Jo Loses her Bingo Wings!

Tagged as: Bingo Blog | by Hollie Sanders

When you talk about bingo wings you are discussing the saggy bits underneath people’s arms, but just who come up with this term, who knows! A lady called Jo from Walton has recently hit her 60th birthday, but this plucky lady won’t be letting life pass her by now because she has just done away with her bingo wings after shedding nearly 8 stone in weight. The breakup of jo’s marriage spurred her into action as she believed that her 17 stone figure at the time could have been a contributing factor as to why her husband left her.

Jo needed to have her bingo wings surgically removed after losing so much weight as those saggy bits under her arms would just not go. The now size 10, mother of three Jo had this to say about what caused her marriage break up and what was the turning point in her life.

Speaking about whether Jo thought her weight was a factor in the ending of her marriage she said, “If I was to speak to him he would probably say not, But I think it certainly contributed to my husband leaving me. I was happy in my marriage; probably he wasn’t so happy. Because I was always very aware of my size, we were not as close as a couple as we might have been. I had not gone off sex, I had gone off the idea of it because of how I looked, though I’m not going to knock him. He was a good guy.”

“I had gone to the doctors about something unrelated to my weight but he asked me to get on the scales. I did so and he looked me in the eye and then back to the scales and said ‘you are very fat’. I weighed about 18 stones and I was morbidly obese. The nurses told me I was at risk of diabetes, heart attack, stroke . . . I took it a day at a time for 10 months and, soon after, realised I was losing weight. Then I realised I had to get to the gym and do some cardiovascular exercise, and they have been so supportive.”

It cost Jo £4,000 to get her bingo wings clipped, but she said, “The cost was well worth it”!