SHEDDED BLISS

Couple’s joy after losing 23 STONE together

A COUPLE so overweight they were virtually housebound have shed nearly 23st between them.

At his heaviest, Glyn Woodward was 30st and so immobile that 12st 12lb wife Gill became his full-time carer.

He had rejected the offer of gastric surgery – but finally realised the need to slim when her health buckled under the strain.

Glyn joined her Slimming World group in Stowmarket, Suffolk, and is now just 11st 12lb after four years.

Gill, 5ft 4in tall, was a size 18 but is now 8st 4lb and size 8. Their great transformation has led to them being named as Slimming World’s Couple of the Year.

Glyn, 66, said: “I was classed as three times morbidly obese and had chronic sleep apnoea and depression. Just existing at that size is totally exhausting. I depended on Gill entirely.”

Gill, 63, said: “Glyn had become unable to walk unaided and was in a wheelchair.

“Getting about was so hard we were effectively prisoners in our own home. I was struggling to care for him because of my own rising weight.

“On a rare shopping trip to town, I parked the car on a hill – but on return realised I did not have the strength to push him uphill in his wheelchair.

“The exertion was so much I had an asthma attack and passers-by aided us.

“Glyn was mortified. It brought home to him that our weight struggles had hit our quality of life.”

Glyn said: “Gill and her consultant Nicole saved my life.”

BREAKFAST: 4 or 5 slices of toast, spread with butter and jam.LUNCH: Burger, chips and fizzy drink from a fast-food restaurant.DINNER: Deep fried meals or rich meals out in restaurants like steak and deepfried chips. BREAKFAST: Toast, poached eggs, spinach, mushrooms. MID-MORNING: Crudités, pastrami, rolled gherkins, baby tomatoes.LUNCH: Veg soup with prawn salad. DINNER: Homemade chicken balti, cauliflower, rice, mixed vegetables. BIG CHANGE Gill and Glyn are Slimming World Couple of the Year