A mother was finally able to get a proper hug from her 6-year-old daughter for the first time after she shed a whopping 84 pounds (38 kg).
Carla Ford, 33, ballooned to 224 pounds (101 kg) as she got into a habit of binge eating after becoming a mother while juggling a part-time job and returning to college to get the grades she needed to become a midwife.