Grandma who shed 25 stone admits she REGRETS losing the weight as she reveals the excess skin left behind
Depsite the impressive weight loss, Janae feels she's a "shameful mess of a body"
A WOMAN who shed 25 stone in two years has been left wishing she never lost weight.
Janae, 41, made the decision to change her life when she was hospitalised after her weight reached a dangerous 35 stone.
The grandmother, from Texas, began piling on the pounds after the birth of her first child.
As she raised her son as a single parent, she often grabbed fast food on the go as a time-saving measure.
After meeting her husband, Janae had two more children.
Heartbreakingly, when he passed away in a car crash, Janae’s battle with her weight spiralled out of control.
She said: “When he was gone, my world turned upside down.
“I turned to food because I didn’t know how to cope.
“And within a year, I picked up 200 lbs”
In just 12 months, Janae tipped the scales at over 35 stone.
It wasn’t until she had a major health scare that she knew she had to turn her life around.
Janae’s size began to restrict her breathing, and she was put on a ventilator to keep her alive.
She said: “I was on oxygen, the machine had to breathe for me
“And that’s when I knew I needed to change my life”.
Determined to turn her life around, Janae consulted a weight loss doctor before cutting down her portions and regularly working out at the gym.
Impressively, she lost 14 stone on her own, before gastric bypass surgery helped her lose an additional ten stone.
Even though Janae was proud of her weight loss, she now faces more body confidence issues.
The grandmother has been left with so much excess skin that she is unable to run and is forced to wear body compression clothing.
She revealed: “I was so proud.
“But to look in the mirror, it hurts to see what’s left.
“It makes me feel so much regret for even losing the weight because I don’t look human”
“I’ve let myself get so big that I’m now left with this shameful mess of a body”.
Janae was given the chance to go under the knife for free, when a doctor granted her cosmetic surgery on TLC’s show My Extreme Excess Skin.
Celebs including Lisa Riley and Big Brother star Josie Gibson also had operations to lose their excess skin.
But will Janae’s dramatic body transformation help to restore her confidence?
Tune into TLC to watch My Extreme Excess Skin on Thursday at 10pm to find out.