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Slimming World members in Galway are celebrating their fabulous weight losses by donating the clothes they have successfully slimmed out of to the Irish Cancer Society. The members, who have lost over 1,200 stone between them since January, have so far donated nearly 500 bags to raise vitally needed funds for the cancer charity.

What foods turn off your metabolism? Yvonne Duffy O’Shaughnessy, The Health and Nutrition Coach, offers blood analysis to help you find out what foods are slowing down your metabolism. Do you find it impossible to lose weight and keep it off despite your best efforts to diet? Does everyone around you seem to eat more than you - and yet somehow end up slimmer? Do most of your excess pounds sit around your tummy? Do you feel tired for much of the time, irritable and unable to focus?

What foods turn off your metabolism? The Health and Nutrition Coach offers blood analysis to help you find out.

Daniel was just 15 when he embarked on his life-changing journey. It was not going to be an easy one as he had tried and failed several times. However, at almost 29st, he needed to try once more. He was not able to enjoy life the way a teenager should.

There is no secret potion, shake, or pill that will help you lose weight faster than boosting your metabolism. But do you know what foods speed up your metabolism and what foods slow it down? Knowing what foods boost or slow your metabolism is now proving through medical research to be the most successful way to lose weight.

When it comes to weight loss, “how to lose weight” is one of the most searched phrases on Google search. So many overweight people have become totally disillusioned after years of attending weight loss programmes, they wonder if there may be some elusive solution that they have not yet found.

There are so many bloggers nowadays, there has never been as much information available about the topics which interest us. And the majority of people are concerned with healthy eating. And as a nation, we certainly need to be, as we are heavier than ever. Scary recent figures indicate that 85 per cent of Irish women will be overweight and 57 per cent obese by 2030 while around 89 percent of Irish men will be classified as overweight, with some 48 per cent obese.

The long list of health problems associated with being overweight has been well-chronicled in recent years in the same way the many benefits of healthy weight loss have been highlighted.

Many ‘stars’ manage to transform their bodies seemingly overnight. Overweight celebrities having been lambasted in the popular entertainment magazines to go from size 16 to size six.

Dr Eva Orsmond is a leading expert in her field and remains Ireland’s sole private medical practitioner exclusively treating overweight and obesity in adults and children.