Birthday Pictures Encouraged Carer to Tackle Her Size ; Slimming a Teenager with the Birthday Blues, Melissa Price Blossomed After She Resolved to Shed Some Weight and has Begun to Enjoy Life, Writes Alan Cookman

Sentinel, The; Stoke-on-Trent (UK) › December 14, 2010

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Fat File Name: Melissa Price Age: 18 Address: Waterside Drive, Newstead Occupation: Care assistant Weight before: 17st 13 1/2lbs Weight now: 14st 12lbs Dress size before: 20 Dress size after: 14 Total weight loss: 3st 1 1/2lbs MELISSA Price enjoyed her 18th birthday - but she did not like the souvenir photos from her special day.

They say that the camera does not lie, and this time it told Melissa a story she did not want to hear.

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Birthday Pictures Encouraged Carer to Tackle Her Size ; Slimming a Teenager with the Birthday Blues, Melissa Price Blossomed After She Resolved to Shed Some Weight and has Begun to Enjoy Life, Writes Alan Cookman

"I was disgusted with myself," she says.

"My birthday photographs showed just how big I'd become since leaving school."

The teenage care assistant's social life was already inhibited by her size.

Tipping the scales at nearly 18 stones, Melissa felt she was missing out on too many of the...

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