Obese mother, 43, drops from 17st to 11st after nearly dying aged 37

[Northerner]

Despite repeated attempts at dieting, she ballooned from 12st to 17st in just five years.
However, reality hit home when she had a heart attack aged just 37.
In September 2012, Mrs Pritchard had a gastric bypass on the NHS.

Now six stone lighter, she credits the heart attack for her size 12 figure.
She said: ?Lying in bed one night, I suddenly felt really strange. I went from boiling hot to freezing cold and very clammy.
?When I tried to move I was stopped by a deadening pain in my chest, and my arms felt like lead.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...-43-drops-17st-11st-nearly-dying-aged-37.html

As a type 1 diabetic, Mrs Pritchard relies on daily insulin injections which she says have caused her to crave piles of greasy pastries and crisps

Of course, we all do that don't we? 🙄 I stopped eating crisps less than 6 months after diagnosis, couldn't be bothered to inject for them, and I have pastry once in a blue moon. Presumably, she had gestational diabetes and then became insulin-dependent after her second child, but it's not clear.

the more insulin I took, the hungrier I was

Sounds like she didn't receive good education about carb counting