Nina Trapp

I like food. Always have, always will – and I was a boredom eater in complete denial. My weight has gone up and down for as long as I can remember. At my heaviest, I weighed 17.2 stone after the birth of my daughter and with the increase in photos being taken – I hated how I looked. I quickly decided that enough was enough and I needed to shift this weight now and forever!! My partner had also recently proposed so if this wasn’t an incentive, I don’t know what was! My friend had asked whether I had heard about The Slimming Clinic and when I looked on their website, I really related to some of the previous slimmers’ stories. I’ve previously tried all kinds of diets before – calorie controlled diets, meal replacement shakes and herbal alternatives and although I did lose weight, it went back on really quickly and even more!!! I read more into the weight loss programme with The Slimming Clinic and read about the prescribed medication - nowadays, there is a stigma attached to ‘slimming medication’ and when I first read about the treatment at The Slimming Clinic I was apprehensive. I always run things past my parents as well but when I mentioned the name of the medication I was surprised to hear that my Dad was familiar with it which instantly made me feel better about it as well. So I went for it - I joined The Slimming Clinic and haven't looked back! I have not felt restricted to certain foods, or even food in general! It’s as if the medication has taught me to eat at the right times and not all day!

I don’t have any specific downfalls with food (I’ll eat anything!) but always found it hard to say no. I was always easily influenced so if someone even suggested the word takeaway, I’d already be searching through the menu! Having an almost 3 year old as well, there’s never enough time in the day so by the time it came round to my dinner time, I looked for the easiest/quickest option. I LOVE trying on and buying new and different clothes which I previously wouldn’t have had the confidence to wear and now I can even share some of my friends clothes which I haven’t been able to do since I was about 14! Before, I hated always going straight to the back of the rail for the bigger sizes when shopping for new clothes. I actually now can tell when I am full and feel that I can say no to those tempting foods if I’m just simply not hungry. I used to think about food all day every day and now I even have the energy to go for walks, go to the gym and spend more quality time with my family doing things.