By Lizzie Edmonds PUBLISHED: 03:30 EST, 8 October 2013 | UPDATED: 08:25 EST, 8 October 2013 This is the staggering photo diary of a mother who shed 12 stone in as many months - to make sure she would live to look after her disabled son. Jane Morgan, 38, tipped the scales at 28 stone when she was at her largest. Bingeing on takeaways and whole packets of biscuits, she piled on the pounds in her twenties and ballooned when her two sons Connor, ten, and Callum, eight, were born. Start: Mother-of-two Jane Morgan, 38, weighed 28 stone at her largest, pictured, and was a size 32
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Jane Morgan, 38, from Basildon, Essex, weighed 28 stone at her heaviest
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Mother-of-two would binge on daily takeaways and packets of biscuits
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Was spurred into slimming down after doctors said she wouldn't live to see her disabled son Callum, eight, become a teenager
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Had gastric bypass operation in September 2012 and lost 12 stone
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'I'm grateful I can live to see them grow up now,' former trainee nurse says
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