article_snippet: The 42-year-old dropped from 24 stone (left) to just four in as many years.
article_snippet: The 42-year-old was in and out of hospital for three after having the operation.
article_snippet: After dropping two stone naturally, Mrs Jones underwent the procedure in hospital in 2010.
article_snippet: Within three months Mrs Jones weight had dropped to 18 stone. '
article_snippet: In March 2011, a year after the operation, Mrs Jones was rushed to hospital weighing just four stone - an astonishing 20 stone less than the previous year.
article_snippet: Doctors presented this operation to mum as the answer to all she problems.
highlights_snippet: The mother of two resorted to having surgery after ballooning to 26 stone .
  
highlights_snippet: A year after the surgery, she weight had plummeted to just four stone .
  