How Sarah Lost 4 Stone WITHOUT Dieting | Slimpod Mindset Weight Loss Success Story

So I have got the most amazingly inspiring lady with me today, and I just needed her to share her story with you because she has been in our community, our SlimPod Community, now for 6 months, and in that amount of time she's lost 4 stone and She's such an inspiration in our group, and I just thought it would be a lovely thing if she came and told her story. So I'm not going to chat anymore, and I'm going to hand you over to Sarah. Hi, Sarah. So you, you were telling me when we spoke that you had your— about your relationship with food before you joined. What, I mean, tell me a bit more about that.

I suppose definitely since the kids, it was a feast or a famine. It's, I'm an all-or-nothing kind of gal, so what it would be with that, it was, I'm committed, I'm doing this, but it would be to extremes. So I went from, and I was actually looking at memories on Facebook, as much as they can be, they can make you upset if it's something sad, but it can also make you realize that, oh my God, there's a yo-yo, there's a calendar to to how things go good and bad for me as to, oh my God, I'm 18 stone in that picture. Oh my God, that time the following year I was 11, then I was back up to 50 and I can see it and it's nearly like one of those calendars you get done from Pixie Photo, one of those things that they have, you put in all the different pictures and you're like, who's that? I don't recognize. Oh God, that's me. But I found that I'd always find the fix, the quick fix, or the new thing, you know. Right, let's go. I'm going to go meal replacement. This is going to be the best thing ever. This— I'm going to go keto. I'm going to go— so I basically went through a dictionary of different options. Now, they worked, and they made people go, oh God, you're up to shifting so much weight, isn't that brilliant? I bet you feel fabulous. And you're thinking, I can't even carry stuff up the stairs, and I need a kip. You know, you're worn out. You're, uh, but because you were relying on 800 calories or whatever, or else as well, the flip side on that would be was that because I would know, well, that worked and I got down to this size or this scale, this weight on the scales, then what would happen would be that I then so fall so far off doing what I was following to such extreme that my logic would be, sure, on Monday I'll kick back in, I'll start on the shakes or I'll start on this, or I'm going to cut out this and cut out that. So there was always a plan. I'm the best planner, but the actual initiation just didn't. Now it would, and like, it is strange because I can also see, I can see a pattern in a good year followed by a really bad year, and then I pull it back. So there is, and I think that SlimPod has sort of made me aware of why am I doing that? Why is it? No, I'm on a mission and I'm great on a mission. I'm very good at my job and I'm not showing off by saying that. I'm proud of what I do. I'm good at what I do, but what I found was that that wasn't translating to family life or to how I ate or how I looked after myself because I was always doing great work for other people but not myself.

Sure.

You know, and that's definitely where eating—

Yeah, so sum up your relationship with food in a nutshell.

Extreme. Ah, the one way or the other. Yeah, it was— it's everything or nothing. And now to be able to be in the middle, to me, is huge. It really is. It's phenomenal for me because it's actually reassuring that I'm me, as opposed to I'm fat Sarah, I'm skinny tired Sarah. I'm like, I'm, I'm good Sarah. Yeah, I know, I know, I'm happy in my skin, you know. So extreme, I think, will be the word.

Lovely. And when you were, when you were doing the, the whole extreme stuff, how did you, what kind of difference did you notice when you were on the Slim, when you started the Slim Pod? You must have actually joined it thinking, right, this isn't extreme, this is a whole different ball game. What was in your head when you were thinking that way?

I thought, well, 10 days, what have I to lose? And at that stage, with the first stage of sort of definitely the first part of this year was sort of a car crash, let alone COVID and everything else, but it was just extreme pressures on lots of different things hitting. So that meant that I inhaled food. I didn't even enjoy it. I inhaled it. So I thought, I'm going to give this a shot. There was these nurses and they kept popping up in my newsfeed. And I said, well, if it's nurses, then it's not, it's not a fad. And I was great for fads, you know, and I thought, right, look, I've nothing to lose with this. But what I found really interesting was nearly within the second night of it, I went, okay, this feels a bit weird, you know, this feels like this can't be working. I'm only listening to a man when I go to sleep, you know, that way. I was like, that can't be, there isn't logic to this now, it can't be. But I found I probably, because I'd be flicking switches on and off with those extremes for so many years, I sort of thought, if I just— is it just the right day? 7th of July, let's do this, you know. And I went, I think probably because I said, 7th of July, I don't want to continue the way I'm going, I'm going to give this a shot, as opposed to trying to prove it wrong. I think I was kind of in the right— I was in the right mindset to say, I'm going to give this a shot, I've nothing to lose, it's only listening on my phone, I don't have to empty my fridge I don't have to tell people. I didn't have to do that. I just went, just try it low-key, see what happens.

