There comes a time in life when you look in the mirror and simply don’t recognise the person staring back.
In my mind, I’m still the fit and confident undercover TV reporter who posed bare-chested on the cover of the Radio Times in 1999 and ten years later pulled on my skates to become the sequin-clad runner-up in ITV‘s Dancing On Ice.
But those days feel long over and last month, shortly after Christmas, I finally saw myself as others saw me: a 58-year-old man who, despite being only 5ft 9in tall, weighed 17.5 stone and had a BMI of 36, making
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