Maureen Edwards

Lost 19 stone

I went to a barbecue one day. It was packed out with people. I’d got up to get some food and I’d piled up my plate (I don’t mind admitting now that I had a food addiction – I knew how big I was, but I was just addicted to food). Anyway, I’d sat back down and when I needed to get up again I couldn’t get out of the chair.

I found out later that when we’d arrived my sister had found me the biggest chair there – it was one of those white plastic outdoor chairs – but I just couldn’t get out. I could feel it buckling underneath me and the legs splaying out under my weight, so I shouted for my husband to come and help.

Everyone was laughing and I tried to laugh along too, but the humiliation was breaking my heart. The arms of the chair were embedded in my thighs (72-inch thighs!) and drawing blood. There was blood all over my white trouser suit and in the end I couldn’t pretend to laugh any more and I was sobbing my heart out.

It took my husband and another friend to finally get me out, shattering the arm of the chair in the process. It was on the way home in the car, still sobbing, that I decided to do something, and I thought about Paul McKenna’s weight-loss CDs because a friend had recommended them.

I wasn’t convinced though, because I’d tried so many diets in the past, and although you always have a little ray of hope that this one will work for you, it usually doesn’t.

Anyway, the next morning, still not convinced, I put on a pair of tracky bottoms and a baggy T-shirt, but covered them up with a big coat and went out with a carrier bag so my neighbours would think I was going shopping! I was going on a 2-mile walk, but at the top of the hill I had to phone Ron to come and get me. I was too exhausted to get home and I knew I was too overweight to do it without help. That really was it.

The next day I got hold of Paul McKenna’s CDs, went upstairs to play them, and I can honestly say that’s the day my life changed.

Now I take him to bed every night! I’m the manager of a gym and some days I take up to three aerobics classes a day. I’m so full of life now. Sometimes I think back to not even being able to reach round to wipe my own backside! I know that sounds disgusting but that’s how big I was! I’ve gone from 28 stone to 9 stone in two years and every day I still feel great about how different life feels. And I help other people too. I’m the Mo in Motivation! And if I can do it, anybody can.

Maureen Edwards
 

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