I’m 17st LIGHTER!
Walking along the streets, I was exhilarated by how fit and healthy I felt. With each step I took, I wanted to take another, then another. I liked to joke that I was a real-life Forrest Gump, power-walking as if I’d never stop. It was hard to believe that, just over two years before, I couldn’t walk to the end of my pavement without every part of my body aching.
The moment everything changed was in the summer of 2018, after I’d been out shopping with my sister Jackie. As I started up the stairs to my first-floor flat, I was paralysed by a crippling pain in my chest. Bright red from the exertion and
