00:00so you got diagnosed a year ago yeah well basically a couple of years ago
00:04somebody actually said on Instagram I love Instagram because I learned so much
00:07they went you've got a typical lipoedema body I thought I was gonna say did you
00:12even know what that term was no didn't didn't have a clue I always knew that
00:15there was something wasn't right with my body but yeah I didn't know what
00:19lipoedema was at all and then I just decided so I had it a couple of days ago
00:24because there's been so many articles about my body about like losing five
00:29stone losing six stones I mean I wish I'd lost that much weight but I haven't
00:33but so I thought it's very honest I've I got diagnosed about a year ago and I have
00:40just been into surgery well September okay can you explain then to anybody that
00:45doesn't know what is lipoedema well all I've been to see all I can tell you is
00:49what I've been told all right so and I've been to see a lot of experts I've been
00:53to Berlin to see experts I've been to three experts in London and they said
00:57well basically is where your body does it like holds on to fat differently than
01:00a normal body would and I said to them I train I'm you know I don't overeat I
01:05don't feel like I could do I'm fit and healthy and they said you could train
01:09seven days a week you don't get rid of lipoedema fat like that it's like it's
01:13like congealed sort of fat okay no I might get that wrong but that is what I've
01:16been told so and typically it's it's not kind of symmetrical in your body is it
01:22essentially so I've got like this small waist and it's teeny tiny way oh thank
01:27you very much cut but yeah I got this a small waist there's like my legs don't
01:30really belong to my body it's like um they belong on another body so you get
01:35like these big legs and then and then as I'm getting older obviously is getting
01:38worse because it gets worse as you get older and then I can see it all in my
01:42arms now as well and you cut like I weight train I lift weights and yeah I see it
01:47all in my arms and it's just getting worse so I can train and train and train
01:52but really I'm going down the surgery route now
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