Pole position
Jan 30, 2020
5 minutes
WORDS BY HANNAH POON AND HARRIET ROSE-GALE
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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