Sitting in the park with her grandchildren one afternoon, Becky Tucker decided to overhaul her life.
As the four of them played and ran around, Becky, then 48, simply lacked the energy to join in. It was, she says now, a wake-up call.
The risk management consultant from Poole, Dorset, had been struggling with fatigue, anxiety, mood swings and hot flushes as perimenopause took hold.
And for as long as she could remember, she had experienced intense, debilitating migraines for a week every month, linked to her menstrual cycle.
She was also significantly overweight – something she had struggled with her whole life. At
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