Eje is 32 and has lost over a stone and a half with the Cook Yourself Thin Online Weight Loss Club. Here, in her own words, she tells how she did it and how the weight loss has affected her life.
From the time I hit puberty, I have always struggled with my weight. I have never been what would be called thin and that's fine with me but I hated being fat.
Funnily enough, I never had a problem with self-esteem due to my weight. I have never been short of friends/boyfriends or a social life.
When I was with my first husband, I felt under pressure to lose weight so I joined a gym, found that I actually enjoyed it and lost a lot of weight. I don't know what I weighed then but I was a size 14/16 and it did give more confidence and made my self- esteem grow.
Ejemhen before Cook Yourself Thin
While I was going through my divorce four years ago, I lost even more weight but deep down I knew it wouldn't last because I was hardly eating due to the trauma I was going through.
Anyway, I met my current husband (and love of my life) very soon afterwards. I got happy again and started eating, and ever so slowly the weight crept up.
We both love food and cooking so we spent a lot of time experimenting with different recipes. End result - I put on lots of weight and he, bless him, is such a slim build that he could eat for England and put on nothing!
We got married in March this year and I thought I would lose weight for the wedding - by this stage I was about a size 16 really, even though I kidded myself I was still a 14!
Of course, I just never did anything about it because I was basically lazy and I just couldn't think of which weight-loss plan to follow. I needed something that would allow me to eat what I wanted and would not force me to eat salads all the time - yuck!
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