Lying on my sunbed next to the pool as the sun beamed down, I couldn’t help but notice the lady next to me. She was larger than me with swollen ankles, and her size meant that she was struggling to get off her sun lounger to walk over to the hotel buffet.
Seeing the impact her weight was having on her, I suddenly felt really guilty. ‘If I don’t do something soon, that’s my future,’ I realised. It was September 2022 and I was on holiday in Antalya, Turkey, with my partner Gareth, then 41. As I compared myself to the woman beside me, I was acutely aware of how big
