Ana Sirbu, 28, from York, shed an impressive 18st in a single year
She managed the feat by cutting carbs and signing up for counselling
The former pizza chef now weighs a slimline 13st and is much healthier
Tipping the
scales at 32st and living on a diet of pizza and chips but too scared to
sleep in case she stopped breathing, 28-year-old Ana Sirbu knew she had
to do something about her weight.
One
year on, the Romanian former pizza chef, who lives in York, looks
nothing like her heavyweight former self and is now a slim size 14,
after embarking on a healthy diet and fitness regime.
'Before
I lost the weight, I felt trapped in my own body,' she says. 'I
couldn't be myself as I couldn't move or do anything I wanted to do.
'But now I feel free. I feel like I can do absolutely anything I wasn't to do and I can be as active as I want.'
Ana's
problems began five years ago, when a combination of lengthy shifts, a
fondness for pizza and comfort eating resulted in slow but steady weight
gain.
Her habit of
tucking into piles of carb-laden Italian food at 5am at the end of her
shifts didn't help and before long, Ana realised that she was tipping
the scales at a mighty 32st.
'The funny thing is, I wouldn't even say that I had an obsession with food or anything like that,' she explains.
'I
simply ate the wrong things at the wrong time, for example at 5am in
the morning when I got in from work before going to sleep, which is not
healthy at all.'
Ana,
who says she was 'normal-sized' as a child, was left unable to work out
because her weight made it hard to breathe and even found doing daily
chores difficult.
'My
weight affected everything in my life,' she remembers. 'I couldn't do
the housework; I couldn't even walk to the corner shop to buy a loaf of
bread.
'I
even got turned down for a job because of my size – the manager telling
me that they couldn't have anyone working in their kitchen as big as
me.'
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