Rob Phillips burst into tears when he looked in the mirror and saw what had happened to his body. It was in lockdown and all his good work in slimming down from his previous 22 stone had been undone.
"I went out with friends and looked in the mirror and I broke down crying because I didn't want to go out anywhere because I felt like a fraud and a failure because I had gained the weight again. My life was falling apart because my daily routine changed so much. I sat in the house and went back to old eating habits," said Rob, 37.
He had been a member of Slimming World for 18 years, eventually becoming a consultant, a role he has held for 11 years. It helped him lose seven stone. But when lockdown hit, Rob, from Ebbw Vale, found himself slipping back into old habits, and before he knew it, he had re-gained almost all the weight he had worked so hard to lose. You can get more Swansea news and other story updates by subscribing to our newsletters here.
