Woman's Own

FIND ME ON THE DANCE FLOOR

Scrabbling inside my shopping bag, my fingers quickly bypassed the washing powder and the tins of soup.

Instead, I delved deeper to grab the chocolate bar nestling at the bottom.

I’d just left the supermarket but couldn’t hang on until I got home. I needed to eat it right now. I tugged open the wrapper and took my first munch. And soon I found myself reaching for another bar, too.

‘CHOCOLATE WAS MY DOWNFALL’

As a youngster, I hadn’t been big. Although I’d never liked PE, I ran around a lot with my classmates and was always outside.

It was only when I neared my late twenties that

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