Virus fears helped me hit my target
‘All the exercise filled me with endorphins’
Climbing into my car, I gave way to the tears I’d been holding in and cried hysterically. Minutes earlier, I’d stood on the scales for the first time in years at my local Slimming World meeting and was completely blind-sided when I saw 17st 10lb flash up. I knew I was overweight, but I hadn’t expected it to be that bad. At 5ft 4in and size 20, I was clinically obese, putting my life in danger.
Ever since I was a teen, I’d slipped into a vicious circle of yo-yo dieting. I’d lose a couple of stone
