LighterLife on the web
June 2009
Butcher loses some flesh of his own
June 24
2009, ledburyreporter.co.uk
WELL-known Bromyard butcher Anthony Legge managed to resist the
smell of his own sizzling bacon to lose an incredible five-stones
in just a few months.
Replacement shakes diet makes a comeback
June 24 2009, dailyrecord.co.uk
IT was the ultimate diet of the Nineties and now the meal
replacement shakes are back. Slim Fast style dieting, the most
popular and talked about weight loss system of 10 years ago, has
returned to the fore this summer as more and more women take up the
new Lighter Life and Exante Diet schemes.
Slimming banished my comfort food blues for good
June 16 2009, thisisstaffordshire.co.uk
Diane Hunt has spent her life trying to lose weight, and now that
she's successfully lost more than six stone, she's dropped five
dress sizes – and she's fitter and happier too, writes Colette
Warbrook.
Dieter loses half her body weight in six
months
June 12 2009, Northern
Echo online
A WEIGHT loss programme that makes followers totally rethink their
relationship with food has helped a Northallerton woman to shed
almost half her body weight in just six months.
Just a throng at twilight...
June 10 2009, Whitehaven News online
Among those who took part in the walk were four women from Mayfield
School, in Whitehaven. They were doing it in memory of a former
teacher at the school.
Former 'fat slob' golfer's back on course after losing amazing
139lbs
June 10 2009, Northampton Chronicle online
A Northampton man whose weight stopped him from enjoying a round of
golf is now back on course after losing an incredible third of his
body weight.
May 2009
I lost 5½ stone and became a catwalk queen
May 27, 2009, Getreading
It’s often assumed women want to lose weight for a slimmer figure.
But Heather Ashby-Kinge, from Woodley, tells City Woman how
battling the bulge changed her entire lifestyle for the better.
Read about
LighterLife in the Daily Mail - newspaper
24 May 2009, The Daily Mail
With the NHS struggling to cope with a range of weight-related
conditions from diabetes to high blood pressure and heart disease,
LighterLife has been hailed as a lifeline by some doctors who see
it as an alternative to costly weight loss (bariatric) operations
such as gastric bands...
THEYDON BOIS: Office worker in marathon slimming session
May 21, 2009, Guardian
Series
After joining the LighterLife
program of dieting, Jim changed his unhealthy old life for a new
fitness regime with the effects proving particularly dramatic
...
A slimmer new life begins at 60 for margaret
May 21, 2009, Sheffield Telegraph
Her case was
highlighted by the magazine LighterLife after she
lost over seven stone. Margaret, who lives in Sothall, Sheffield,
had been big since ...
Is it ok to diet with
shakes?
18 May 2009, The Times
My mum has yo-yo dieted ever since I can remember. She is in
her mid-forties and wants to go on a very low calorie,
meal-replacement plan. What do you think?
How Laurence's wife
lost five stone on just 500 calories a day
17 May
2009, The Mail on Sunday
It takes a lot to upstage flamboyant interior designer Laurence
Llewelyn-Bowen. But when he stepped out onto the red carpet
last week it wasn't his dapper outfit that turned heads
but his wife Jackie's dramatic weight loss.
Slimmers' fashion show today
May 16,
2009, Reading
Chronicle
The seven women and one
man who lost weight through diet programme LighterLife will be
modelling Debenhams clothes at Reading Town Hall in Blagrave
Street...
We banished our middle
aged spread
11 May 2009, Daily
Express
Three women tell Bonnie Estridge how they put paid to their
age-related wobbles, droops and bulges...
My name is Jane and I'm a food
addict...
5 May 2009, Bella
Weighing 12 stone at the age of 12 was tough - I just didn't fit in
at school. The jokes would always be at my expense...
April 2009
Laurence and Jackie
Llewelyn-Bowen
21 April 2009, Hello!
Jackie is featured together with her interior designer husband and
they both discuss her weight loss journey. There is three full
pages on the interview and some lovely pictures showing her
fabulous new figure after going on the LighterLife Programme.
I'm ready to meet Mr
Wondeful!
13 April 2009, Woman
Melanie O'Hare talks of how she lost the extra weight she
carried around for ten years and how she coped.
