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Nov 14

British mum reveals diet that helped her lose 41kg after death of unborn baby – 7NEWS

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A heartbroken mum lost 41kg after doctors said her weight could have contributed to her unborn baby's death.

Charlotte Doughty, 43, was filled with "self-loathing" when she discovered her 24-size figure could have triggered the tragic outcome.

During the pregnancy the British woman was diagnosed with pre-diabetes in early 2015 and doctors said her weight was seriously impacting her health.

Tragically Charlotte's unborn baby was later diagnosed with Edwards Syndrome, a genetic disorder, and passed away in the womb at 37 weeks.

Due to Charlotte's family history of diabetes, her later age and obesity, she was at a higher risk of developing diabetes.

Grief-stricken, Charlotte, from King's Lynn, Norfolk, became locked in a vicious circle of eating and drinking to help numb some of the pain she was feeling.

"I fell pregnant later on in life when I was 37-38 and I was massively overweight probably around 15-16 stone at that point," Charlotte says.

"I was told by health professionals that my weight along with my age may have played a factor in my babys condition.

"Due to my grief and self-loathing that I may have caused my babys condition, my eating escalated further and despite the warnings from my GP, I continued to eat fast food and drink pints of lager. "

"I blamed myself, at the time I did think what if I hadn't been as big as I was, would things have been different? "When that happened I just swung completely the other way. I started eating more and drinking more to get through the pain.

"It became a vicious circle of feeling depressed about my weight by turning to food and alcohol."

But being so big was impacting Charlotte's life.

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"I was drinking really heavily, I would have a bottle of wine at night and then at the weekend I would drink eight pints in the evening," she admits.

"Then I joined Slimming World in 2017 and haven't looked back since. I'm still not a great cook but it's just simple food- you don't need to be the best cook in the world.

"I then started walking which gradually turned into running. My partner was a godsend. If I was crying and telling him I couldn't do it, he would pick me up and tell me I can."

Charlotte followed Slimming Worlds Food Optimising eating plan and started cooking healthy meals from scratch.

In less than two years, she has already lost 41kg and has dropped from dress size 24 to a size 12.

"I really am a completely different person, I look back at old photos of myself and I don't recognise her," she says.

"I honestly feel ten years younger. For a long while I couldn't get my head around how much I had lost. Probably six months back I would still look at myself and feel like I was really big.

"The past six months I have really changed. Before I was hiding away from photos but now I don't mind them. "My self-esteem is massively different and it's really helped my confidence.

"Slimming World has literally saved my life as I was only heading one way."

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