14 h. ago 'I paid on my credit card to keep my unhealthy secret from my wife'

Mark Fettes, 44, said his life has now been transformed after he gave up his unhealthy habits

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3 d. ago After 50 years I have finally given up smoking... and it's transformed my life in the most surprising way: ALEXANDRA SHULMAN

It's only in the past few months that I have regained an acute sense of smell. And the world is suddenly a very different and at times a rather overwhelming place.

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3 d. ago Woman loses 4st 4lb in just a few months without giving up ice cream

Brianna Alexander, 35, said she had been 'stress eating a lot' before making one simple change that transformed her life and relationship with food

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3 d. ago Brotherless Night by VV Ganeshananthan audiobook review – love and conflict in Sri Lanka

The civil war transforms a young trainee doctor’s life as she copes with her feelings for a Tamil Tiger in last year’s Women’s prizewinning novelBrotherless Night opens with 16-year-old Sashi Kulenthiren, who hopes to be a doctor like her eldest brother, making tea when the kettle slips out of her hand, causing her to pour boiling water on herself. When a neighbour, K, hears her screams, he rushes over to help, cracking raw eggs over the scalds to soothe the pain. “So I began as K’s patient though he ended as mine,” Sashi reflects.Set in 1980s Sri Lanka, VV Ganeshananthan’s coming-of-age novel – which won the 2024 Women’s prize for fiction – is an epic and hard-hitting tale of family and survival as it documents life during the civil war between Tamil separatists and the Sinhalese majority that lasted three decades. Before fighting breaks out, Sashi’s most pressing problem is whether she will pass her exams at school. But soon violence and kidnapping become the norm, communities are...

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7 d. ago I hid from the world when cancer changed my body until dancing transformed my life

Despite radiotherapy, appointments, exhaustion and pain, Rachael Anderson never missed a training session

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7 d. ago I was enjoying a midnight swim. Then my girlfriend kissed me – and the nightmare began

Seventeen years ago Nathan Dunne was locked out of his body, or at least that’s how it felt. He talks about his battle with depersonalisation disorder – and his sudden fear of waterOn a cold winter’s night, in a “fit of spontaneity”, Nathan Dunne and his girlfriend went for a midnight swim on Hampstead Heath in London. They had been living together for a few months and, although it was dark and chilly, they “had a summer feeling in that first flush of the relationship”, Dunne says. They shed their clothes and waded into the shallows. After diving into the icy water, Dunne’s girlfriend put her lips to his cheek, and as they pulled apart, his life changed beyond all recognition. “It was like being struck. Like something came down,” he says, slicing the air with his hand. “The flip of a switch.”Dunne’s transformation sounds like a fairytale in reverse: one kiss, and his life turned into a nightmare. Seventeen years have passed since that night, and he still mostly explains the change i...

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1 week ago Daughter of alleged terrorist says 'America changed me' as family face deportation

Habiba Soliman penned a glowing essay about how her life was transformed when she moved to the US from Kuwait with her family two years ago - but then her father allegedly launched a deadly anti-Semitic terror attack

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2 w. ago ‘I’ve gotten my life back’: London, Ont., neurosurgeon transforming the way Ontarians deal with back pain

‘I’ve gotten my life back’: London, Ont., neurosurgeon transforming the way Ontarians deal with back pain  CTV News

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2 w. ago 'I was left devastated when I found out what my unexplainable pain actually was'

After experiencing unexplained abdominal pain for months, Emma received a shocking diagnosis aged 39 during a visit to A&E - something she says resulted in her life taking an 'unexpected and transformative turn'

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2 w. ago 'My Quasimodo boobs were so big I couldn't eat – now my life is transformed'

One woman said her life was completely changed after she reduced her breasts by almost five cup sizes – as before she struggled to work, walk and even eat a normal meal

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3 w. ago Disney Channel fans stunned by star's shock transformation as he hits major life milestone

Tenzing Norgay Trainor, now 23, starred in the show at only 12 years old, but now, flash forward a decade later and he's all grown up.

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4 w. ago Wembley turns a shade of Selhurst after a victory for Palace’s Concrete Catalonia | Barney Ronay

Sound the tram bells, unleash the smoke plumes from the Tasty Jerk shack – Crystal Palace have finally won a major trophyAs the final whistle was blown at Wembley there was a moment that seemed to stretch out and become frozen in time. The Crystal Palace players collapsed where they were standing, crumpled across the grass like a battle scene fresco. The colours made it beautiful, red and blue against the deep green, new optics, new names, the unstyled celebrations of players unused to these moments, Jean-Philippe Mateta face down, Will Hughes flat on his back, arms spread like a snow angel.There was rush of noise as the clock began to tick again. And that was that. Sound the tram bells, unleash the smoke plumes from the Tasty Jerk shack – 119 years into Crystal Palace’s existence this mercurial club with the clanky corrugated stadium has finally won a major trophy. Continue reading...

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