6st woman eats 5000 calorie diet - just to stay alive

A desperate land lady has told how an operation to help her lose weight resulted in DOUBLING her daily calorie intake -- to stay alive. Julie Dunbar, 51, decided to undergo gastric surgery in an attempt to lose weight after tipping the scales at a hefty 20st 7lbs and suffering from a number of illnesses. But despite the successful operation she soon lost more weight than doctors expected and became dangerously malnourished - dropping a worrying 14 and a half stone in just 12 months. She needed three operations and was even fed through a line in her nose to try and get nutrition into her fragile, dying, body.