
Beatrice started on Cambridge in April…1984! She gave up pretty quickly after finding the tastes not to her liking. It was to be 23 years later before she was to try it again and as she had changed, so to of course, had the Diet.
In the meantime Beatrice had some ups and downs, and tried many a diet – some even with limited success. At the age of 33 she married her first and only love and content with this, let her weight go completely.
However things began to unravel about three years ago. She started to get pain in her feet and initially thought it was her shoes – not the excess weight she’d put on. The pain worsened and she could hardly stand up some days. She got frightened, went to the doctor, thinking she was going to lose her leg. Luckily, they said she didn’t need that but unluckily they diagnosed Planter Fasciitis and this was down to her being morbidly obese.
The pain was intense, Beatrice said it was like someone driving a large nail into the heel of you foot. She was signed off work for months and this was bad – because all she did was watch TV and eat. For the first time in her life she felt ugly, inside and out.
Her relationship with her husband broke down to such an extent that he was very close to walking out on her – something she has said since would have finished off completely. During this time she went to a parade in the town and stood in front to hold a little girl so that she could see. She was blocking a family’s view and the man said loudly: “Hey, sit down or SLIM – we can’t see past you.” That was the moment that she hit rock bottom.
And so Beatrice found herself surfing the internet looking for a way out of her problems – and she came across the Cambridge Weight Plan. She couldn’t believe that she had found it again after all these years and phoned her local Consultant immediately. On the first meeting with her Consultant she uttered the now famous words: “I don’t think I can do this diet because I love my food too much.”
On day three she had a huge wobble and phoned her Consultant to say she was coming off the Diet altogether but, after the intervention one of her the Consultants’s customers, managed to keep going.
After that episode she put her diet blinkers on and went for it. As the weight came off and the pain in her feet began to lessen.
Beatrice has lost gone down from size 32-34 to a size 10-12 (10 on a good day) and recently went on holiday to Mallorca where, for the first time ever, she wore a bikini!
When asked to sum up in one word her experience on Cambridge – she has no doubts…Liberation.
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