Wednesday 25 January 2017

I was too fat for SEX - so I lost six stone to save my marriage

Sue Hayes feared going to bed every night in the event that her better half Lee had any sentimental thoughts. When he put a cherishing arm around her she would mutter she was drained, move over and turn off the light.

For Sue loathed her body. She was a size 24 and weighed 18st 10lbs, and was persuaded Lee would be sickened by her exposed moves of fat.

A blend of being pregnant with her fourth youngster and adapting to the passing of her dad implied that the 47-year-old cleaner had heaped on five stone in one year alone.

Be that as it may, she hadn't generally been corpulent.

When she wedded Lee, 39, additionally a cleaner, on Valentine's Day 1995, she was a sound 10st 5lbs however as the years passed by her weight pick up began to influence her trust in the room, about consummation their marriage.

Sue, from York, had remained thin in spite of having three kids, Michelle, 29, Leanne, 27 and Lee, 24 from a past relationship, and after that Billy, who is 19, with Lee.

"At the point when my dad, Arthur, passed away in April 1995 my weight pick up began with a retaliation.

"I swung to sustenance to adapt and comfort ate to improve myself feel. I couldn't be tried to cook sound dinners, so all things being equal I decided on takeaways and unfortunate quick fixes . I'd cook the kids sound custom made suppers, yet arrange in a major Chinese takeaway for myself and Lee.

Sue Hayes, with spouse, Lee

Sue and Lee on their big day in 1995, preceding Sue begain to put on weight (Photo: Daily Mirror)

"At that point I would open the ice chest and get a family-sized bar of chocolate and devastate it before the TV. I'd frequently eat an entire multipack of crisps in one go, as well. There was no ceasing me. I was eating considerably excessively.

"The issue was, the more I ate the more awful I felt about myself, so I needed to eat once more. It was an endless loop. Following a night of voraciously consuming food, I'd guarantee to be great the following day.

"Be that as it may, it would dependably wind up going a similar way. At that point I got pregnant with Billy and when I had him in 1996 I was five stone heavier."

Sue attempted to beat the lump by eating less carbs , yet would dependably fall at the main obstacle.

"A commonplace yo-yo health food nut, I attempted every one of the eating regimens under the sun and I'd figure out how to lose a couple stone, just to heap the weight back on once more," she says.

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"By May 2010 I tipped the scales at just about 19st and I was a huge size 24. I felt lazy and low. Specialists were perpetually annoying me to shed pounds when I started enduring an endless rundown of medical problems, for example, kidney issues, an excited spleen and a greasy liver. I additionally had joint issues.

"What ought to have been a 10-minute stroll to the nearby shops used to take me 30 minutes and left me gasping for breath and in huge agony. My lower back, hips, knees and lower legs would throb because of abundance weight.

"My certainty took a battering, as well and I remained in, not having any desire to consider anyone to be I was so embarrassed about my appearance."

Sue's uncertainties over her weight pick up implied she began declining her better half's advances, as well.

Sue Hayes, with spouse, Lee

Sueand Lee are presently back to their energetic best (Photo: Daily Mirror)

"I knew Lee adored me for my identity," she said. "He had constantly treated me like a princess, whatever my size. In any case, as I got greater, I began to experience the ill effects of a certainty emergency, in spite of the fact that I painted on a grin,

"At whatever point we would get into bed, Lee would dependably put his arm around me suggestively. Though beforehand we had delighted in a typical, sound sexual coexistence, I began to recoil away rather, freezing that he'd feel my moves of fat.

"Lee dependably looked hurt that I would not like to get physically involved with him. He'd ask me each time what wasn't right. I felt unpleasant, however I couldn't confront it. I would constantly simply let him know I was drained. It got so awful, we were just having intercourse once like clockwork.

"I knew Lee felt rejected, however I couldn't force myself to unwind around him when I felt so fat and ugly. It came to the heart of the matter where I wouldn't strip before him, and the more I denied his advances in the room, the more baffled he got to be.

