A 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.
