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NEW YEAR NEW ME! I lost 72 kilos IN 11 MONTHS!

Tearing open the wrapper, my mouth watered with anticipation.

I was craving something sweet, so I’d grabbed a bar of choccy, and as the first piece melted on my tongue, I felt myself relax.

But one bar was never enough.

Munching through a second, then a third, it was only afterwards I seemed to snap back to reality and realise how much I’d eaten.

As a child, I’d always been bigger than my friends.

At the dinner table, it

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