'I lost 9 stone with simple diet change after becoming too big to enjoy Christmas'
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A Christmas-loving mum shed a whopping 9st after she became too exhausted to partake in the festive season due to her size. Verity Bambury, 49, knew she needed to change her ways after she struggled to do her Christmas shopping and put up her decorations. The mum-of-one hit rock bottom back in December 2021 and decided to start a new diet.
After consistently following healthy habits, she saw her weight drop from over 21st down to 12st. Reflecting back, Verity, from Liverpool, said: "I love Christmas, but I'd got so big I could barely move. I dreaded doing something as simple as putting the fairy on the tree.".
Verity was plump as a child and wore a maternity skirt for her school prom, as nothing else would fit her. At 16, she joined a diet club. She says: "I didn't like being big, but I just accepted it. I tried diets, but they didn't work. I ate large portions of food, and I had a real weakness for chocolate and chocolate cake.".
She worked as a nursery nurse, and then as a lecturer, but her weight steadily increased. In February 2014, she and her partner, John, had a son, Jarvis. Afterwards, her weight rocketed. By 2020, she weighed 21st 7lbs. "I treated lockdown as a sort of all-inclusive buffet; I just ate and drank all day," Verity explained.
In December 2020, she felt unwell and was taken into hospital with high blood pressure. "I couldn't do my Christmas shopping and I had no energy to put up my tree," she recalled. "I love Christmas, especially with Jarvis, and it's my birthday on December 20 so it was usually a double celebration. But it was just too much for me.".
