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Sam Volpe

After losing 10 stone in a year, Whitley Bay lass Lucy now wants to help others transform their lives at her very own gym

Lucy Brydon shed an astonishing amount of weight in just 14 months, now - as she takes over running the gym which helped her on the way - she wants to inspire others.

Back in 2018, 5ft 1in lass Lucy, 26, weighed 18 stone and 8 pounds. and felt awful about herself. Struggling with fad diets, she was desperate to feel better about herself and improve her fitness drastically. After educating herself about fitness and diet, she took a back-to-basics approach - now she's about to take over in charge at Ocean-Fit gym in her hometown of Whitley Bay.

"It was just awful. I was getting bigger and bigger. Things were getting worse and worse, and the more reclusive I got, the worse I got," she told ChronicleLive. "After many attempts and failures at losing weight through slimming clubs, fad diets, juices, shakes, I was the biggest and unhappiest I had ever been.

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