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‘FITTER NOW THAN I WAS IN MY 20S’

‘I HOPE I’M A ROLE MODEL’

Before: 13st 12lb

After: 10st 10lb

Geraldine Joaquim, 50, is a hypnotherapist. She lives in Petworth with her husband and two children and is the founder of Quest Hypnotherapy Ltd.

There’s nothing I love more than being a mum and having children was one of the best things to ever happen to me. But as I looked in the mirror back in 2011, I saw the toll becoming a parent had taken on my body. I’d never been super-skinny, but was a healthy size 12 before having

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