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Thrifty mum I MAKE LUNCH for 41 cents!

As the sun beamed down on us, my friend, Fanny, and I enjoyed a walk around our local park.

‘I need to lose a few kilos,’ I sighed.

Growing up, I was always the chubby girl in school and struggled with my weight.

Then I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes when I was pregnant with my son Finn, in 2012, and again with my second son Jude, five years later.

‘You need to be careful,’ my doctor had warned me, as I also had a family history of type 2

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