from 3a to 16 stone a total game changer. i felt immeasurably different. life just seemed easier. you do look at life before and life after, that it was. they are completely different lives. it s nice to get out. but with obesity, things are seldom simple. for tom, losing 18 stone brings new problems. so, the biggest thing that i ve got going for me right now is that i have a fair amount of excess skin. i ve gone through all of this effort and i still can t, you know, pick up this t shirt out of my wardrobe and just wear it, i have to have this compression top on. tom is clearly self conscious about the excess skin. here, there s kind of, just, skin. it will cost him excess of £20,000. step two of the operation would be to kind of pull that skin tight. but he wants it gone, for his confidence and for his self esteem. that kind ofjust creeps into my thoughts because that s one
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going for me right now is that i have a fair amount of excess skin. i ve gone through all of this effort and i still can t, you know, pick up this t shirt out of my wardrobe and just wear it, i have to have this compression top on. tom is clearly self conscious about the excess skin. here, there s kind of, just, skin. it will cost him excess of £20,000. step two of the operation would be to kind of pull that skin tight. but he wants it gone, for his confidence and for his self esteem. that kind ofjust creeps into my thoughts because that s one of the things that gets in my way. i m just sat there thinking, you know, i d like to get rid of this. clever girl. your life is so much freer now, isn t it, it seems to me? yeah, i can go anywhere, do anything. tom s saving hard for the surgery, hoping, finally, for peace of mind. i was thinking how nice it would be to actually post that photo and go, you know, i did it, this is now where i m at. the link between obesity and mental health i
and i still can t, you know, pick up this t shirt out of my wardrobe and just wear it. i have to have this compression top on. tom is saving hard surgery to remove the excess skin could cost more than £20,000. step two of the operation would be to kind of pull that skin tight. but after all the problems, the future looks promising. i was thinking about how nice it would be to actually post that photo and go, i did it. two weeks prior to surgery, and then this was the other day. it s now three months since india s op. she s lost four stone already. six more to go. how have you been? really good. i remember the last time you were here. i was so miserable. your smile is coming through now as well, which is brilliant. yeah, no, i look in the mirror and i m like, hm, you don t look half bad. of course, not everyone can get bariatric surgery, but at least for india, there is new hope. it s years and years of change, but i m excited for the future. that was india ending that report byj
it s non existent. i don t enjoy eating any more. how are you, mentally? honestly? low. really low. i can manage about half a pot of this for dinner. india s stomach is now the size of a pen. food has been my happiness for 15 years. did you ever find yourself even for a moment thinking, 0h, wish i d never done this ? yeah. tom s surgery, four years ago, cost him thousands. losing so much weight so quickly can bring new problems physical and mental. the excess skin kind ofjust plays on it a little bit. that kind of creeps into my thoughts. i d like to get rid of this. i ve gone through all of this effort, and i still can t pick up this t shirt out of my wardrobe and just wear it. i have to have this compression top on. tom is saving hard. surgery to remove the excess skin could cost more than £20,000. step two of the operation would be