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  • Pick Me Up!

    A NEW WOMAN

    Sep 01, 2022 5 minutes

    Tucking into another 12-pack of Krispy Kreme doughnuts, I devoured half of the box within less than an hour, licking the sugar off my fingers after each.

    I stopped at six, but could have easily eaten more.

    Nothing ever seemed to fill me up – my stomach felt like a bottomless pit.

    The diet can start on Monday, I told myself for the hundredth time, knowing it wouldn’t be successful.

    I’d been attempting to lose weight for all of my adult life.

    From the Cambridge Diet to Slimming World – you name it, I tried it.

    Moving out of home on my own for the first time at 18 was when I really started to pile the weight on.

    I was a slim size 10 when I moved out, but working long days as a carer saw me hitting up the drive-thru and

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