When it came to cooking up romantic dinners for one another, Sandra and Michael Menarry always had meat on the menu.

But tucking into their favourite chicken curries, sausages, bacon sarnies and beefburgers meant the couple, who have been together for seven years, ballooned.

Sandra says: “When you gain weight together you don’t really notice it as much. Your favourite jeans stretch with you, so they don’t always match the number that’s printed on the label.

“Eventually you look at yourselves and go, ‘Oops how did that happen?'"

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