Explain the first little bit of your experience, because, you know, as you said, you were an extreme. It must have been a really difficult one to, to just, I mean, it must have come as a complete surprise when you found yourself just wanting to eat healthy food.

Yeah, and I think I, I've been diagnosed as a celiac. I had a number of medical conditions, so I I have ulcerative colitis, which means that it is a condition that food affects it. Food is it, you know what I mean? It's how you digest. So if you're going to do— if you're going to choose bad food, you're really going to— and trust me, if I'm bad, then I'm bad. There's no nice— you can't wing it, you know? And there has been 27 trips to the toilet while I'm in work, and, you know, there has been that side of it. So to me, I thought, I'm going to chance this. You know, what have I to lose, you know? And, um, but what I found was that, um, really those first couple of days I thought, right, I'm going to listen to this pod, I'm going to listen to this 9 minutes, I'm going to go to sleep, you know. But what I found was the first couple of days I was like, well, first of all, I slept, you know. I didn't get to the end of the 9 minutes, and I went, well, that's good going. Now there has been days that I've been— whether I've been up to giddy with different things that are going on— that I've got a playlist, so I play stuff on a loop so I may turn in the bed and go, 'Ah, it's only Trevor,' and go back to sleep. But what I found was that I was sort of— I was conscious that I was conscious of food, but I wasn't overthinking, I wasn't already planning, or I wasn't calorie counting, or I wasn't going, 'Oh God, I better not have that to have that,' because I was diagnosed as celiac and I've been trying to find every variation of 'Oh, well, I'll still have bread,' or else, 'Oh, that had gluten in it, I feel crap, I'll eat more crap.' And that was the way it worked. And then it would escalate. Whereas then what I thought was, 'Right, okay, this— I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to give this a shot. I've nothing to lose.' And the flip side of it is, 'Okay, I am going to do what I've been told to do.' You know, put the two things together and you've got a winning combination. Because I knew— and it wasn't that, 'Oh, I'm on Slim Pop, I'm cutting out this, this, this.' It was like, even to my kids, I went, 'I can't eat that, it makes me sick.' you know, I can't eat that, I won't be well. And it wasn't, oh God, does she— ah, God love her, you know, you get the tilty head, are you on a diet? Oh dear, you know, it wasn't like that. It was, okay, I'm in control of this, you know. And that visualization and just remembering that whole, you know what I mean, choose better, choose better was nearly more important to me than the eat less and move more at the very beginning was, okay, you're doing this, what's the point in doing something and listening to it if you're not going to at least try and meet it halfway by actually consciously being aware of the fact that, okay, I can eat that if I want to, but do I really want to? You know, and that was really where I found the first— definitely in the first week, I remember coming into work and I was sort of nearly bewildered with myself, sort of thinking, oh, I haven't brought that, and I'm not jumping into the garage to grab something as well because I'm on the go. And I found that that made a huge difference. You know, that I was planning because I was aware that I was going to be working late, but I wasn't then not eating for huge periods of time and then binge eating, trying to catch up because, oh God, I've only had that today, you know. And that's really where I found something clicked at the beginning. And I could see that with the Club. Some people would say, I'm not getting this, you know, and the wins for me at the very beginning weren't these marvellous 'I can get into this' size. It wasn't that, it was 'I'm looking for a win today.' That was my first win. Whenever I had to pick my 3 wins, my first win was, okay, you're looking for something positive, that's a win, you know. And over time then my wins were easier to find because it's like, it's like the parenting course, it's about not trying to catch your child out being bold but trying to catch them out being good. You know, and I remember doing that with the course and I was like, yeah, I should really do that, but I think that if we don't do it for ourselves then, you know, and what I found was that's something good that happened today, remember that, as opposed to the 3 other things that may have gone completely arseways, you know, that way in between, so that will be my main thing with it was the wins and just consciously giving it a shot as opposed to fighting it Fantastic.

And so you were also automatically changing your decision-making?

