170 Pounds Losing Weight - Success Story
A woman who had resigned herself to "being a bigger lady" after reaching 310 pounds decided enough was enough when she overheard a stranger making a vile comment about her in a nightclub. Fran Drake, now 31, struggled with her size for much of her life after turning to comfort food when cruel school bullies nicknamed her 'Fat Fran'. Over the years she tried a handful of diets, including the 5:2 diet, but none of them kept the pounds off for long and she was stuck around a size 24. So she decided just to accept her body, and before long her confidence grew dramatically. She said: "If I couldn't change myself physically, I was going to change myself mentally. Just because you're not a size 8 doesn't mean you can't be happy in yourself." And in 2011 – then a size 18 - she started dating Matt after they got talking at a Christmas party. "Bagging myself a fit man really reinforced the idea that I could be happy in my own skin without ...