Four years ago I weighed 126kg, the heaviest I had ever been. “I now weigh about 118kg,” said Jimmy, co-founder of digital marketing agency My Online Guy.
‘When I joined the navy in 2004 I weighed 68kg, when I left in 2011 I weighed 89kg and was much fitter back then.
Jimmy said the weight gain made him worry about his family history of diabetes. If he can, he also wants to avoid the same fate.
‘My weight has definitely affected me emotionally. “When I got to the beach I felt self-conscious, so I put on a T-shirt,” Jimmy added.
‘During our time abroad as a family, we have had some crazy adventures and activities, but I haven’t been able to do some because I was too heavy.
“It’s quite embarrassing to have to stay on the sidelines and not be able to get involved.
“My family has been absolutely amazing and working to fix it, but it’s been hard for me.”
Jimmy currently works out two or three days a week and has been practicing Muay Thai for 18 months. He starts the day with a protein shake before working all day on his business, which he admitted has contributed to the problem.
Lunch is usually two wraps and dinner with the family ranges from chicken or beef with vegetables to Malay dishes.

The 38-year-old has been concerned about his weight since leaving the navy in 2011 and even more so after becoming a father nine years ago.
While in Thailand, Jimmy has two main goals: to participate in a professional Muay Thai fight and to get in shape by losing 15kg.
“I want to prove to myself and others that I can do this even though I’m a little older,” he said.
‘The fight will force me to get in shape. I want to be prepared.’
When Jimmy told his wife Pauline about the idea of going to Thailand alone, she was “really understanding” as she is aware of how self-conscious her husband is because of his weight.
She was more worried about Jimmy competing in a fight than spending more than two months away from her and her children.
The couple sold everything they owned to move their family of four overseas after failing to afford a comfortable life in Australia.
Jimmy previously told FEMAIL that he was working non-stop to earn a decent amount of money, but felt like he was “never going to get ahead” and would sometimes come home crying.
At the time, the couple was renting a four-bedroom house in Mandurah, an hour south of Perth, and was struggling to save for a house deposit despite working long hours.

Jimmy, his wife Pauline and their two children Riley, eight, and Liam, nine, have been living in Southeast Asia for the past two years and currently reside in Malaysia.
“The main reason we decided to travel full time was to improve our quality of life and spend more time together as a family,” Jimmy said.
The couple haven’t looked back since making the leap and aren’t sure when, or if, they will return to Australia permanently.
‘In Australia we made a lot of money; This is what I couldn’t understand. We had good jobs, but we always felt like we weren’t moving forward,” Jimmy said.
“The more I worked and the harder I worked to earn the money to have things, the less time I spent with my family.”
The stress felt like such a burden that Jimmy would sometimes come home from work crying, and everything was “getting progressively worse.”
‘I would come home and tell Pauline: “I can’t live like this anymore.” And that was a combination of the fact that we were both working in the business, the kids were in school and we had barely seen each other,” he said.
“We were fed up and couldn’t continue.”
Pauline agreed, saying that each day felt like a repeat of the last.
‘We felt like we were living the same stagnant life. “You just do the same thing day after day and there’s no letup,” he said.
“Even on the weekends you think you’ll spend some time with your family or go somewhere, but the plans never materialized.” Due to the stress of running a business, even on quick family getaways, the couple was always receiving calls or emails from staff and clientele.