Because she was overweight, Marianda Geel was used to feeling ugly: the other children at school looked at her in disgust, and things were no different when she became an adult.

She was an emotional eater, too big for the seat on an aeroplane. Then, she started working at a doctor’s practice. Things had to change, Marianda thought, for who was she to be lecturing patients on what it meant to be healthy? This is our most inspiring weight-loss story yet – of a woman who ran off 120kg.

Read more about Marianda’s inspirational story in the June issue, on sale now. Get your copy here.

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