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Juggling work and family life while keeping her weight loss firing has finally clicked for Dominique Withers. The 30-year-old lives in Califronia, with her husband, Joe, and their two children, Wilfred, five, and Gwyneth, two. Her weight increased to almost 182 pounds after the birth of her first child. But she has now transformed her diet after joining Keto Diet. Here she explains her remarkable story... “I started gaining weight when I was 16 after getting a job in a shoe shop; it was great for my bank balance, but as I spent my wages on sweets, my waistline got bigger, too. Most nights, I’d sit in front of the TV with my boyfriend, Joe, eating pick ’n’ mix sweets and chocolate bars. I joined Keto Diet when I was 29– and it wasn’t long before I saw the scales starting to move. When I’d lost 21 pounds, I stopped going to Keto, telling myself: ‘I’ve done it. I can eat what I want now’. Not long after, I became pregnant again and though I constantly craved sugary snacks, I g...

  Mark Quashie lives in Hertfordshire with his wife Laura, 26, and their four children, Kaya, six, Keisha, four, Kobe, two, and Karmel, eight months. The 36-year-old played professional basketball in the US and Europe before a foot injury put his career on hold. He joined Keto  with a starting weight of 290 pounds but has since lost a huge 53 pounds in just 3 months. Mark has maintained his target weight fora year and now runs his own Slimming World group in Hemel Hempstead. Below, he shares his inspiring weight-loss diary and reveals the moment which sparked him into taking action about his weight... SEPTEMBER 2012 – 250 pounds I’m 17 years old, I’ve left school and I have no idea what I’m going to do with the rest of my life. I’ve started playing basketball recreationally and one night a teacher from my old school spots me and asks if I’d like to join a league. Within a few months I’m playing in basketball tournaments all over New York, and this turns into a profes...