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A mum whose weight left her so self-conscious she struggled to leave the house has revealed how she managed to shed more than nine stone.

Leah Gill’s unhealthy relationship with food meant she constantly fluctuated between binge eating and eating nothing at all.

The 34-year-old, from Stockport, always opted for beige oven food alongside eating whatever her children had left on their plates.

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Her unhealthy habits meant the mum-of-six also developed asthma – the condition being so severe she had to use an inhaler multiple times a day and caught chest infections several times a month.

And the school club supervisor wasn’t just suffering physically. The mum, who was a dress size 24, felt so embarrassed about her size she avoided going out and hid behind baggy clothes.

But she eventually decided to turn things around for good ahead of a family holiday – fearing she would need to ask for a seatbelt extender on the plane.

Signing up to Slimming World in September 2023, Leah watched as the weight dropped off – eventually shedding an incredible 9st 3.5lbs. The mum is now a dress size 10 and weighs in at 12st 3lb.

“I started because I knew I was so unhealthy,” Leah told the Manchester Evening News. “I struggled with really bad asthma to the point every month I was getting chest infections and having to go on steroids and antibiotics.

“I was on the blue inhaler numerous times a day, the brown one when needed and I also had a steroid one morning and night.

“The kids liked going on walks at the weekend but I couldn’t walk to the end of the street without being out of breath and needing to use my inhaler.

“I could never walk in (a shop) and