Express Review: Sharon's Weight Loss Success
She said the incident made her feel like a “hypocrite” for being in a career where she was supposed to be promoting a healthy lifestyle.
And with the help of Davina McCall and the UK’s original fresh-food diet plan, Bodychef, Mrs Martin has shed six stone in just over 18 months.
She said: “I was crouching down changing some dressings on a 90-year-old patient’s legs, and I just got stuck down there.”
“I couldn’t get myself up because of my joints, and the patient ended up asking me if I needed some help getting up.
“I thought to myself at that point, this has got to stop. If I don’t do something, I’m going to end up as a patient.”
“I still see the patient who had to help me up off the floor, and she’s really pleased and taken aback with my transformation.”
Mrs Martin, a district nursing sister at Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Partnership Trust, weighed 16 stone 11 lbs in the summer of 2015.
Mrs Martin said she had been dieting on and off for about 30 years, trying out various slimming clubs, but that she had never had the willpower to keep going for very long…’
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