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Not a very polite observance but she is not exactly trying to hide her failure to keep off all that weight she dramatically lost last year. She was not only paid to undergo all that lipo and tummy tucking but the procedures were also paid for!

If you had the opportunity to be the subject of such life-changing stuff wouldn’t you jump at it…? but wouldn’t you also make every effort to keep it off…?

Kerry would have been better off with something simple and less expensive than surgery - like Solo Slim - and staying off the booze would go a long way to keeping off the weight. But we all know that Kerry would find that impossible…

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Isn’t it interesting that more and more of Gordon Brown’s earlier bad decisions are now coming back to haunt him? Unfortunately, in the case of some of them it’s been so long since taking them that the effects are often shouldered onto someone else.

Perhaps the very worst of these was the decision to tax income within pension schemes. That particular provision wasn’t even announced in the budget itself but tacked on as a seemingly minor point in the budget notes that came out the following day. Removing the taxfree status of pensions is estimated to have cost us all around £100 BILLION and all down to what was put over as a minor tax change.

Clearly something had to give with that £100 billion charge and what it is turning out to be is, as predicted in 1997, are the final salary schemes which needed that £100 billion to keep them running. Consequently, many of us will finish our retirement destitute when we should have been relatively well off.

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Well, we have decided that a great majority of the weightloss formulas on the over-the-counter market are a complete and utter waste of time and money. Over recent months we have done our own research as we both had a few pounds to lose and decided to try out some of those you see on the counter everytime you go shopping. You will be surprised…

Alli – rubbish (one months supply experience); Appesat - ditto; BioSynergy Body Perfect – ditto; Adios/Adios Max - don’t even bother. We found the only diet pill that actually had any effect was a simple formula called ‘Bladderwrack’ and you can get 90 pills for just over £3.50 in  Tesco. It has a green label and is Tesco’s own brand - pure bladderwrack (a form of kelp) and nothing else. My partner lost an average of 3 pounds a week on it.

Give it a go!

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