An Antrim woman has spoken about her weight loss with a Slimming World group, prompted by a soul-crushing admission from her surgeon after being landed in hospital following a cancer scare.
An Antrim woman has spoken about her weight loss with a Slimming World group, prompted by a soul-crushing admission from her surgeon after being landed in hospital following a cancer scare . Judith Gibson, 45, from Ballymena had been overweight since the age of 11 when she fell into a depression after her father was killed in a car crash, reports Belfast Live.
She was "so miserable" that she resorted to eating crisps, chocolate and sweets after dinner to help ease her pain, and this is where she gradually started to become obese. She said: "I then gained weight and as I started gaining weight, I started being bullied at school, being taunted for being 'fat' but also for having no daddy." Such was the extent of her weight gain, Judith says she had to find alternative clothes shops to her peers because she simply could not fit the sizes available. "I remember in particular going in to get my school uniform for going back to school and they simply couldn't get one to fit me
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