My weightloss Story

1. Transforming
I lost 10 stone
in 10 months!
Blimey! But then I looked
like I was wearing
a deflated fat-suit!
Pedro would always tell me.
What? I was fat, ugly, useless!
And those cruel fairground
comments had really hurt.
‘I can’t go on like this!’ I wept.
So my GP put me down for
Chat’s on
a gastric bypass.
Meanwhile, I scoffed cheesy
pasta, mountains of meatballs.
By Angela Chouaib, 34, from Rochester Until I got a date for my
operation – 6 January 2009.
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M
ummy, we’re going to my hubby Pedro, 32. Only food Now I had a strict, pre-op diet.
fly!’ Alia, 3, squealed could comfort me now. Hell! But worth it, because
Facebook!
as we queued for the I was 28, had met sexy Pedro after the op, I lost 3st in a month.
fairground while working as a And after 10 months, I’d lost 10st!
bungee trampoline.
‘We are!’ I grinned.
Years holiday rep in Crete
four years before.
But rolls of loose skin hung
from my arms and thighs.
Er – no, we weren’t…
‘You’re too fat,’ the
ago, I was Back then I’d been
slim, fun-loving, sexy.
My 42GG boobs were 34FF
empty sacks and I had to tuck
attendant sneered.
‘You’ll break it.’
slim and But, since having
Alia in March 2001, I’d
my belly skin into my knickers!
I felt like I was wearing
www.facebook.com/ChatMagazine Mortifying. fun-loving! ballooned to 15st – and a deflated fat-suit – so feeling
I grabbed Alia’s
hand and fled.
I was only 5ft 3in.
When our son
depressed, I went to the GP.
He approved me for a NHS
I felt fat, ugly, useless!
‘Don’t worry, let’s do the Malik arrived in October 2005, tummy tuck and breast uplift. two years,’ the doctor warned me.
Be our friend... rollercoaster instead,’ I said. my weight soared to 19st 10lb. ‘But the waiting list is To go private would cost an
Lovi
the nng
But it was the same there… ‘I think you’re gorgeous,’ eye-watering £20,000!
‘You’ll have to So, online, I found a clinic
e
me! w
get off!’ I was told in Wroclaw, Poland, where
Write on our Wall... when the safety
bar wouldn’t lock.
I wanted to cry…
the op would be just £3,000.
I flew out for surgery
in November 2009.
‘Let’s eat!’ I said to And woke up in heaven!
Post your comments... My waist was firm and
What op?
slim, my boobs a pert 34D.
To celebrate my new look,
Have a laugh! A tummy tuck
Pedro and I went to Venice
for our 10th anniversary.
We were just like young
(abdominoplasty) lovers all over again!
Join in the fun today! is an operation to
remove excess
skin and fat from
Then it hit me. Could I
give other people their lives
back? Just like I’d got mine.
So last November I started
the abdomen.
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Secret Surgery (www.secret
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As told to Tiffany Sherlock
(mastopexy) arranging holidays including
Follow Chat on Twitter! changes breast plastic surgery and high-tech
aftercare in clinics abroad.
shape by taking Now, I’d like to thank the
http://twitter.com/ChatMagazine away sections of
redundant skin.
Angela: from
flabby to fab
staff at that fair. Their cruel
comments changed my life.
Fair play to them!
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