Did anyone watch that program last night, they had this lady who inspects people’s poo come and visit three brides in the run up to their weddings, in and effort to try and help them lose some weight so they could walk down the aisle without being conscientious of how fat they were. What an insight! These 3 ladies were eating themselves into an early grave, quite how they managed to find grooms I don’t know!

One was eating takeaway food for dinner every evening, kebabs, curries, fish and chips, pizza’s - you name it, anything that had no nutritional value!

The scottish lady was stuffing digestive biscuits down her neck - not too bad really, though one shouldn’t have too many - except she was spreading butter all over them!

The Welsh lady wasn’t eating too badly by all accounts, but she was drinking like a fish! 3 bottles of wine a night every weekend or something like that. I’m no saint but even I draw the line at 2 bottles of wine!

These 3 ladies were clinically obese and had to lose 15 stone between them to get back to a healthy weight - they’d have to lose the equivalent of me, between 3, to get to a healthy weight. An average of 5 stone overweight each!

As an independent mortgage adviser, it got me thinking about life insurance, something I arrange a lot of funnily enough. It got me thinking about a new angle to market my business - people that have recently lost a lot of weight. Chances are, if they were obese when they took out their life insurance, they would have been rated. A rating is applied when an applicant strays from fitting into the healthy box, for example from previous medical history, smoking or being overweight. In some cases this can be up to 100% extra on the premium, so anyone who has recently lost a lot of weight, could benefit from reviewing their life insurance policies.