, said:"I used to get upset every time we’d go out to meet friends or something and I’d never be able to find something that I liked in the wardrobe because it didn’t fit, or I felt frumpy in it. They were unhappy times in that respect, but I’ve almost forgotten that now because my life turned around when I was 50; the best thing I ever did was to lose all that weight.
Dee said:"Having always been big at school and called ‘fatty’ and all those horrible names that kids use, when I got older and had the children, each time I had a child, I piled on a little bit more weight, and a little bit more weight until I was the best part of 14 stone. Being so short, it really didn’t look very nice, and then the menopause hit… so I said to my husband, ‘I’ve got to do something, I’ve got to try and lose some weight’.
"I started doing it regularly and after about 18 months, we saw an instructor’s workshop going on at our club and I said, ‘I could do that’. By that time, I had lost all the weight and I was really strong and fit, so I became an instructor, and I taught Bodypump for 22 years."