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A takeaway a day THEN I LOST 45KGS!

Tamara McDonald, 36, Camden, NSW

You’re just big boned,’ my family chorused. ‘You’re like your dad.’

I’d carried extra weight since I was a little kid, and my family assured me that it was my genetics.

But at school, it was a completely different story and I was bullied relentlessly.

As I grew up, graduated from high school and went on to get my nursing degree, I continued to pile on the weight.

Working crazy 12-hour shifts at all times across the day and

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