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Paul Hogg, 56, has lost almost a third of his body weight.
“I’d been trying to lose the weight - on and off - for around 20 years before I got proper, achievable targets sorted out,” he told The Gazette.
Mr Hogg’s road, however, has not been straightforward, as - despite his overall weight loss during the period - he says the initial boredom of lockdown threw new obstacles in his way.
He said: I put about nine pounds on during the first few weeks of the original lockdown. I was just sitting around the house doing nothing. I said to myself, ‘If I keep doing this, I’ll just put all the weight I’ve lost back on again – which I’d done before’. So that was when I decided to start going out for walks, walking all over the place, which helped me lose another three stone.