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Your Most Commonly Asked Type 2 Diabetes Questions – Answers from a GP

Being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes is a challenging time for the patient with many people finding it emotionally...

I’ve been maintaining my LighterLife weight loss for 26 years!

Growing up in Glasgow in the early 1950s, I always felt like the odd one out in our family. I...

Spilling the Beans on the Wegovy Weight Loss Injection

The Wegovy weight loss injection has hit the UK. Originally licensed for the treatment of Type 2 Diabetes, it...

Now I have an entire dressing room to house all my clothes!

After an accident at work I was struggling with pain in my knee, and I was also at my heaviest....

I feel so much fitter, I can run upstairs and feel in control of my life.

I’ve been a yo yo dieter since my 20s but when I turned 64 I decided it was time to...

I feel so much more confident in how I look. I’m not embarrassed or ashamed by my size anymore.

Whenever I attended weddings, parties and other social events, I always felt like I was wearing a tent rather than...

LighterLife is the best thing I ever did for myself

I first started dieting over 20 years ago (after putting on weight during my teens). Having successfully lost weight back...

What is a high cholesterol and how can we improve it?

Do we really understand what cholesterol is and what having a high cholesterol means? LighterLife’s scientists explains what cholesterol is...

I’m so happy and confident now, LighterLife saved me and changed my life!

I’d been a yo-yo dieter since my teens, trying all kinds of different weight loss plans but nothing ever worked....

There’s not one item of clothing in my wardrobe that I cannot wear!

Having been a yo-yo dieter for most of my adult life (and an overweight teenager), when I hit my 60’s...

I’m 100% happier, healthier, and I’m able to live the life I want to live

Around 5 years ago I began to experience numbness and tingling in my right hands and feet, progressing across a...

I was a size 22, and now I’m a size 10! And I’m enjoying my son’s pride in his mum who’s lost all this weight

I had lots of reasons for wanting to lose weight. Catching a glimpse of my reflection, or seeing a photo,...

It feels amazing to be able to go into any shop and buy clothes

“Why do you look younger than you are? Why is your age going backwards?” After losing nearly 6 stone back...

I’m still getting used to the fact that everything I try on looks nice and fits now!

In January 2022 I decided enough was enough and, fed up with being a larger lady, took the decision to...

I stuck to the LighterLife TotalFast plan and it worked

Nigel lost an amazing 10st on our TotalFast plan and saved money too

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