Lin Is Now Picture Perfect After Losing Her Excess Pounds ; Slimming for Most People, the Lure of All Things Sugary Is an Excuse to Pile On the Pounds, but for Lin Degg, Working in a Bakery Was a Temptation Too Far. After Years of Yo-Yo Dieting, a Trip to Her Local Slimming World Would Be the Step She Needed to Conquer Her Weight Demons Once and for All, Writes Kelly Edgington

Sentinel, The; Stoke-on-Trent (UK) › September 02, 2009

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IT WAS photographs of her youngest daughter's wedding that made Lin Degg realise she needed to lose weight.

The 60-year-old former Manor Bakeries worker had struggled with her weight most of her life, but seeing it pictured brought home the realisation that she had to take permanent action or face serious health problems.

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Lin Is Now Picture Perfect After Losing Her Excess Pounds ; Slimming for Most People, the Lure of All Things Sugary Is an Excuse to Pile On the Pounds, but for Lin Degg, Working in a Bakery Was a Temptation Too Far. After Years of Yo-Yo Dieting, a Trip to Her Local Slimming World Would Be the Step She Needed to Conquer Her Weight Demons Once and for All, Writes Kelly Edgington

"I'd always been slim as a teenager and weighed seven stone when I was 17," says Lin, who lives in Mayne Road, Hanford.

"I met my first husband when I was 19, and by the time I got married at 21 my weight had gone up to nine stone 2lbs. I was ab...

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