Yeah, I think so. I think it was just, okay, let's do this. It was that proactive piece. Do I really want to go back? And I had seen a number of stone come on from January to the end of June, and it had just— it was constant. It's like people go, you don't put on weight overnight. You don't, but it can creep. And those 2 or 3 pounds that if you were weighing in you could, if you were weighing in, you could sort of say, 'It's only 2 pounds I've lost, it's only that.' If you were then going to be putting that on every single week, then when you get 6 months into a year, you feel it. You feel it in your clothes, you also feel it in your mood, you feel it in everything. And then it's got to a point that you go, 'Oh, this is going— I'm already this heavy, I might as well just have X, Y, and Z,' you know. And what I did was I made a decision that the X, Y, and Z options in my house were going to be good options. They were going to be healthier options for me. Now there's still a cupboard full of rubbish for the kids if they want it, but I've actually— I have no interest in it. And over time, it's even with Christmas and having an early Christmas at the weekend because my, my children were down, and there's still all that stuff there, and I'm immune. I just sort of went, okay. Now I'm not saying SlimPod makes you immune, but it makes you aware that if you want something nice, have something nice, but that you don't have have all of it, you know. And also you don't have to apologize for it either. That's, that's the thing, is that I'm not saying, 'Oh, sorry, I'm going— I'm going to run further today, so I need to make sure I fuel my body and I eat enough,' as opposed to, 'Oh, I might go out tomorrow and I might do this, I might do that, so it's nearly like I'm going to carb load for the world on behalf of everybody,' you know, and then go run.

So we're— so you started this in June 2020 and we're now in December 2020.

Yeah.

Um, how much fat has left your body in that amount of time?

Well, do you know what, I thought this morning, because I knew I was coming on to you this morning, and I said, I haven't weighed myself, you know. Now I did, I've done the 12 Weeks of Gold And then I weighed myself and I weighed myself 2 weeks after that. And then I've done the 12 weeks now of extra. So sort of, I started the 7th of July, so I'm week, I think I'm week 24. Yeah, week 24, week 25. But what I did was after the last time I weighed, so that was 4 months in. Yes, just about 3, 4 months in and I was down over 4 stone. Now, but, but what's interesting is this morning when I got up and I said, I have to go on to Sandra today, maybe I should weigh myself to, to say, and Sarah's last thing. But I actually, first of all, I couldn't find the weighing scales. Now that is in itself is, is phenomenal to me when this would be somebody who would be hopping, going to the loo and hopping back on again, or first thing in the morning, no, better way, first thing in the morning before I drink pint of water, you know. So that to me was the way. But what I did was I, I go by the scales— say, I go by the measuring tape. Don't go by the scales. I find that, and particularly maybe because I am much more active now as well and I'm running an awful lot, I mean, do I really want to get disheartened if my muscle and my tone— my inches are huge. Like, I've lost a huge amount of inches. I've lost, um, 24, 24.5 centimeters off my waist. Now it didn't work that— I meant to work that into inches before I— but I was busy this morning, so I didn't. But that's, that's kind of— so you are looking— it was 102.5 centimeters. So like, my logic is, well, my waist was bigger than the meter stick in school. So like, I instantly visualized that. And now, yeah, and now it's 79 centimeters. So I think— I don't know, I don't want to jinx myself, but I think that might be a 32 or 33-inch waist. Now that's, that's phenomenal. You know, and that's with being active. That's not with— like, I don't do— and I know some people do follow different programs and intermittent fasting and different things like that. I don't, I don't. I eat when I need to eat, you know. I, I always drink my water and stuff anyway. I've always been very good on that. Even my sister was saying the other day, oh, I wish I was like you for water. Water has always been good, but, uh, food is— it's a fuel. I need it, but I'm not relentlessly focusing on why I need it. Oh, I'd love that because it's lovely. Actually, no, I have to eat today. I need to eat because I've got to do that exam. I need to eat because I'm going out on my run. It's not that I have taken— I haven't taken it— SlimPod hasn't taken the joy away. It's made me savour things. I eat slower. Before, I'd inhale, like, and during the first lockdown, I'll be honest with you, I could have inhaled Pringles while working on an assignment and I wouldn't even have been able to tell you what flavour they were. Because I was just, it was just constant. It was, it was the subconscious just paying no attention to it. And my full signal is now here again, whereas it wasn't. And that's what SlimPod gave me back. That's huge to me because that's what I didn't have. I didn't have, I was like, I, I could inhale something and then I go, oh, but I have to make the kids dinner, and then I'd eat that as well, and then I come back and start something else. Or else my, you see, because I was a long-distance runner and I'm a long distance, I was saying the other, but I'm not a proper runner. Runner, but I am a runner. I am, I am a proper runner. But because of that, um, I was, I was fueling for to do long distances, to do marathons. I did a 12-hour, I did a 12-hour event last year. But what I found after that was that my metabolism was even more skewed. So let alone extreme dieting that would have had you on 800 calories, then I was eating through the night because I was running around my loops, then I wasn't sleeping. That, you know, you put all this stuff together and like I'm a metabolism nightmare. But since July, I sleep. Now, there is stressor days, as there is for everybody, but I sleep. I'm looking after myself better, but I'm definitely mentally much, much better, I think, than I've ever been in years. You know, and that to me is, that to me is the, is the winner. I don't care if I'm a size 10, you know, and I like, I remember one of my first wins I was probably about 4 or 5 weeks into SlimPod, was I saw a glimpse of a collarbone, you know, I was like, oh my God, I have a collarbone. So that's where I, you know, it doesn't have to be, it doesn't have to be scales related or even at one stage even fitting into the clothes. That wasn't it. It was okay, I feel okay. I feel better about myself. I'm eating well, I'm looking after myself, and SlimPod works for that and works with that, with ChillPod, with being able to be stressed and be able to play something that's actually going to just go, just breathe, Sarah, just relax for a minute, you know. And the SugarPod as well. I mean, I know that when I initially, with SlimPod, when you'd said about the SugarPod and people reacting to it, I was nearly scared to check it you know, whereas now I— one of my daughters today, she handed me a selection box, she said, 'It's gluten-free, Mum,' and I said, 'Okay,' and I said, 'All right, grand,' and then I looked at the back of one of the labels and I said to her, 'The first thing on it, sugar.' She said, 'Can you not eat sugar?' and I said, 'No, I just don't eat sugar,' and that was it, but there wasn't, 'Oh no, Abba, try it.' She said, 'Well, maybe you might need them if you're on a run,' so there was a split that we were able to still— I wasn't saying, 'I don't want that,' but I wasn't offending her, but also I was still going, I don't eat sugar, you know, and it being able to say that. And as well, it's not— it's— I remember one of your, um, one of your lives was it wasn't about saying I can't, I can't eat sugar, I can't have that cake. It's I don't. And once you're actually there, then people don't tend to come back with, ah, but you're gone, whereas I can't eat that, then they do. 'Ah, but sure you can, it's Christmas, you might as well have them,' whereas the other flip side of it was, 'No, actually, I just, I don't eat bread,' you know, and, 'Oh, can you not eat it?' Now, part of me doesn't want to go into, 'Well, you see, I have this and that,' you know, you don't want to go through the list of what's wrong with you, we'd be there all night, but the other side is that it's given me control on what I eat, but also it's given me control not to feel bad about people offering things. Because before, even in my workload, yeah, okay, I'll do that, even though I knew I was swamped, you know. Okay, I'll eat that. Okay, I'll sit down and eat with you because you want me to eat with you, but I don't want to eat this, you know. So really, that's where I found a huge shift in the 5 months.

