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Mel Simmonds | Live Your Best Life

Posted on September 20, 2022
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on Food & Drink, From The Archives, Health, Inspirational, Local, Music, Web Exclusives

One woman from Charlottetown, NL makes big changes for the better with a goal to help others do the same
Mel Simmonds and her husband Brad had everything they could want – except for good health. “In 2018 I was at my heaviest, well on my way to 450lbs… medication

Tags: Brad Simmonds, food, health, Keto Newf, local, Mel Simmonds, Newfoundland and Labrador, The Shed, Weight loss

Through Thick and Thin

Posted on March 21, 2019
By Krystyn Decker
on Arts & Culture, Books, From The Archives, Inspirational, Web Exclusives

Tony Bussey, the Newfoundlander who lost half of his body weight, talks about his recently published book chronicling his extreme weight loss journey

Where most weight loss books take a more dry, fact-based and instructional approach, Newfoundlander Tony Bussey takes the opposite route. In his new book, Through Thick

Tags: books, local, Weight loss