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"Before long, Lee and I were contending over each seemingly insignificant detail, and in spite of the fact that I trusted it was only a stage, the circumstance just exacerbated between us."

At that point one day in September 2012 Lee dropped a sensation while the couple were at home.

"He let me know we expected to talk," Sue said. "He exclaimed that he wasn't upbeat and that he thought we ought to go to marriage directing.

"I had a feeling that I'd been punched in the stomach when he clarified he didn't feel near me any longer, that he thought we were becoming separated.

Sue Hayes

Presently Sue weighs only 12st 10lb - and her marriage is more joyful than any time in recent memory (Photo: Daily Mirror)

"He inquired as to whether I even still adored him. I was crushed that my magnificent spouse could even uncertainty my adoration for him as I was still besotted with him.

"In any case, as we talked, it all of a sudden occurred to me – my marriage was on the stones due to my size. We were going for a considerable length of time at once without sex and Lee was at limit.

"In the event that I didn't get in shape, I could lose my marriage. It was a startling thought."

Sue consented to go to couple's guiding and amid their three sessions they examined their lessening sexual coexistence. It got to be distinctly evident her certainty issues were driving a wedge between them.

She promised there and after that to roll out a perpetual improvement. They went to three sessions, where they talked about their decreasing sexual coexistence.

"I cherished Lee a great deal an excessive amount to release him," she said. "I guaranteed him I would settle our marriage, yet as a matter of first importance, I knew I needed to settle myself.

"I cut back on my gorging and figured out how to lose a stone without anyone else's input, however I felt I required more help, so in the end I joined a Slimming World gathering in York in September 2015.

"Swapping my takeaways for new, custom made suppers like vegetable curries and sound meal meals while eliminating the gigantic bars of chocolate, I found the arrangement shockingly simple to stick to. I was excited when I lost another stone in my first month on the arrangement.

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"As the pounds fell away, I felt increasingly propelled to succeed. All things considered, I wasn't simply doing it for me, I was doing it to spare my marriage. To me, that was justified regardless of the world."

As Sue shed pounds and got to be distinctly trimmer, she began feeling more joyful in her own particular skin. Her recently discovered

certainty implied she began starting sex with Lee once more.

By February 2016, she hit her weight reduction target and at 5ft 5ins she now measures a more advantageous 12st 10lbs. She included: "I'm currently six stone lighter and a smooth size 12. Getting more fit gave me a radical new rent of life. I expelled all my wellbeing objections and I can now wear precisely what I need, which is mind boggling.

"Lee showers me with compliments and as I shed pounds my certainty took off, both all through the room. Best of all, my sexual coexistence with Lee is fabulous. I adore parading my new figure in provocative minimal dark dresses on our date evenings."

On Valentine's Day last February, Lee proposed again by composing the words "Will You Remarry Me?" in flower petals on the bed.

"I practically cried with satisfaction," Sue concedes. "It was an enchanted minute and a beyond any doubt sign that everything would have been okay between us.

"I can't trust I practically lost my better half in view of my weight issues. We now plan to recharge our wedding promises on our 25th wedding commemoration in February 2020."

Since her weight reduction, Sue has likewise turned into a Slimming World expert. "Getting more fit is the best thing I've ever done," she grins. "It spared my sexual coexistence and my marriage."

FAT FILE

Tallness: 5ft 5in

BEFORE: Size 24 18st 10lbs

Presently: Size 12 12st 10lb

SUE'S DIET BEFORE

Breakfast: Four buttered crumpets or four cuts of toast with seared bacon, fried eggs

also, beans.

Lunch: Ham and cheddar sandwiches, crisps and a chocolate bar.

Jug of coke.

Supper: Burger, chips and beans with several cuts of bread and margarine. Takeaways.

Snacks: Multipack of crisps took after by a family-sized bar of chocolate.

SUE'S DIET NOW

Breakfast: Weetabix with skimmed drain, cut banana and strawberries.

Lunch: Salad or custom made soup.

Supper: Slimming World-accommodating curries, Chinese dishes or meal meals.

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