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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Last year Bruce Drummond, 55, from Ellesmere, Shropshire, weighed 23-and-a-half stone and had a 54 inch waist. Everything was an effort, even walking round the supermarket. Just one year later Bruce has lost eight stone and his GP has advised he may soon be able to come off his Type 2 diabetes medication. Diabetes UK caught up with Bruce …
Congratulations, what a difference a year makes! What made you decide to lose the weight?
I simply got really fed up of being so fat! I became a barrister in 1992 and from then on, due to my sedentary lifestyle and pressure at work, I started to pile on the weight. At one point I was having to deal with the death of my sister and my father as well as my divorce, and to be honest I was just eating and drinking too much. I ballooned and then continued to get bigger and bigger.
https://www.diabetes.org.uk/About_us/News/Mountain-man/
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Congratulations, what a difference a year makes! What made you decide to lose the weight?
I simply got really fed up of being so fat! I became a barrister in 1992 and from then on, due to my sedentary lifestyle and pressure at work, I started to pile on the weight. At one point I was having to deal with the death of my sister and my father as well as my divorce, and to be honest I was just eating and drinking too much. I ballooned and then continued to get bigger and bigger.
https://www.diabetes.org.uk/About_us/News/Mountain-man/
🙂
