Posted 81 days ago
THEN: 13st
I started to put on weight when I hit my 50s. I’d gone back to university and, what with eating badly plus the student bar, I ballooned.
Then, in the winter of 2009, I got a bad cough, and it never cleared. I’d wanted to give up smoking for years, but I knew I’d put on more weight. I felt…
Posted 95 days ago
I was a ‘big girl’, and I knew I was when I couldn’t fit into the chairs at my local cafe! My health was bad, too – I’d been diagnosed with MS as a teenager, and I also had asthma. When I was ill, it took more than two people to lift me! No wonder – I was a size-24,…
Posted 248 days ago
Losing It!
Jean Pownall, 59, Liverpool
Was… 15st 7lb Now…10st 13lb
I’d yo-yo dieted for 20 years, but when I had the menopause I was suddenly 54, 15½st and a size-20!
I tried to lose weight alone, but that didn’t work, so my daughter suggested we try Slimming World.
Walking into that first group, I was so nervous, but everyone made me feel welcome!
I began to…
Posted 440 days ago
Losing It!
Jackie Balentine, 49, New Mills, Derbyshire
Was: 22st 9lb…Now: 11st 7lb
I was huge, so I don’t know what Harold saw in me… but he said he loved me! I didn’t love myself, though.
So, in September 2004, I joined Slimming World – mainly because I’d heard it had a plan for diabetics. It was tailored to suit my need for carbs (because
I…
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