Emma at the peak of her overweight
A woman who was too overweight to wear a car seatbelt lost 20 stones through dieting and exercise after refusing to burden the taxpayer with NHS weight loss surgery.
Stone is a unit of measure equal to 14 pounds avoirdupois (about 6.35 kg) used in Great Britain and Ireland for measuring human body weight.
Emma Sealey, 35, from Redditch, believed she would die before she reached her 40th birthday unless she slimmed down her 28st 8lbs frame.
Despite family members urging her to petition her GP to have an NHS gastric band fitted, she decided to lose the weight naturally and lost an incredible 19st 9lb.
Emma new incredible size
She dropped from a size 32 to a size eight, slimming down to 8st 13lb in just two years.
She said: ‘I could barely walk from my house to my fiancé’s car, let alone walk around the block, and when I got there I couldn’t even fit the seatbelt over me.’
‘I hadn’t stepped on scales for years but when I found out how much I weighed I was disgusted with myself,’ she added.
‘I needed to do something about it, but I knew it was my problem and I had to get myself out of it. I didn’t want surgery on the NHS – I want the NHS to concentrate on spending money on people who actually need it.’
Emma started gaining weight in childhood after a close friend died.
She said: ‘I was devastated, and I expect it was one of the triggers for my comfort eating. I had a fairly tumultuous childhood. At one point I was sent to boarding school, and didn’t want to go home at the weekends because I was so unhappy there.
‘I found it easy to turn to food to cheer me up – things like chocolate and crisps. But the lift was always temporary. Before long I was overweight and I was suffering inside, feeling ashamed of myself.’
Emma after her weight loss with her fiancé Brian (left) and ready for a night out (right). Her weight started to fall away at a rate of a stone a month after she adopted a healthy eating plan
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