A single-mum who had ballooned to 20 stone said she did not recognise herself in old photos.
Kimberley Hempton packed on the pounds as she struggled with binge eating packets of crisps, chocolate and fast food.
The 38-year-old nurse from Stockport decided it was time to change her ways after the birth of her daughter, the Liverpool Echo reported .
She’s now shed almost six stone and no longer recognises herself in old photos.
Kimberley said: "My problem is binge eating. I can't just have one, if I open a multipack of crisps I'll have three or four packets out of it.
"I just grabbed food when I could as [my daughter] would be sleeping. I'd think 'I'll just have a chocolate bar' but it wasn't just one chocolate bar it would be five.
"It was whatever was to hand - convenience food. I had a little one and especially because I was on my own with her, once she was asleep in bed I couldn't go out anywhere so I would have what was in the house."
Kimberley said her daughter was her "motivation" for losing weight as she wanted to be able to run around after when she was older.
She joined Slimming World a month after giving birth, and at the time she weighed 20st 13lbs.
Kimberley said: "I didn't even realise I'd got that big, that's the biggest I've ever been.
"When I look back at pictures now I think 'how did I get to that size and not realise I was that size?' Because I've lost weight and I can look at myself now, it is a little bit shocking.
"I think I got complacent. I was eating what I could whenever I could."
Kimberley joined her local Slimming World group with a friend and has completely changed her diet whilst also taking up running in her spare time.
Kimberley said: "I make sure I always eat breakfast now, I find if I skip it by 11am I was eating something I shouldn't.
"I eat three meals a day and I find I don't really need to eat in between the meals. If I do snack I snack on the right things."
