A mum-of-two has dropped a massive 9st after giving up alcohol for good. Depression had caused her to binge drink 'often' and then chow down on fast food, causing her weight to balloon.
Kassidy Riekens, 28, from Wyoming, USA, began putting on weight in 2010. It would be five years before she had her first child, falling pregnant in 2014.
Kassidy didn’t really think about what she was putting into her body – and so she drank alcohol, smoked cigarettes and ate junk food to cope with her depression.
The mother-of-two drank large volumes of alcohol every night to “mask her feelings”. The situation became so bad that she acted out and relied on her husband to take care of her when she was drunk.