Woman battles the bulge — and death of son — to lose 8 stone in 12 months

A Cork woman who lost eight stone in the past year has opened up about her struggle with obesity following the death of her son four years ago.

Carole Bradley, from Mitchelstown, weighed 23 stone this time last year before she won a Facebook competition for gym membership at b2a (Believe to Achieve).

“I won a 56-day programme at the gym and I was terrified going for my first weigh-in. I cried afterwards, I cried all day,” she said.