3st weight loss ‘has made me feel great’
HULL WOMAN’S AMAZING TRANSFORMATION
A HULL woman has lost three stone after wanting to buy clothes from “normal shops”.
Karan Dickinson, 50, of east Hull, has shed the pounds through following a Slimming World plan along with exercise. She has gone from weighing 16.7 stone to a much healthier 13.7 stone, and could not be prouder.
“I’ve always been on the chunky side and wanted to shop in normal clothes shops and to look slimmer,” said Karan.
“I joined Slimming World to lose weight as it seemed easier than the points system in Weight Watchers and I had a Slimming World group near me.
“I lost the three stone, but I’m on my way to losing more. The weight loss has made me feel great, you get people noticing and commenting and that gives you a great boost.
“I can shop in normal clothes shops and feel great.”
With the coronavirus pandemic meaning that gyms were closed in lockdowns and Slimming World classes transferring online, Karan admits it was initially hard to adjust.
“It had been a good journey, then lockdown happened,” she said.
“I thought to myself: how will I lose weight now? How will I get weighed? I can’t go to my class? Surely, I’m bound to put on weight?
“Well with Slimming World, we still have group sessions, but these are now on Zoom. If the world could adapt to Zoom, then so could I.
“I went to the gym three or four times a week, it was then closed, and I thought now what do I do? It was the groups support that helped me to do the Couch to 5K programme over the summer and I don’t run.”
Karan exercises together with Slimming World group online says all members encourage another.
“To help me keep remembering and carrying on, I’ve stuck a photo of myself on my fridge of when I first started Slimming World. I find it helps to boost my motivation,” she said.
“I have a folder of my weight loss certificates along with Miss Slinky and the greatest loser achievements in it which I won thought votes in the group.
“It shows me how far I’ve actually come on. Just because the world has changed and we are in lockdown, my finishing line is still there.” her and one
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Based on the book Chasing The Scream by journalist Johann Hari, Suzan-lori Parks’ script employs a cumbersome framing device to ricochet through 12 years of emotional upheaval, which culminated in Holiday’s arrest for drug possession as she lay dying in the Metropolitan Hospital in New York.
In 1957, Holiday (Day) chats with columnist Reginald Lord Devine (Leslie Jordan). They discuss her song Strange Fruit, which rages against the lynch- ing of black Americans and is described by one government agent as “a musical starting gun for this so-called civil rights movement”.
She also recounts her longrunning feud with Harry J Anslinger (Garrett Hedlund), head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics.
The singer harks back 10 years to her performances at New York nightclub Cafe Society – motto: “The wrong place for the right people” – where she is introduced to admirer Jimmy Fletcher (Trevante Rhodes).
The handsome former GI has been secretly hired by Anslinger to infiltrate her inner circle and Jimmy plays a pivotal role in Billie’s one-year prison sentence for heroin possession.
The FBI mole regrets his actions and becomes her protector alongside confidantes Roslyn (Da’vine Joy Randolph) and Miss Freddy (Miss Lawrence).
Alas, Billie cannot escape the vice-like grip of drug addiction and she rebuffs Jimmy to spare him a one-way ticket down the road to hell: “Gotta find you a nice girl, and that ain’t me.”
Colour bleeds into monochrome and back again as Daniels uses archive footage from the era, which packs a heftier emotional punch than