Looking in the mirror I found it hard to even recognise myself. With huge amounts of excess skin causing bleeding, boils and cysts on my legs, the weight of it all was literally holding me down.
There must have been at least 3st worth of skin hanging from my body – despite the fact that I’d already undergone a huge transformation.
Diagnosed with stage 5 endometriosis and then adding more health conditions on top of that due to my weight increasing to 24st during Covid, I couldn’t be myself.
Always struggling with my weight from a young age and needing to take prescribed steroids, I just ballooned – it wasn’t the fact that I didn’t want to exercise, I just couldn’t.
I couldn’t even eat anything due to the amount of pain that I was in. Needing an emergency hysterectomy to help with my endo diagnosis, I couldn’t even qualify due to
