She lost 11 stone
A mum-of-one spent £32,500 on excess skin removal after losing 11 stone. Kate Richmond, 46, who was 26 stone at her heaviest, has undergone a remarkable transformation after embracing a fitness programme and taking up weight lifting.
She now feels so confident she's taken part in a boudoir shoot, adding that several years ago she couldn't have “dreamed” she would look the way she does today. Kate said about the shoot at For Your Eyes Only Portraits studio: “It was amazing. I burst into tears when I arrived, I was so scared. "So as long as my family is not going without, I thought: ‘Why not treat myself a bit’." Kate, who runs KR Aesthetics, in her home town of Heanor, Derbyshire, said she'd reached her heaviest in the lead-up to her pregnancy, just before her husband left her.
“It was comfort eating. It wasn’t eating because I was hungry, and that was one of the hardest things to deal with. On reflection, I was absolutely eating my emotions.” Kate said she didn’t just find it hard to cut down on her calories but also deal with comments that came her way from men, and especially those she dated.
Kate turned a corner in 2019 when she joined a 12-week online exercise programme after seeing a friend, who was bigger than her, shed a lot of weight. She built up her daily step count, first reaching 8,000 a day before hitting 12,000, and then joined a gym where she took up weightlifting, and she can now hip thrust 120kg.
“I spoke to a surgeon, who said I was an ideal candidate. He said I could lose as much weight as I wanted, but it was going to make a difference as it wasn’t fat, it was skin.”
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