How I lost 27 kilos in 4 months by cutting out sugar and taking up ballet

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Hello, my name is Ateh Jewel and I’m a sugar addict. I lost 27kg in four months and I still have a way to go with my weight loss journey but I will forever be a sugar addict.

16th August 2016 will always be ironically, a bittersweet day for me. It’s the day I was told by my GP that my shakes, sweats, vomiting and stomach cramps weren't from stress caused by being a hard working beauty journalist, blogger, director of my own digital agency, producer and mum to twin daughters but from type two diabetes. Yup, I had scored an own goal against my own body and I was in shock. But on reflection, I don’t know why I was in shock to be honest. I had doubled in size since I was nineteen, I was a sugar addict,...

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