Losing Weight At Home

Mary Turner Thomson's world fell apart when she found out her husband and the man she thought she would spend the rest of her life with was a bigamist and a fraud. William Allen Jordan seemed like the perfect devoted husband - but he was secretly married to three other women and had 13 children Mary knew nothing about.Devastated when she discovered his harrowing secret, Mary turned to comfort eating to help her get through the difficult months ahead and her weight spiralled out of control. Jordan's offences, which included bigamy, fraud and gun crimes, were exposed in 2006, when it was also revealed he was a convicted sex offender.  She believed his lies, especially when he seemed to show her the proof, and was delighted when he proposed just three weeks after they met online in 2000. The trauma of his betrayal led Mary, from Edinburgh, to gain 70 pounds and at her heaviest she weighed 280 pounds. But then in October 2019 she decided to transform her life and disco...