Yeah, I mean, the don't thing is just really, really powerful. It really is because it's a self-validation. It's actually you know, you are saying that from your heart. I don't eat this, rather than you feel— if you're saying I can't, you feel denied.

Yeah. And also I feel there's a timeline then. I can't eat it until the 7th when I fit in this, or on the 6th I've got a wedding coming up, I can't have that cake. And I've got— I just don't want that, I don't want it. And I feel sluggish after it, you know. So there's the other flip side as well, that I'm not— do I really want it? And I have to really— that whole count to 5 with Trevor. Do I consciously count to 5 if I decide on something and go, 'Do it'? Yeah, do I need to do that? Now, apart from my fat fingers bit, that bit I still don't get on the video, but on the recording, you know, but on the number 3. But what I find is that that count to 5 gives me the conscious decision to— you still want to have it, you know. So I'm not denied, I'm not denied anything. I eat very well. You know, I eat very well, I'm nourished, I'm probably like— I take supplements, but I'm probably the fittest, and I'm probably the fittest. And like I said to you, that with the current climate and sort of restrictions and the work that I do, if I was unfortunate enough to encounter COVID through the work that I do and the families that I work with, I know now that I'm probably at the fittest and looking after myself the best that I've ever done. And I mean, I was 47 last month, you know, so I mean, I'm not exactly a young one, but I'm still convincing myself I am. But that it does make a difference, and if we don't mind ourselves now, we're of no use to anybody else either, you know. And that's really big to me.

