Anastasia Morris, 32, from Llanymynech, says she was a "chubby kid" growing up but her weight seriously rocketed in her late teens. Anastasia would go out for food or get a takeaway six nights a week, moving through fad diets but regaining any weight she lost. She ate up to 10k calories a day because food was a "comfort" after she had a "surprise" baby, Euan, now 12, when she was 19.
Last year after tipping the scales weighing 31st 13lbs - the highest weight her bathroom scales could record - and wearing size 36 clothes, she decided to make a change. She spent £17.5k on gastric bypass surgery in August 2023, and lost more than 3st 7lbs in the first month.
She says she has now lost 11st 10lbs in nine months, and now measures 19st 10lbs and is a size 22. She now aims to lose another 9st 10lbs to reach her goal weight. Anastasia, a logistics administrative assistant, said: "Growing up, food was my comfort - I would have dinner with my family then sneak out to the chippy and have a second meal.
"My mum put me on loads of diets - Slimming World, SlimFast, Weight Watchers - but I always put the weight back on. "After I moved out, I didn't realise how many calories I was consuming. "I would always be thinking 'what can I eat next?' and after I had my son the weight continued to creep up.
"It got to the point I could barely walk - I was too big for theme park rides and couldn't sit in booth seats at restaurants." She added: "Now people see me and don't even recognise me. "I can go o.
