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A couple have lost nearly 15st between them after she became fed up with being 'the fat parents'
(image: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zaCEZ_RR-xg/hqdefault.jpg)A couple have lost nearly 15st between them after she became fed up with being 'the fat parents'.
Allison Mcluskie, 38, from Dreghorn, near Irvine, who has MS weighed 19st 3lb and wore a dress size 22/24, and knew that slimming down would help improve her mobility.
Meanwhile, her husband Alasdair Mcluskie, 41, who weighed 19st 13lb, was marched off a funfair ride with his son for being too heavy.
The couple also feared they were not setting a healthy example for their son, Jacob, nine, but every time Alison tried to slim she was tempted back to eating calorific food like cooked breakfasts, toasties and takeaways by chef Alasdair.
But 5ft 9in Alison made a dramatic breakthrough in January 2018 when she joined WW and lost 8st 9lbs, with Alisdair joining later the same year and losing 6st.
'I was determined to lose weight and keep it off this time,' she said. 'I was fed up being the fat mum, fat wife and fat friend and wanted to make myself feel better.
(image: ) Allison, 38, and Alisdair Mcluskie, 41, from Dreghorn, near Irvine, Scotland, have lost a combined 15st by going to WW together, and www (why not try these out) ditching their diet of toasties and takeaways
(image: ) Alasdair Mcluskie, who weighed 19st 13lb, was marched off a funfair ride with his son Jacob for being too heavy
'Due to my MS, I was struggling with a lot of basic everyday tasks, so losing weight was one way I knew I could help myself.
'But, because of my health and being unable to do strenuous exercise, most of my weight loss had to be down to what I ate.'
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Allison, whose illness means she cannot work, had a body mass index (BMI), used to gauge a healthy weight, of 39.7, compared to the NHS healthy range of 18.5 to 24.9 when she signed up to the slimming club, making her obese.
Now a healthy 10st 8lb, with a BMI of 21.8 and a slim size 10/12, she was delighted when in August 2021, Alasdair decided to join her and lost 6st in just six months.
(image: ) Alison weighed 19st 3lb and wore a dress size 22/24, and knew that her weight was not making things any easier while dealing with mobility issues caused by MS
Recalling how she had issues with her weight even as a little girl, Allison said: 'I've always been big.
Always the tallest and fattest right through school.
'My mum would take me to slimming classes even when I was a teenager. I was so embarrassed and never really stuck to the plan.
'Over the years I've probably been to every slimming club there is.
I've always lost a bit of weight then went straight back again to my normal eating habits and put it all back on.'
When she finally joined WW, she had hit rock bottom with her weight, saying it was really influencing her moods and damaging her self-confidence.
(image: ) Alison's weight loss was slow because she couldn't exercise due to MS, but she never once gained weight again once she started eating healthily
Also, while there were days when she felt fit and healthy, on others her MS meant she could not get out of bed and being big only increased her battered self esteem and poor body image, which made feeling fat even harder to bear.
She explained: 'I realised that if I carried on going the way I was that I'd have a heart attack and never see our wee boy grow up.
I just wanted to be healthier.'
Allison threw herself into the plan, buying books with new healthy recipes and cooking herself meals from scratch full of vegetables.
While her weight loss was slow, because she could not combine diet with rigorous exercise because of her MS, she never once gained weight in more than three years on the plan.
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