'I felt like the doctor took one look at me and I felt like he put me in the old, unfit, overweight people pile,' Lisa explained.
Lisa, who was 43 at the time of the accident, had tried to shift her excess body weight in the past - trying every 'fad' diet and exercise regime that had come on her radar since she was in her early 20s.
'I would dedicate 90 minutes to exercise a day then I would get injured and slow down and the weight would come back on,' she said.
Struggling with her weight for years, Lisa would try various diet and exercise regimes and never have any success.
'I started putting weight on when I was in my teens and I would lose some then it would pile back on plus more,' she said.
