Six Pack Chick by Bridget Hunt

Author:Bridget Hunt
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781908746221
Publisher: Ecademy Press

Natasha Woolman’s story

My battle with my weight started when I was a teenager. I grew up in the Caribbean among a privileged circle of beach babes. I was slim, but had a slight pouch and what I now refer to as Beyoncé thighs and a J-Lo bum, neither of which were en-vogue at the time. I grew self-conscious and developed unhealthy issues with my weight. I always covered up on the beach and constantly felt unattractive, comparing myself to my much slimmer and more popular friends. I tried all sorts of diets and slimming aids, including one actually called ‘Aids’ - but that product soon disappeared from the shelves in the 80s! I even starved myself whenever I could get away with it, and all with limited success.

I moved back to England at sixteen to finish my education and lived with my father’s cousin and his wife and kids. I was not entirely happy there (in hindsight that was because I missed my family) and I started to eat, a lot! Copious amounts of crisps, chocolates, chips, burgers – all the foods I shouldn’t have been eating. I grew from there, quite literally. I was a size 12 when I arrived in England and progressively grew to over a size 20/22 at my peak earlier this year. I managed to lose a stone or two in the mid 90s when backpacking through India after my father died when I was 23, but then who wouldn’t! It all came back when we hit the western world again!

My weight stabilised when I was happy and then I really hit rock bottom when my mother died when I was 29. She was diagnosed with stage 2 colon cancer and, following successful surgeries, the cancer was removed and she was due home from hospital for Christmas. She died before she could come home and before I could get to her. I took this really hard and ate my way through my grief. I couldn’t see this at the time and honestly, I think I am realising a lot just writing this. But I digress. I ate more through my pregnancies as I was sad to be having children without my mother and grew some more until I actually became resigned to the fact I was going to be fat.

I must add that I quit a 30–40 a day smoking habit when I found out I was pregnant and this made me comfort eat even more!

Faced with two beautiful daughters and a loving husband, it dawned on me that I had to do something and fast. I was slowly killing myself, increasing my chances of developing cancer like my mother, and heart disease and diabetes like my father, while potentially leaving my girls with no mother. The thought of this made me eat more!

I tried Weight Watchers and managed to lose a few pounds but as usual lost interest in weighing and measuring and tracking. Then I saw what SPC had done for Ingrid Amis while trialling it and I wanted to try it.

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