Sylvia's problem has now reached the critical stage, fortunately help is at hand but it is no easy option. Sylvia has to undergo an operation to fit a balloon into her stomach. The whole point is that I want her to lose about 10 kilograms of fat. Sylvia situation is by no means unique in the North East. Obesity, a disease defined by a persons weight in relation to their height, has increased threefold over the last twenty years.
Obese people are twice as likely to die from heart disease as people of a healthy weight.
It was a heart attack that made James Kelly finally sit up and listen. I would tell him a pack of lies. I would say I am not eating, I don't know how I am not losing any weight, but then I would go out and have fish and chips and a couple of pies. James' favourite meal was equal to one and a half thousand calories. To burn it off James would have to work out for three hours.