Woman's Day Magazine NZ

Kiwi mum’s transformation ‘LOSING 40kg CHANGED MY LIFE!’

Jane Yeoman calls her epiphany that “a-ha moment”. But the catalyst for her two-year weight-loss mission didn’t come when her doctor warned she was pre-diabetic – instead, it was not having clothes that fit in a new job.

“When I started at St John, even the biggest uniform was tight,” the Hamilton mum-of-two tells Woman’s Day. “It was really difficult and uncomfortable getting up and down to teach CPR on the ground.

“That really scared me. I’d been overweight

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