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SETTLING down for bed, Lindsay Melville knew she was in for another night of hell.

She had been recently diagnosed with a chronic snoring condition and told she'd need to sleep with an oxygen mask.

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But Lindsay, from Dartford, Kent, felt ashamed - she knew she had brought the problem on herself.

The learning and development manager's weight had been gradually creeping on but she had finally tipped the scales at 25st 1lb.

Doctors advised her the best option was a gastric band - but she was determined to lose the weight herself.

And incredibly the 37-year-old managed to shed a whopping 13st 13lb - in just a year.

Lindsay now weighs 11st 12lb and wears a svelte size 10.

She said: "I feel amazing. Its so great to be fit and healthy again with a balanced approached to eating."

Lindsay said her overeating started when she was just a child.

I found myself hiding food and secret binging from a young age

I have three older siblings, and as a child I would always want exactly same amount of food as them," she said.

"Life was a competition and if they had an extra roast potato, I wanted one, too.

"When we were growing up, we didnt have many rules around food, other than you must finish everything on your plate.

"Being able to provide food was my parents way of showing love and affection.

"And despite food being plentiful, I found myself hiding food and secret binging from a young age."

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When she reached her adult years she tried dieting, but found that every time she lost weight, she would just pile more back on each time.

Then in 2016, her dad died and she admits her emotional eating started to spiral.

The following year she says she was effectively demoted through a restructure at work.

And then in 2018, she was diagnosed with severe obstructive sleep apnoea and borderline hyperventilation.

The condition is caused by the walls of the throat relaxing and narrowing during sleep, interrupting normal breathing.

It can cause sufferers to snore loudly but also make gasping, snorting or choking noises.

In the long-term, people with condition usually feel extremely tired, have mood swings and find it hard to concentrate.

Lindsay says she was in a cycle as she would wake up tired and start looking for food to give her energy.

But it had also meant her weight had escalated.

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She said:"I was so ashamed that I had done that to myself.

"The sleep clinic advised me to have a gastric band to lose the weight quickly, but I was adamant I would not go down the surgery route.

"I wouldnt let myself live the rest of my life having to wear an oxygen mask at night.

I was so ashamed that I had done that to myself

"After my diagnosis, I made the firm decision to lose weight."

She said she had two friends at work who'd had great results with weight loss plan LighterLife.

"The cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) group sessions really appealed to me this wasnt anything Id tried before," she said.

Lindsay signed up to her local group in Dartford in February 2018.

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She said:"I stepped on the scales and was shocked to see how much weight Id put on. I was 25st 1lb.

"I had been living in complete denial.

"I was told that on the LighterLife Total plan Id lose roughly a stone a month, so I knew Id be committing the remainder of the year to changing my life, and I was ready."

Lindsay says she "relished" in the weekly CBT group sessions, adding:"Not only was it great to share the journey with people who understand, it made me hold myself accountable to my behaviour.

"I also learnt things about myself that extend beyond my relationship with food into all parts of my life.

I had been living in complete denial

"I was able to recognise the emotional triggers that caused me to overeat and understand how my perfectionist ways were constantly setting me up for failure."

Now, she feels amazing and is now looking forward to her future - having recently met a new guy and taken up windsurfing.

Lindsay said: "2018 was all about losing weight, so 2019 for me was all about focusing on maintaining my weight, making new habits and living life in balance.

"If Id stayed at the weight I was my sleep apnoea would have been a problem for life and thats one of the main reasons Im so determined to stay fit and healthy.

"I am literally half the woman, living twice the life and youll now find me living without my weight holding me back.

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Weight loss: I lost 14st and cured my loud snoring after REFUSING to have gastric band op - The Sun

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