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Twelve months of activities helped Liz lose 10 stone
LIZ Hall is half the woman she used to be after becoming a Calendar Girl with a difference.
Because Liz – who once tipped the scales at nearly 22st – decided to blitz the flab in 2019 with a year of calorieburning monthly fitness challenges.
And from a 10k run to the New York Marathon and white-water rafting to Moonwalk Scotland, she shed 10 stone.
“Now people I know don’t recognise me in the street,” says the 39-year-old recruitment boss, who has shrunk from a size 26 to a 10.
“But I don’t just look different – I have boundless energy now too.”
It was her constant exhaustion and a string of ailments caused by her weight that first spurred Liz into action in summer 2018.
“I was so tired all the time. I had swollen legs and excruciating back pain. I could barely walk,” says Liz.
“I even managed to sleep through a friend’s 40th party.”
She was so shocked that she plucked up courage to step on to the scales for the first time in years – and tipped them at 21st 10lb. And, after seeing a boozy snap on Facebook, something snapped.
Two weeks later, Liz, of Skipton, North Yorks, joined a slimming club.
She said: “Having a weigh-in each week made me accountable.”
In October 2018, she went sober. “I’d been opening a bottle of wine a night,” says Liz.
“Next morning I’d have a bacon butty then a sausage roll and cake for lunch.
“Dinner was a takeaway, with another bottle. Going sober for a month was a game-changer. I also began making healthier food choices.” At New Year 2019, after losing around five stone, she added exercise to get more off, with at least one sporting event a month.
In January she ran 10k. Next month she tackled Salford’s Total Ninja obstacle course and went white-water rafting at
I don’t just look a lot different, I now have boundless energy too LIZ HALL ON EXERCISE TRANSFORMATION
Middlesbrough’s Olympic venue. In March Liz ran a 10k cross country in Bradford. April saw her tackle 10k Gung Ho obstacle courses at Leeds and a charity run at Wetherby racecourse, raising £900 for Sue Ryder.
May featured a 26-mile walk from Holy Island to Bamburgh in Northumberland and a 10k in Salford. Liz climbed Mount Snowdon in June, did zip wiring and went North Sea coasteering –