THIS IS ME

Lying on a sunbed next to my boyfriend Neal, then 28, I soaked up the sun’s rays.

It was June 2013, and we were on holiday in Spain with friends.

‘I wish I didn’t look so big in this bikini,’ I sighed to Neal.

‘Don’t be silly, you look great,’ he reassured me.

If only I felt it.

Over the past year, I’d put on so much weight – over 7st to be exact.

‘I feel so lethargic,’ I told my GP in April.

Having always been a healthy size 10, I couldn’t work out what was happening to my body.

But my