Lose weight or go BLIND

DRAMATIC WARNING THAT MADE ME LOSE FIVE STONE

- GEORGE LYTHGOE

A WOMAN told she could go blind if she did not lose weight she could lose her eyesight has successfully lost five stone.

Gill Worsley lost the weight over the course of two years with Specialist Weight Management Service (SWMS), run by Wigan council.

Gill, from Winstanley, received the shocking diagnosis about her eyesight late last year, and says it was the turning point in her health battle. She embarked on the SWMS, which she says helped to better understand her relationship with food and how it linked to her own childhood trauma.

SWMS has, in her words, changed her life.

“The two-year weight management program helped me have a better relationship with food," she said. “The first year I was up and down with it, but I then got diagnosed with idiopathic intracranial hypertension.

“I was told I had to lose weight or I may lose my eyesight. This definitely made me sit up and listen more.

“At the weight management program, you have both group and individual support, from dietitians, doctors, physiologists and occupational therapists.