I lost five
stone by wife of TV's Llewelyn-Bowen Front Page
Punishing diet
changed my life P3
9 April 2009, Daily Express
Jackie Llewelyn-Bowen features in the Daily Express detailing her
LighterLife journey and how the programme changed her life. Also
features 'a day in the life on LighterLife'.
Love made me lose 10st
7 April 2009, Best
Alison Morris describes how she found the love of her life after
losing 10st on the LighterLife Programme.
Losing 16 stone has
given us the chance to live life to the full
2 April 2009, Daily Express
Sisters Susanne Laws and Michelle Robinson talk of why they made
their decisions to go on LighterLife and their experience on the
programme.
March 2009
The woman who sniffed herself
thin
3 March 2009, Bella
Leigh Richardson-Hill explains how sniffing food throughout her
LighterLife journey helped her keep motivated.
'I decided to change my
look'
1 March 2009, Sainsburys Magazine
Claire Breaker-Finch tells her reason why she started LighterLife
and how she feels now.
The best new ways to
slim
1 March 2009, Sweet
Along with four other weight loss programmes, LighterLife is
featured in this article.
February 2009
Ultimate guide to losing
weight
16 February 2009, Daily Express
LighterLife featured amongst other ways to lose weight.
Hospice gains pounds from
weight loss firm
12 February 2009, Harlow Star
LighterLife featured in the local newspaper telling
how Central Office raised money for Little Havens.
Laurence's lighter wife
2 February 2009, Woman
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's wife, Jackie, is featured in Woman on how
she lost weight with LighterLife.
January 2009
Video: Watch Jackie Llewelyn-Bowen
on GMTV
Video: Watch Jackie Llewelyn-Bowen
on LKToday.
Going
for a LighterLife
23 January 2009,
Brentford and Chiswick Informer
Article featuring new Counsellor Manisha Bhakoo setting up her own
local LighterLife Counselling sessions..
Jackie: When I look in the mirror I
still see a fat person
20 January
2009, Bella
Interview with Jackie Llewelyn-Bowen explaining what it's like to
be 'thin' and what her famous husband thinks too.
Slimmer of the
week
13 January 2009, Best
Christina Teles featured as Slimmer of the Week.
My brutal
makeover (Page1) (Page
2)
11 January 2009, Daily Mail
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's wife, Jackie, talks of how she lost 5st
on the LighterLife Programme with the help of Tanya Patricot in
Cirencester. She talks very positively of her experience overall,
and is very balanced and credible!
One in 10 obese people go over
a year without sex
6 January 2009,
Herald AM
Sex survey results are featured in a local newspaper.
My HEART always rules my
HIPS
3 January 2009, Fabulous
Maxine Williams shows how different stages of her relationship
altered her weight.
I lost 10 stone in a
year
3 January 2009, Daily Mail
Alicia Blaney explains how joining LighterLife has changed her life
for the better.
December 2008
Welcome to Bella's Slimmer of the
Year
30 December 2008, Bella
Zoe Best is featured as one of Bella's Slimmer of the Year
finalists.
Somethin's
different
18 December 2008, The Scottish
Sun
Aileen Hendry's story mentions how her new boyfriend cannot believe
how she looked pre-LighterLife!
I drank my way to 14
stone
9 December 2008, Bella
Joanna explains how the divorce of her parents and a stressful job
caused her to turn to alcohol and therefore gain
weight.
I looked like
a big blue pig!
5 December 2008, Daily Mirror
Zoe Isted tells of how seeing a picture of herself in a blue
tankini made her take the step to losing weight with
LighterLife.
November 2008
LighterLife receives best
score out of 9 diet trials
11 November 2008, Best
LighterLife, along with eight other diets, were trialled for 30
days. See the article for more information on why LighterLife
received 10/10
I didn't want to be a fat bride!
14 November
2008, Daily Mirror
Stephany Harris-Cloake speaks out of her bullying and the reasons
she chose LighterLife.
October 2008
Easy target for a
bully
27 October 2008, Daily Mirror
Bullying survey results featured in the Daily Mirror.
Naked ladies raise £10,000 for
charity
13 ladies from the Coventry
area have raised over £10,000 for Breast Cancer Research UK after
posing for a naked calendar.
