A locum dental receptionist who thought she “might just die” around her 40th birthday because she was almost 18 stone has lost half her body weight. Jo Stapley says she would encourage anyone who is on a weight loss journey to “just go for it”.
The 46-year-old mother of two is 5ft 3in and weighed 17 stone 10lb (112.5kg) when she was at her heaviest after developing “really bad, lazy habits”, such as getting regular takeaways and not exercising. But while Jo says she has always been “fairly confident” and “never actually felt really fat”, she tells how she could not walk up the stairs or a slope without getting out of breath.
And she says when she would bend down to tie her shoelaces it gave her “a really horrible pain” in her ribs. But After joining WW (formerly Weight Watchers) in 2016, Jo has lost 42% of her body weight, dropping from a size 22 to a size 10 and reaching 10 stone 3lb (64.9kg) – and her shoe size has even decreased from a size 6 to a size 5.
