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Over the years I have not had the mobility to be active and I required Hip Reconstruction Surgery 18 months ago.  The recovery has been slow and albeit I am not fully fit, with the help of my local Slimming World Group I have been able to shed the far too many excess lbs I had.  Having lost 2 stone 2lbs up to now I wanted 2012 to be the year of personal challenges.

With this, myself and so far 15 other members of the Driffield Slimming World family are undertaking a sponsored 5km in aid of Help for Heros.

Having grown up in the military I have seen many of my family members serve their country, including my father, my brothers, my husband and more recently my nephew.

Each of them experienced some form of conflict or another; the Singapore uprising, Aden, The Tirkish Invasion on Cyprus (we were all involved with that one having to be evacuated out of the country), the Falklands, Gulf War, Bosnia, numerous NI tours and now Afganistan.

We have been so fortunate that on each occasion our loved ones came home safe and well.  Many are not so fortunate.  The work Help for Heros do is amazing and the brave service men & women truly deserve the help and support they are given.

I truly appreciate times are hard at the minute but whatever you can spare - even if it is just 10p - please do so. 

Many thanks