A mum addicted to fast food decided to lose weight after she became too fat to fit in her friend's kitchen. Melanie Malone used to gorge on three McDonald's a day with cruel classmates calling her Michelin Man and Bruce Bogtrotter.
Melanie, now 31, says the bullying triggered a vicious cycle of binge eating and at her heaviest weighed 23 stone and wore size 28 clothes. In a year she would gobble down around £5,400 worth of takeaways.
She says she struggled to walk, couldn't fit in the bath and used to break seats when she sat on them.
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When her best friend passed away from a heart condition in September 2021, the mum-of-one was was spurred into leading a healthier lifestyle before jetting off to Turkey for a gastric sleeve in April.
Melanie, who works as a reiki practitioner now weighs just over nine stone and has dropped a staggering nine dress sizes and now confidently dons slinky size 10 dresses and feels 'amazing', both mentally and physically. The singer is now keen to share her story in a bid to encourage others struggling with their weight and to break the stigma around weight loss surgery as being 'the easy way out'.
Melanie, from Tameside, Greater Manchester, said: "I was a massive binge eater. Fizzy drinks were my crutch. I would drink so many cans of diet coke a day it was ridiculous. At the most, I'd have six cans a day.
"Crisps were my kryptonite. I'd sit and eat 10 bags of Space Raiders and hide all the empty packets in the big packet so it didn't look like I'd eaten them all. My friend called me 'the McCoy's lady' because I'd eat so many crisps at my desk. I'd go through packet after packet and could eat four in less than an hour.
"I had takeaways pretty much every night for around four years. I never cooked, there was only one thing that I'd cook and it was Mexican and it was full of calories. If it wasn't a takeaway I'd have McDonald's. I'd eat McDonald's three times a day, so I'd have it in the morning, dinner and for my tea."
Melanie said when her binge eating was at its worst, she'd scoff four breakfast rolls stuffed with bacon, sausage and hash browns before 10:15am. She'd also gulp down six cans of diet coke and spend at least £10-15 on takeaways a day.
She said: "I'd say from around the age of 12 I went through a lot of bullying because I started to put on a little bit of weight and that just made the situation worse and I'd comfort eat.
"I remember being 15 and being 15 stone, I was really heavy at such a young age, it was as if my age matched my weight. In school I'd get called all sorts of names. I remember there was one boy who used to sing this song to me 'ba ba ba ba ba, Mc Melanie's'.
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"I also got called the Michelin Man. It was around the time that the Michelin tyre man was out. I just used to get called fat all the time - fatso, fatty. They always used to compare me to Dawn French and anyone big, like Miss Trunchbull or Bruce Bogtrotter.
"It was just a constant reminder from kids every day that I was big. I've forgiven and removed any resentment from anything towards all this, we were just kids. The name-calling was really difficult, which then just made me just go into myself and not really want to share who I was. It just completely changed who I was and became.
"I just didn't like myself. I didn't like who I was so I put on this persona of a class clown. It made me feel very sad. I was comfort eating throughout my life. Food was my comfort, it helped me through break-ups and when I needed it and obviously after a while it would become very unhealthy and unhelpful.
"Chairs always used to break all the time. I couldn't fit in any plastic or patio chairs, they'd always snap. These are physical effects but I think for myself it was more a mental effect it had on me, it was very overwhelming.
"I couldn't bend down in the shower and was too fat to fit in the bath. I also couldn't fit in hot tubs - anything that involved me taking my clothes off and exposing myself was just tormenting."
As well as transforming her relationship with food, the singleton now leads an active lifestyle involving walking and swimming, and aspires to climb to Everest Base Camp by the time she's 40. Melanie said: "At first I was a little bit scared of sharing because there's quite a bit of stigma attached with people having gastric sleeves and how some have an opinion of it being an 'easy way out'.
"Believe me, it isn't. It's the hardest thing I've ever had to do in my life. I'd say to others that getting the surgery isn't shameful. I feel like there's a lot of shame put on weight loss surgery."
How Melanie changed her life
TYPICAL DIET BEFORE SURGERY
Breakfast: Four breakfast rolls including a variety of bacon, sausage and hashbrowns.
Lunch: Pie, lasagne or Hunters chicken and chips.
Snack: Family bag of Sensations crisps and another packet of crisps.
Dinner: While cooking her daughter's food a couple of chicken nuggets or chips before a takeaway of a burger and chips, big bottle of coke and nine-inch pizza on the side.
TYPICAL DIET NOW
Breakfast: Small amount of porridge with berries
Lunch: Sandwich of one piece of bread with salad or salad with couscous.
Snack: Shake and fruit
Dinner: A small portion of spaghetti bolognese.
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