It got to the stage where the 28-year-old was unable to leave the house and was struggling to breathe, with her boyfriend having to wake her to check she was breathing in the night.
Ana, from York, said: "My weight affected everything in my life. I couldn't do the housework; I couldn't even walk to the corner shop to buy a loaf of bread.
"I even got turned down for a job because of my size - the manager telling me that they couldn't have anyone working in their kitchen as big as me.
"Although I knew that I needed to do something about my weight for some time, the turning point was definitely a fear for my health. I was so depressed and exhausted, I got to the point where I couldn't even leave the house.
At 32 stone, I struggled to sleep, so much so that my boyfriend would have to wake up in the middle of the night just to check that I was still alive.
"It was a really scary time for everyone."
She began to struggle with her weight after leaving her home country of Romania and she said working 12 hour night shifts left her very stressed and drove her to eat.
She said she "simply ate the wrong things at the wrong time", eating as she worked at night time and having pizza at 5am in the morning.
She lost the weight on the LighterLife Total Programme
It saw her drop 18 stone in 12 months and then last year she lost a final stone through healthy eating. Ana said her father wept when he saw her on her return to Romania.
"The time before last that I saw my father I promised him that the next time he would see me that I would be a completely different person and I didn't let him down,"she said.
"When I saw him last year after I had lost the weight - he just started crying. I was still his daughter, but a million times happier and healthier.
"Before I lost the weight I felt trapped in my own body - I couldn't be myself as I couldn't move or do anything I wanted to do. But now I feel free. I go jogging every day which I absolutely love, I can't believe that I struggled to even walk around my house before. I go bike riding and I absolutely love to dance."
Few people have this much weight to lose, so if Ana can lose 19 stones you can lose the stones that are holding you back as well!
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