And having the kids, and you know, you worry about life in general anyway, Absolutely. So a lot of your fellow Slimpodders will be looking at this, and some of them might be thinking, well, I've not done so well, I've not lost 4 stone, whatever. And because, you know, different people have different journeys, we have— we're all individuals, and we've all got our own journey with our relationship with food, and some people have had big emotional journeys getting to this point, and, you know, and emotional eating journeys. But if you were to give kind of one bit of advice or pointer to people who are fellow PODDers, what would you, what would you say? They might even be just starting their journey when, when they they see this. What would you say are maybe one or two most important things that you've done or experienced in order to have that 4 stone leave your body?

I suppose first of all it is to believe that you're worth it. It's like that L'Oréal ad or whatever, but if you don't believe that it's worth doing, then it's not the right time. And that was my— I think it was the right time for me. I was looking for something and it hit the right time, but it's It's to believe it. I mean, to me, I will be honest, I was shocked that it did feel like there was a switch that was flipped for me. And that makes it so much easier for me, but not necessarily for a number of people. Like, we've all— there's no way anybody is there who's just got a little bit of an issue or just a little bit overweight. What tends to happen is it's all or nothing. Well, it's all or nothing with me. But what would tend to happen is this hasn't just happened overnight. So unscrambling it, to me, has been huge. And it's been a journey in itself with that. So it's to accept that if it isn't a magic switch, like, or a magic wand that you're going to wave, that you may have to put a bit of work in to get results, but that they do come. And what I find now is that I'm saying, well, if you were going to ask me for pointers, and I go, it's nearly— it's become a habit now. It's me. So this is what I do. I listen to— I listen to my pods, even if I'm dragging my feet up to bed, up to bed, absolutely knackered. I'm going, no, I have to put the phone on charge and I have to put Trevor on and even if I realistically probably get 2 minutes of it and I'm asleep but the thing is that you do it, you do the wins, I mean and they are hard, they are hard and I've had some pretty horrific days even in the couple of months that stuff has gone really badly wrong or I've been under a lot of pressure and to struggle for those wins is that still keep looking and like I said and when we— I'm not sure if it was recorded before we were chatting is that looking for that win is a win, you know. Going on to the SlimPod page going, oh gosh, I can't find anything, life's crap today. But actually going, no, do you know what, you're here and you're looking for that win, you know. You got up, you've got through today, you've survived every other day that's been bad, you know. So to me, to find those wins and to abandon other people's It's like, I think you tend when you start a new diet or whatever else that people know about it then. And like, you know, like I kept, I kept SlimPod quiet myself probably for a number of weeks until I actually thought this is working, you know, or until somebody passed comment to go, oh, the weight's gone from your face, have you lost weight? And I go, oh yeah, I'm not sure, but I, yeah, I have. But you know, you weren't going to go then and try and jump on the scales, which is the automatic what I would have done. And I said, oh yeah, clothes are a bit loose. And that was it. So it's trying to find a different level of win and a distraction. You need a distraction. That's definitely what I have. My distraction is the move more, get out and walk, get out and run, go and do something. If it is that 7 o'clock in the evening after you've done all your work and done everything, that's when you start picking, that's when the pick turns to I've already done that, so everything starts escalating, then take up a habit. One of my friends took up knitting. Eating. So, well, I can't eat if I'm holding both, if I'm using both hands at the same time. So people take on different things. To me, being active has definitely made a huge, huge difference, and that, that whole piece about moving more. But also as well, take it that whatever the scales say, if you're feeling happier in your own skin, it will make it easier to— it makes it easier to say no to stuff that makes you unhappy in in. Like, I've got much stronger by, in saying, can't do that, sorry, out of my control, you know. And I'm not overwhelmed with trying to fix everybody all the time. My number one priority at the moment is me, because when I'm good, then everybody else that I'm involved with will be better for that. And that's where, if you're going to do anything with SlimPod, is we need to be that little bit selfish, because if we don't put ourselves first, then writing those wins and following through is when people say it's not working. And I went, yeah, but what's not working? It may be it's not, maybe it's not Slim Pot. Like, COVID has definitely escalated mental health issues in everybody, and there's no way around it. I know mentally at the beginning of this year it wasn't good. I know that since I'm now mindful and I'm consciously listening to Trevor, or I'm consciously driving in the car going to a meeting or going to meet with somebody that I'm anxious about, then I play the ChillPod. I actually go, okay, just take a few minutes, whereas before it wouldn't have been. I'd have had the radio blasting, I'd be already 3 meetings ahead of myself. But SlimPods made me slow down on that to make the rest of the stuff good.

