A woman who hid a food addiction from her family ditched the pounds after getting stuck in a plane seat - shedding a whopping nine stone. Jill Rutherford, 53, started piling on the pounds during her first job as a seamstress aged 16, tucking into sweet treats in between stitches.
She was putting away four slices of bread at breakfast, five slices for lunch, four in the evening, and could demolish an entire breadbasket at the local chippy - all before dinner. The self-confessed ‘secret eater’ used to scoff three chocolate bars on the drive home and then hide the evidence from husband John, 56.
At her biggest, Jill tipped the scales 20st 10lb and once split the seams on her size 26 trousers. The most 'mortifying' experience was when Jill found herself 'wedged' in a plane seat during a trip to Dubai and ended up arriving 'black and blue' from bruising.
