Victoria Blackwell recently turned 41 and decided to give herself an unusual birthday present. This successful business woman and single mom vowed to shed a significant amount of her 120kg body weight after two decades of unsuccessful crash diets and weight-loss quick fixes. She’s trying a holistic approach that includes radical diet and exercise intervention with a personal trainer, as well consulting a clinical psychologist and an endocrinologist, to hear some hard-hitting truths. Carte Blanche Medical brought its viewers the first in a series of stories that will document her return to form and find out what it really takes to achieve sustainable weight loss.

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