A mum has revealed how she became addicted to sugar after giving birth to her daughter - sometimes scoffing five doughnuts a day and a jar of Nutella a week. Bryony Bateman, 33, from Bristol, would feel sluggish and relied on chocolate and sweets as a pick-me-up - but her unhealthy eating habits saw her tip the scales at 19 stone at her heaviest.
The carer, who shares daughter Eva, born in 2014, with her husband Neal, 38, would sneak downstairs in the middle of the night for a secret midnight feast. Her weight gain was also exacerbated by her thyroid cancer which she recovered from following an eight-hour operation on her throat.
But now the mum-of-one has lost more than 7st 5lbs after overcoming her addiction and looks like a different person since ditching the sweet treats and undergoing gastric bypass surgery. She said: "I relied on chocolate and sugar to get me through daily life. Once the sugar spike would begin to decline and I felt sluggish I would eat more sugar to get a sugar spike once again for energy.
