Best Way to Lose weight After 30 ( How Mise lost 140 pounds )
When Misé Coakley, 34, was struck down with meningitis, measles and glandular fever, the cocktail of conditions left her housebound. She was barely moving and ate just crisps, chocolate and diet shakes during her rare waking hours. Recalling how she looked "like a monstrosity" in family photos, Misé, who has now slimmed down to a 140 pounds, said: “I just woke up fat. I hadn’t been scoffing thousands of calories a day. I’d just been unconscious for so much of the time - unable to hardly move without falling asleep with exhaustion and eating unhealthy snacks when I could, that the weight had piled on as I slept.” Falling ill in November 2010, Misé lay in bed for the best part of 21 months, until February 2013. It was not until three years later, when her legs painfully chafed at a family wedding in America that, weighing 280 pounds and squeezing into a size 24, she finally embarked on a serious weight loss regime. Horrified when she saw her photos, by then morb...