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Woman who ‘couldn’t wear shoes’ because of her size shares food swaps that helped her shed half her bodyweight

Durham woman Christine Burnell, 59, loves baking and began comfort eating after her husband died of cancer in 2007 – ballooning to more than 19st by 2019

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Obese woman who ‘couldn’t wear shoes’ because of her size shares the simple food swaps that saw her shed half her bodyweight

Durham woman Christine Burnell, 59, loves baking and began comfort eating after her husband died of cancer in 2007 – ballooning to more than 19st by 2019

The Independent UK

A homemade yurt and twittering wildlife: How going ‘off-grid’ can protect against the cost of living crisis

Mother-of-three Briar Miller, 55, moves around the Welsh countryside every six months and assembles a yurt wherever she goes

The Independent UK

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Obese woman who ‘couldn’t wear shoes’ because of her size shares the simple food swaps that saw her shed half her bodyweight

Durham woman Christine Burnell, 59, loves baking and began comfort eating after her husband died of cancer in 2007 – ballooning to more than 19st by 2019

The Independent UK

British mother prepares to wed US pen pal she’s never met— because he’s in jail for brutal murder

Bristol single mum-of-four Laura O’Sullivan, 32, will marry Terrell Ravon Reese, 31, next year in a Michigan jail 3,560 miles away

The Independent UK

From £60 a week to six-figure success: Meet the single mother who turned her off-grid life into a £120K business

Diana Hamill Page, 50, of North Yorkshire, spent five years living in a caravan off-grid with her three children, honing their survival skills

The Independent UK

Woman reveals telltale symptoms after confusing her brain tumour with menopause

East Sussex design and production manager Anna Kane, 49, is falling in love with her husband again after having her brain tumour removed

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‘Psychic’ food-hoarder who foresaw Covid gets the last laugh as supermarket prices soar

Ian Coulthard, 52, of Tyne and Wear, is constantly prepared in case of civil war or a terrorist attack, which he has safeguarded against for 20 years

The Independent UK

Woman, 25, stunned to discover her ‘depression and chronic exhaustion’ was genetic heart failure

When Sheffield woman Katie Denial, 32, gained 6st in four months despite joining a slimming club after a break-up, she was suspected of comfort eating

The Independent UK

‘If I change one mind, it’s worth it’: Swimmer overcomes body shame to lead 900-strong open water club

East Yorkshire mother Claire Keable, 48, had a lockdown epiphany after realising she did not want her daughter to share her hang-ups and faced her demons

The Independent UK

Woman makes £80,000 a month on OnlyFans thanks to her height and fridge trick

Marie, 27, took to online content after losing her job during the pandemic

Wales Online

Man who tipped the scales at nearly 23st turns his health around with ‘fat-busting football league’

Ashley Smith, 23, of Oxfordshire, slims down to 14st 2lb after ditching McDonald’s burgers and KFC fried chicken and taking up MAN v FAT footie

The Independent UK

Club helps man lose 117lbs of lockdown takeaway weight in a year

Ashley Smith, 23, saw his weight spiral out of control in lockdown eating up to two takeaways a day

Wales Online

Nurse plagued by acne for seven years cures her skin problems with an £18 fake tan

Glasgow paediatric nurse Emma Young, 23, had tried everything to cure her acne without success only for a self tanner to clear her skin

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Dancer loses legs to unexplained blood clot but gets chance to waltz again thanks to ‘bionic limbs’

County Durham executive Jo Spencer, 54, plans to dance with her husband to the song that sealed their love

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Meet the champion snowboarder who has no feeling below her knees

Nina Sparks, 31, refused to let her love affair with mountain sports end after she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in March 2021

The Independent UK

The woman who can’t smile: Meet the mother with a permanent poker face caused by rare genetic condition

Canadian mother Alexandrea Comstock, 26, has facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy and was friendless until she adopted her pig, Hammy

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‘Eyes in the back of my head!’ Meet the blind woman fearlessly scaling walls as high as London’s 180m Gherkin

Hampshire Guide Dogs volunteer Theresa Osborne-Bell, 41, climbs walls with the agility of a squirrel despite being blind

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Support worker reveals how a ‘pearly pimple’ turned out to be aggressive skin cancer

Yorkshire mother Debbie Lindley, 49, fears she will eventually lose most of her face because of skin cancer

The Independent UK

‘I’ve never felt happier’: Triathlete reveals how freak accident that left her with PTSD led her to true love

Kat Parkin, 39, of Somerset, found romance with a fellow athlete who she was introduced to by the mindset coach treating her for PTSD

The Independent UK

Young barista left stunned after pimple-like lump turns out to be rapidly growing breast cancer

Siobhan Harrison, now 24, of South Wales, was horrified when tests revealed she had stage 2 triple negative breast cancer

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‘Now I know who I am’: Adopted woman reveals how she reunited with her birth mother after 44 years

Londoner Katherine Samwell-Smith, 45, was six months old when she met her adoptive parents on a luggage trolley at Gatwick Airport in 1977

The Independent UK

Woman left balding and bedbound by chronic eczema clears the condition with a £9 face cream

Kimberley Reardon, 30, of South Lanarkshire, could not move without her skin weeping or peeling until she used a simple over the counter remedy

The Independent UK

Portrait artist marks the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee by creating a ‘wrinkles and all’ Her Majesty Barbie doll

Bristol mum-of-three Lou Gray, 61, started creating portraits during the March 2020 lockdown using Barbie and Action Man dolls as her blueprint

The Independent UK

Woman left balding and bedbound by chronic eczema clears the condition with a £9 face cream

Kimberley Reardon, 30, of South Lanarkshire, could not move without her skin weeping or peeling until she used a simple over the counter remedy

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