A desperate mum who spent £4,000 on takeaways in one year feared she'd "eat herself to death" and leave her kids without a mum.
Ashlie Foster, 25, would start each day with two bowls of Cocopops, followed by Subway for lunch, chocolate throughout the day and a large meal for tea.
Her weight crept up to 17st, with the speech and language therapy student from Aintree, Liverpool, consuming about 4,000 calories every day.