A mother of four who at one point weighed more than her whole family put together has lost a staggering 31 stone. Just two years ago Marie Eaton tipped the scales at 50 stone – a whopping five stone more than her husband and four children combined. But following a rapid weight loss regime, she has overcome the bulk that mean she couldn't even get up the stairs. The housewife from Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire had piled on the pounds after her mum died in her arms from a heart attack. She blew up from a petite nine stone as a 16-year-old to over 50 stone by her 40th birthday after gorging on comfort food to cope with the loss. The constant scoffing lead to her becoming one of Britain's fattest women, consequently leaving her housebound and suffering from agoraphobia. Marie explained: “I was normal weight up until I was sixteen. But then my mum died, and it hit me really hard. “She died of a heart attack in my arms. She was with us one minute and gone the next. “From that moment onwards I comfort ate. It was my way of coping with the trauma of it all. “It just spiralled from there. My social life diminished as I hid myself away. “I was so ashamed, I stayed at home and became agoraphobic. I knew that the sofa wouldn't collapse beneath me unlike chairs in public. “I couldn't be embarrassed about my weight if I was locked away at home out of sight.” The 42-year-old admits that her overeating left her regarding the downstairs sofa as a bed because of difficulties that curtailed her movement. But it was those mobility problems that eventually helped spur her to seek a change. “At my heaviest, I couldn't even get up the stairs - I was forced to sleep on the sofa,” she said. “I'd drink litres of fizzy drinks and eat £40 of takeaway in a single sitting on my own at least four nights a week. “But around my 40th birthday I remember seeing myself in the mirror and thinking my body was close to giving up. “I knew that I had to change otherwise I'd leave my children motherless,” she said. “I used that and my fear of my children growing up motherless to stop eating junk food and turn my life around.”. Her crash diet meant Marie restricted herself to just 800 calories a day – and a finish to her never-ending noshing. She binned the two liters of fizzy drinks, whole bags of multipack crisps, six chocolate bars and two sausage rolls that made up her daily diet and replaced them with salads, white meat and water. By the time she had dropped 15 stone following the diet, doctors advised her to have a gastric sleeve — reducing her stomach's size by 25% ? in a bid to prevent her returning to her old ways of eating. Enlisting the help of a personal trainer, the pounds continued to slip away as she dropped a further 16 stone. And by the time it came for her to walk down the aisle last November, Marie was down to a relatively slimline 21 stone. A thrilled Marie added: “Every woman wants to look a million dollars on their wedding day, and I was no different. It became an obsession to lose the weight in time. “Changing my diet has been the biggest difference. Just not snacking and switching my food types has helped me shed most of my weight.
