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WHEN these Slimming World members decided they wanted to get in shape, little did they know it would give them the confidence and energy to do their jobs under pressure when Covid sent us into lockdown. MICHELLE RAWLINS hears their inspiring stories...
BEKI Ware, 30, is an emergenc technician, and is also training to nurse. She lives with her partne Redruth, Cornwall.
“All day I’d been dashing patient to another, taking blood checking temperatures, supporting nurses. I’d just been promoted from a healthcare support worker to an emergency medical technician at a busy hospital and on top of that I’d been accepted on to a nursing course.
“Three years earlier I was working as an NVQ health and social care assessor. Being on the road a lot, I never found time for lunch, and by evening I was filling up on pizza or ready-m Having fibromyalgia, which caus over your body, and the effect of cation I took, meant I got tired qu my weight wasn’t helping. I felt m
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PHIL Peck, 55, is a warehousing and transport general manager. He lives in Levington, Suffolk, with his wife Jo.
“No sooner had I closed my eyes than I was fast asleep. The only thing was – I was at work.
“As a manager for a busy transport and warehouse company, my lunchtime power nap was the only way I could get through my working day without falling asleep on the job.
“At nearly 26st, just getting around wore me out, and I used snacks to keep me going – sausage rolls, chocolate, and four takeaway burgers followed by two apple pies and a milkshake. Then I’d go home to toad-in-the-hole and chocolate or sponge pudding with custard.
“Then in 2017, after a holiday to Las Vegas, I had a heart attack and needed surgery to insert three stents.
“Afterwards I became very low and I turned to food for comfort. When my doctor took my blood pressure and found it was dangerously high, he warned if I wanted to live a long
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