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    BULK SMASH!

    Oct 31, 2019 6 minutes
    Words by Hattie Bishop

    Sammie Todd, 52, Peterborough

    Shuffling around the house after my baby was in bed, I gazed in the mirror and wondered where my lovely figure had gone.

    I’d always been slender in school, but after getting married and having my first baby I noticed that I was finding it hard to shift the weight.

    ‘I’ll go for a run next week, I’m feeling a little porky,’ I said to my husband, Paul, 54, optimistically when baby Charlotte was just six months old.

    I hid myself away and lied to everyone

    ‘Oh good plan, I might join you!’ he replied, supportive and caring as always.

    But before I’d had a chance to go into town to get myself some running shoes, we found out that I was expecting again.

    After that I just kept falling pregnant and we went on to have, Daryl, now 34, Laura, now 31, and

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