Pick Me Up!

Pole position

Sitting in my car, I chowed down on the last biscuit.

Better bin this, I told myself, holding the empty packaging.

It was 2016, and I’d just given birth to my second child, Anastasia, now three.

I’ve never exactly been a slim chicken, but after falling pregnant in 2012 with my first child, Joseph, now six, I couldn’t stop eating.

As a lover of anything sweet, I would gorge on biscuits, chocolate and tasty treats.

After all, I was eating for two.

By the time I was seven months pregnant, I’d gained five stone.

I knew I needed to make a change

And after giving birth, instead of losing the weight, I just continued to eat.

‘I guess I’ll just be a big girl forever,’ I laughed to my husband, Matt, 30.

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