Jon FavreauJon Favreau has revealed he’s lost 85lbs (6 stone) in just five months after being put on a diet by his doctor wife.

Jon has struggled with his weight for a number of years but realised action needed to be taken when he was approaching 300lbs (21 stone) just before his 40th birthday last year.

He told People magazine recently: “I finally said to [my wife Joya] one day, ‘I think at my age - I was pushing 40 at the time - that this is not the weight my body wants to be.’ And she said, ‘Well, you can lose weight.’”

Joya, a doctor of internal medicine, worked with her colleagues to device a plan to help Jon drop 5lbs a week: “I went to Joya because she has always been my partner.”

As Jon Favreau inched closer to his 40th birthday, he was also pushing 300 lbs. Ready for a change, the star turned to his wife Joya, a doctor of internal medicine.

“I would feel weird if I ate the way I used to.”