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24.07.2023 - 05:43 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Having already been diagnosed with a heart condition, Kay Warren knew she had to make major lifestyle changes when she was threatened with diabetes.
The grandma-of-three's weight ballooned to just over 16 stone after piling on the pounds during lockdown and she was classed as obese by medics.
But it was a local weight loss group that helped her lose five stone in just 12 months – leaving her feeling healthier than ever before.
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Kay, from Helsby in Cheshire, signed up to Tameside-based slimming group Beeweighedin July 2022 after being asked to join by a friend.
Combined with calorie counting and regularly walking her beloved lurcher dogs, the mum managed to go from a dress size 22 to a size 12 in just a year.
And she puts the key to her weight loss success down to one thing – her newfound love of salads.
“Now I’ve been doing calorie counting, you can have what you like but not necessarily as much as you’d like,” former school cook Kay told the Manchester Evening News.
“It’s been a case of playing around with salads. So many people think salads are just lettuce, tomatoes and cucumber.
“But I’ve thrown everything at a salad – including sprouts. I’m sort of like a salad whisperer.
“It’s just proven that you don’t have to have an empty plate to lose weight.”
Having being diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, a disease of the heart muscle where the walls of the heart chambers have become stretched, thickened or stiff, Kay had an ICD device fitted around two years ago.
An implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, or ICD, is a device that detects a life-threatening, rapid heartbeat called an arrhythmia.
If it occurs, the ICD
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