A mum-of-three who was having epileptic seizures up to four times a week and “in pain all the time” has said she now has episodes only around twice a month since losing eight stone. Nicola Atkins, 29, who is 4ft 11in tall, said she was diagnosed with epilepsy in 2012 after being punched by a stranger in Croydon, and her seizures would typically arise from stress or exhaustion.
When she reached her heaviest weight of 15 stone in 2015 after the birth of her first child, she said she would have seizures several times a week and they would put a lot of strain on her body. Nicola said she was “in pain all the time”, both physically and mentally, and she felt “rubbish”.
But after losing eight stone in 10 months with WW (formerly Weight Watchers), dropping from a size 22 to size 8, she now experiences only around two seizures a month and is “much happier”. Nicola explained: “I was in town, and these kids ran past this drunk guy and I went to go and help him up and he punched me, and since then I’ve had epilepsy.
