Between them Allyson and Angela can sometimes get through 13 and a half litres of alcohol a week, adding up to 10 000 calories or the food equivalent of 80 doughnuts.

As Allyson is a barmaid in her local pub she often eats late at night, usually junk food that’s quick and easy to make, or Angela will have a fry up waiting for her when she gets home. On nights out she sometimes binge-drinks up to 10 pints. Her worse food days are after a big night out when she tries to eat her way out of a hangover. Her favourite hangover cure is oatcakes with greasy fillings, and to make matters worse, she also has a weakness for pork scratchings.

While Allyson is out, mum Angela stays at home and often enjoys 2 or 3 large vodkas. Unlike her daughter who spends the morning after a night out eating, Angela finds that she always has diarrhoea the morning after she has had a drink.

Allyson and Angela are in desperate need of Gillian’s help to break the vicious cycle of binge drinking and eating. After looking through their fridge and finding only the ingredients for numerous fry ups, Gillian confronts them with Allyson’s bad food table of everything she has consumed in a week. As well as numerous fry-ups and beef and onion pies, it features several bags of pork scratchings and 16 and a half pints of lager. Both women are shocked and disgusted at the sight. Allyson cries and tells Gillian that she is ashamed of herself. They are even more disgusted when they are shown the pork scratchings in the equivalent of raw pork rind.

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