Inside China’s ‘fat prisons’ where insane workouts rule your life with no escape

China’s ‘fat prisons’ – where the obese are forced to spend 28 days losing weight (Picture: eggeats)

Obese Chinese people are flocking to ‘fat prisons’, where inmates work out nearly twelve hours a day and are forbidden to leave.

Visitors pay the equivalent of $1,000 (£740) to spend a month at the weight-loss camps in exchange for a bunk bed and three meals a day.

Chinese social media influencers are boasting about shedding up to 10kg a week at the military-style camps.

But their accounts of life at the centers ...