Overweight "still called names"
13 October 2008, Nursing in Practice
Mandy Cassidy, of weight loss specialist
LighterLife, which commissioned the survey, said:
"It's sad that adults now find such behaviour acceptable.
...
Fat: the final frontier
when it comes to insulting others
13 October 2008, The Daily Telegraph
Bullying survey results showing name calling.
Overweight people suffer
abuse - and give it too
13 October 2008, The
Guardian
Bullying survery results with Ian Campbell quote.
Fashion expert Gok Wan surprises Wales on Sunday winner
12 October 2008, WalesOnline
- United Kingdom
The 35-year-old, who recently lost 4st on the
LighterLife diet, added: “Since losing weight, I
don’t really know what I should wear. ...
GILLIAN LOSES FIVE STONE IN FOUR MONTHS
11 October 2008, Lisburn Ulster Star - Lisburn,Northern
Ireland,UK
Transport manager Gillian joined Lighterlife in
Lisburn as a birthday treat just 12 weeks before she celebrated her
30th birthday when she weighed 16 stone. ...
Mediaedge:cia wins coveted Fresh Media award
10 October 2008, Brand Republic - London,UK
Feather Brooksbank, last year's winner of agency of the year, won
the award for use of planning and research for the weightloss
programme LighterLife,
...
I weighted 21st at 21!
Daily Mirror, 3
October 2008
Joanne Reilly, one of our Counsellors explains how LighterLife
worked for her.
September 2008
We lost 65st between us...then we
stripped off for a calendar
Sunday Mirror - Celebs on Sunday
21 September 2008
Twelve of Jenny McDonald's clients bare all for charity.
Helping the Stroke
Association to gain pounds
Stroke News
1 September 2008
Article outlining LighterLife's involvement in helping raise money
for Stroke Association with BMI4Life campaign.
August 2008
How I met my future
husband
Healthy - August 2008
Jenny talks of how she lost nearly seven stone with LighterLife and
then met her future husband...
How I recorded an album
Healthy - August 2008
Debs talks of how losing weight on the LighterLife Programme
enabled her to stop using walking sticks and her wheelchair,
amongst other things.
July 2008
Health and Beauty: The light way to lose weight
Halifax Evening Courier, UK - 28 July 2008
At the end of last year he was told about a weight loss programme
called LighterLife by a male work colleague who had tried it and
lost weight. ...
Mum and daugher lose 15 stone - together!
Mirror.co.uk, UK - 15 July 2008
So the pair signed up for LighterLife which replaces food with
milkshakes and soups until you've hit your target weight. Both
women were assigned diet ...
June 2008
How Sian got her shine
back (June 2008)
Sian lost over 3 stone in 3 months to put her health back on
track. Two years later she's still in great shape and looking
forward to her fabulous 50s.
Sweet magazine
A tasty challenge (22/06/08)
LighterLife takes part in Ready, Steady, Cook challenge...
this is hampshire.net, UK
Say I Do to a Lighter Life (21/06/08)
If you're looking to lose weight before the big day,
LighterLife could be your answer...
RedOrbit, TX
I knew I was big but it was a shock when they told me I was
obese (11/06/08)
"I had tried all types of diets and they hadn't worked for me so I
joined LighterLife," she says...
BirminghamMail.net, UK
A life of heartache and despair made me addicted to food
(08/06/08)
Anne had been a secret comfort-eater all her life. But after a
series of tragic miscarriages her bingeing went out of
control...
Mirror.co.uk, UK
I lost 8st and beat my secret snack habit (06/06/08)
A friend told me LighterLife had worked for
her so I made an appointment to see one of their
Counsellors...
Mirror.co.uk, UK
The real
10 years younger (02/06/08)
After a lifetime of being fat and frumpy, Nadine from Lincolnshire
decided to take action.
Woman's Own
May 2008
Weighty problem costs NHS Lothian £60000 each
day (30/06/08)
42 year old Jo lost more than six stone on LighterLife and would
like to see the NHS helping people who comfort eat...
Scotsman, United Kingdom
Dying for another piece of cake? (28/05/08)
Lighterlife's BMI4Life campaign helps people understand how weight
can affect their health...
Nafferton Today, UK