Yeah, amazing. And just one last thing, you said you were a runner, were you running with that 4 stone around you?

Oh yeah, you see I'm stubborn, yeah, I'm also a stubborn runner. I'll never be— I start off like Mo Farah and finish like Mo Slater, it's never too pretty, it's never too pretty, but what would have happened was last year I would have had a very good running year, like I completed a number of marathons and I did it, I did that 12-hour, I sort of, I pushed myself and when I got to the end of the year, the wheels fell off. Now I was still eating, but my eating was gone sketchy again and when my eating's not right, it's only a matter of time before the colitis and the other conditions kick back in. So it was a matter of running on empty. But what happened was between sort of January and the June, I would have put on, I would have put on the weight that I've now all lost. I would have put back on all of that weight. And I would have been like, on the 7th of July, I was 17 stone and a pound, you know. And the last time I weighed in, I was at 13 stone even. But the thing as well though is that people go, 'Oh, stone.' And I go, 'But we don't walk into a shop and go, can I have a 13 stone jumper?' You know, and that's the thing that I really— I, when I explain anything, 'Why aren't you weighing? Would you not like to know?' And I went, No, because I know that I have a size 14 leather skirt on, say, and I was able to zip it up the back. So I don't care whether that means I stood on the scales and it says 13.4 or whether I stood on the scales and it said 12. I, I, that doesn't matter to me now. And that's, that to me is huge, you know, it really, it really is. Sorry, gone off on a tangent, but the running thing comes back to, I was still running. Now it was it was hard going. I'm all— but because I was stubborn, it was my mental escape.

Yeah.

So I was running, but, um, I was— I, and like, I was back doing sort of 3 miles every day. That was the plan when I started back. But my 3 miles were probably about 40 minutes, 38 minutes. On, um, on Sunday I went— today's Tuesday, my days are a bit wonky this week. Um, on Sunday I went up to the running track and said, I'm going to try a fast mile. I'm going to give it a bit of welly and see, see how we go, just check the old buddy. Um, but I managed to get my fastest mile, 8:59. Now, to fast runners, that's— that's— to me, that's 4 minutes faster a mile than I was able to run when I started back at SlimPod. But also as well, I, I did my fast— I did a fast mile, and then I said, I'll just do another 3 just to recover. But the actual 3 that I did to recover, the fastest mile was in those 3. So it just proves that it's your mindset. It just, you see, I'll continue. I'm like the Duracell Bunny. I'll just continue. I'll just keep going and going. So I may never be the fastest, but for me to do that 3-mile on Sunday and under 29 minutes when in, at the end of June was 39 minutes, you know, that's the difference of the weight gone. Even my sister had said, she said, you flew by me the other day in the town. I had my headphones on. I was actually listening to Trevor. I was booting it and I was like, yeah, this is deadly, you know, because I was, I was, I was focused on what I was doing, you know. And I think that once you stay focused with SlimPod and you know it's going to work because it does, you know, you wouldn't exist if it didn't, you know, the NHS wouldn't be involved with you. The thing is that I think the credibility that you bring to it and the fact that this isn't potions, you're not also going, SlimPod have brought out a range of vitamins and about, you know, this kind of, because that's that's when I go, oh no, you know, once that range— and even with the extra pods and stuff, and even the Christmas one that you'd sent out, like, that's brilliant. That to me, like, I had Christmas dinner on Saturday, you know, and yesterday I had some salad and some turkey before I did my exam online, and there was no worry about, well, actually there's 6 containers of Rose's Quality Street or whatever else, and I went, nah, No, get this work done, concentrate, you know, and mind yourself, because if we mind ourselves, then we're good.

Fantastic. My throat can work then. So anyway, look, I've kept you long enough, so thank you so much. Honestly, it's been— I've just loved hearing you.

And I was being very good. It was like when I was chatting to my friend who's actually in SlimPod and it's gonna be like Davina, do not swear, you are live, do not swear, because I know in my posts every now and again you get the odd feckin' in there.

You in the group, everybody loves you, Sarah, and you bring some humor and it's been much needed.

I think it's been a rough year, people need to laugh.

I just had to get you on camera, really. And talk to you because I know that everybody will be expecting me to do that. Lovely.

They said you take care, lovely to talk to you.

Yeah, no, thank you very much.