Woman loses 171 pounds after seeing a picture of herself at a party

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A woman in Scotland made a major life transformation after she saw a picture of herself at a party.

After her father died suddenly from cancer in 2010, Laura Neil, from Falkirk, Scotland, turned to junk food for comfort and hardly ever cooked for herself, according to SWNS. She reportedly became something of a recluse and continued to gain weight, reaching 316 pounds at her heaviest.

“I’d always been quite heavy as a child, but I lost my dad to cancer at 21,” Neil, 32, told SWNS.

“I was depressed from losing my dad,” she added. “It was very sudden, we were told he had longer left than he lived for. I was just eating a lot of junk food and takeaways, I didn’t often eat a normal meal that I had cooked myself.”

Now, Neil weighs 145 pounds.

She also dropped eight dress sizes, from a size 26 to a size 10.

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