A Daily Mail article presents a personal account of weight loss by a woman who says she was 54 and around seven-and-a-half stone at 5ft 2, describing her body as a “size 18” during menopause. The piece attributes earlier difficulty maintaining weight to what the author describes as emotional eating, including using food for comfort. The author says she found losing the first stone the hardest part and outlines a method she used to shed weight and then keep it off, emphasizing that she does so without calorie counting. The article focuses on the individual’s experience rather than reporting new research or clinical findings, and it does not provide independent verification of specific results. Both available excerpts match closely, reiterating the author’s age, height, weight history, menopausal context, and the claim that calorie counting is not used as part of her approach.