Woman's Own

We wanted to be FAB at 50

‘I feel 10 years younger’

Julia Heneker, 49, lives in Taunton in Somerset and has two children, Jay, 23, and Alana, 21.

Sipping a cup of tea and nibbling on a slice of lemon drizzle cake I’d baked hours earlier, I chatted away to my friend about our well-rehearsed topic of conversation – losing weight. ‘I just don’t want to turn 50 and be fat,’ I groaned, acknowledging the irony as I licked the icing off my lips.

It was January 2018 and I was fed up with how I felt about

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