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Postcards From Midlife

Tummy fat be gone! With YouTube fitness star Lucy Wyndham-Read

Season 7, Ep. 4

Trish and Lorraine meet Lucy Wyndham-Read who is on a mission to solve weight and body dilemmas for midlife women as well as showing how exercise can relieve peri-menopause symptoms. Lucy also shares her story of living with lasting trauma following the tragic loss of her fiance and how it has shaped her life in a way she never expected.


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