Completing a marathon on a treadmill would be an amazing achievement for most people, but when I took on the challenge, I defied all the odds. Taking careful steps on an anti-gravity treadmill in March 2022, it was hard to believe that a few short years earlier I couldn’t walk, feed myself or even sit up in bed.
Things hadn’t always been that way. At 15 years old in 1998, I went home from school one day with a sore throat and banging headache. Completely exhausted and in constant pain, I holed up in bed.
But with every day that passed, I seemed to be getting worse.
From weighing 14st, I rapidly began to lose weight. Rather than investigating the