Mum who almost capsized boat on holiday loses 14 STONE with shopping trick
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA mum who almost capsized a boat on a family holiday has shed half of her body weight with exercise and healthy eating. Rachel Mellor, a former teaching assistant, was 28 stone and size 32 at her biggest, but celebrated turning 50 this year at 13 stone 10 lb.
Rachel, now a size 14, says being put on a diet at just six-years-old triggered an unhealthy relationship with food that followed her through life.
The final straw came when the mum-of-two was holidaying at the seaside with her two daughters Catherine, 12, and university student Elizabeth, 23, with her accountant husband Richard, 52. "We were living in Scarborough on the North Yorkshire coast at the time and I decided to take the kids out on a boat," Rachel, said. “It was a big thing, with at least 20 or so people on it already. READ MORE: ‘I was told I was headed for an early grave, now I've got a six-pack’ "But when I went to get on the boat dipped hugely under me.
With that many people on it already, you’d think one more wouldn’t make a difference. I was so embarrassed. "I was ordered to sit right in the middle of the boat.
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