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. She began gorging on Greggs sausage rolls, biscuits, vanilla lattes, chicken pesto pasta, and takeaways for nearly a decade. “I was always brushing my weight under the carpet,” Carla said. “Truth be told I was so unhappy with how I looked. I would be in tears with how I let myself get.” “So much so that I used to wash my hair twice a day to make sure it looked nice because that was the only thing I could instantly fix,” she added. In March …