article_snippet: Doctors told Janine that - due to A  mother size - A  mother qualified for a gastric band, but the determined housewife decided to take matters into the determined housewife own hands to shift the excess pounds.
article_snippet: Doctors told Janine that due to Janine size, Janine qualified for a gastric band but Janine joined a slimming club and lost the weight Janine naturally .
article_snippet: I was actually wider than a buffalo.
article_snippet: Janine tried to avoid walking long distances or climbing stairs when Janine was at Janine heaviest .
article_snippet: Janine added: 'I've always been quite big.
article_snippet: I would have tried to avoid walking long distances or climbing stairs when I weighed her heaviest.
highlights_snippet: 7lb and could barely fit into size