Grandma loses huge 12 stone in just months with easy diet changes - 'nothing drastic!'

Published date12 August 2022
Publication titleExpress, The/The Express on Sunday: Web Edition Articles (London, England)
Before her weight loss, Alison suffered from diverticulitis, a debilitating condition that caused her to go to the toilet up to 40 times a day and resulted in a life-threatening flare up, causing her to be hospitalised

This was a huge wake-up call for the 63-year-old who decided to lose weight to be healthier and happier.

Looking back at her decision, Alison told Express.co.uk: "I realised that I was wasting my life.

"I was spending most of it inside a hospital, and when I would leave the hospital, all I could think was ‘this is it - this is how my life is going to look from now on’.

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"Then my grandson was born, and my daughter-in-law asked if I was able to look after him during the day when she went back to work, and I knew I needed to change.

"I wanted to be involved in his life - I wanted to take him to the park, to take him swimming, to sit inside his little pop-up tent in the garden, but I knew I couldn’t.

"I literally couldn’t even cut my own toenails, never mind keep him entertained all day.

"I wanted to be around to see him grow up, and I knew that I wouldn’t be if I carried on the way I was going."

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Alison's physical health was affected by her weight, but so was her mental health and wellbeing.

She explained: "My entire life was a lie - whenever someone would ask me to go and do something, I would find an excuse as to why I couldn't go.

"We once went on a holiday abroad, my husband and I, and I was having serious trouble fastening my seatbelt. I didn't want to ask for an extender, so I managed to buckle it up and had to sit so still on the journey home.

"When it came to booking next year's holiday, I told my husband that I had a phobia of flying after seeing a video of an air-disaster, and was now too scared to fly.

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"The truth is that I really did want to fly, but I was too embarrassed to go through the seatbelt ordeal all over again."

Alison added that she "lived with a fear of...

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