40 year-old Sharon holds down a demanding job and says the only reason she's fat is because she's "greedy and lazy". But Sharon has been consuming huge quantities of food to control her emotions and suppress anxiety for most of her adult life.
Name: Sharon
Weight before show: 29st 9lbs
Metabolic age: 55
Actual age: 40
Sharon's civil partner Charlotte gets frustrated with Sharon, and her reluctance to go out in public leads to arguments. Sharon can front it out in the work place with people she knows but hates going to anywhere she doesn't know or where she might encounter new people.
At nearly 30 stones Sharon worries about chairs and access, as well as what people will say about her, and these anxieties make her turn to food for comfort. To compound her problems, Sharon spends long hours in her car travelling between care homes and grazes all day on pasties, cakes, crisps and sweets from service stations.
Sharon avoided full-length mirrors or looking at herself too closely and was shocked to discover how fat she'd become. What spurred her to change was the fear that her weight would put her in an early grave.
