Cork woman Tina O’Hare had struggled with her weight ever since she was a child, weighing almost 25-and-a-half stone at her heaviest.
“Mum’s health deteriorated because she was overweight,” she said. “Watching my mother struggling and then passing away, it kind of encouraged me. I always heard her words.” “The first week, week-and-a-half, I did struggle,” admitted Tina. “But then I saw that I was nine-and-a-half pounds down on my first week, and the second week I had over a stone gone.
“It’s just amazing, I feel amazing,” she said. “In my house, I didn’t have mirrors because I hated myself. The names I called myself when I was heavy – I wouldn’t even say them because they were terrible. Even passing a shop window, I wouldn’t look at my reflection.