I lost 16 stone & gained 7lb bundle of joy

AT 26 stone, desperate Lisa Rea tried for years to have a baby - and only conceived after months of fertility treatment.

Then when she had a gastric band fitted to lose weight, doctors warned she would NEVER have a brother or sister for little daughter Katie.

They said the tiny amounts of food Lisa had to eat would not be enough to nourish a baby in the womb.

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But after losing a whopping 16 stone, she found herself pregnant with NO treat- ment - and is now a beaming mum to a bouncing boy.

"I really thought I would never see this day, it is unbelievable," Lisa said. "The gastric bypass was the best fertility treatment I could have hoped for - I got pregnant within weeks." Tax clerk Lisa, 37, piled on the weight after she was diagnosed at the age of 18 polycystic ovaries, a condition that affects fertility.

She said: "I'd eat pie and peas with chips and gravy, or I'd get a takeout."

After getting married, she eventually had Katie in December 2003. Lisa was so overweight the little girl would shelter from the rain under her mum's 44JJ bust.

Then four years ago tax clerk Lisa, of Worsley, near Manchester had the drastic slimming op after getting STUCK in a turnstile at Man Utd's ground.

The band round her stomach meant she could only eat and drink minute amounts, and she lost two-thirds of her bulk. Eight months after surgery she split from her husband and later found love with dispensing assistant Neil Lamario. Then in February this year she fell pregnant.

Lisa said: "The doctors were really worried about the health of the baby. I can only manage a bit of toast in the morning, at lunch time it takes me an hour to munch through a sandwich and in the evenings I have a small portion of mash.

"I was taken to hospital a few times with dehydration. I can only drink so much water but I was really careful to eat as healthily as possible."

Little George was born on November 11, weighing 7lb.

Proud dad Neil said: "He has a very healthy appetite, just like me."

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