Dragons' Den star Sara Davies says weight loss enabled her to 'run up mountains'

Sara Davies has conscionable finished trekking the Indian Himalayas for the bosom crab foundation CoppaFeel! - which she was inspired to bash truthful by adjacent person Amy Dowden

For galore of us, getting successful signifier tin consciousness similar a immense elevation to climb, but for Dragons' Den prima Sara Davies, her newfound emotion of fittingness has virtually enabled her "to tally up and down mountains." Sara. 40, who has dropped much than 3 formal sizes successful a year, has conscionable finished trekking the Indian Himalayas to rise wealth for the bosom crab foundation CoppaFeel!

A Strictly Come Dancing contestant successful 2021, she was inspired to instrumentality portion by her person Amy Dowden, a nonrecreational dancer for the show, who has bravely shared details of her travel from being diagnosed with people 3 bosom crab successful May 2023, to getting the each wide this year.

“She's a precise bully person of mine,” says Sara, “I was reasoning astir her and talking astir her a batch erstwhile we were trekking.” Amy has revealed however she began checking her breasts aft completing a CoppaFeel! Trek with podcast big Giovanna Fletcher - starring to her discovering a lump connected the time earlier she went connected honeymoon with chap dancer Ben Jones. Sara continues: “Detection is what saves lives. It could person been a precise antithetic story.”

The businesswoman from Coundon, County Durham, spent 4 days trekking from dawn to dusk connected the Dhauladhar upland scope and navigating treacherous terrain without a comfy furniture oregon showers. Thanks to a fittingness thrust she has been diligently pursuing since past year, erstwhile she was warned by her GP that she was astatine hazard of processing benignant 2 diabetes, she was delighted to person been capable to bound up and down the precarious paths.

She says: “It meant I could tally up and down that upland alternatively of conscionable being successful the enactment trekking. I was capable to cheque successful with the radical astatine the beforehand and tally backmost up and down again. I've mislaid a spot of weight. I person toned up, I'm stronger, my muscles are stronger. I'm doing spot grooming and moving a lot.”

Explaining the crushed for her fittingness drive, the mum-of-two adds: “I was going for a wellness checkup past year, wherever my doc gave maine a spot of a footwear up the down and said that, if I wasn’t careful, I'd beryllium looking astatine benignant 2 diabetes this twelvemonth and I needed to get my BMI nether control.”

In emblematic Dragon style, she roseate to the situation - exercising, cutting retired sweetener and expanding the magnitude of vegetables and fibre successful her diet. “Had I not done that, I don’t deliberation I would person been good capable to bash the trek. I would not person been capable to negociate it similar I did,” she says.

Joining her were chap celebrities Emma Willis, Angela Scanlon, Candice Brown, Erin Kennedy and Giovanna Fletcher, arsenic good arsenic a fig of women who were affected by bosom cancer. The trek was peculiarly poignant, arsenic it came conscionable implicit six months aft the decease of Coppafeel! founder Kristen Hallenga, who was diagnosed with incurable signifier 4 bosom crab astatine the property of 23 successful 2009, and wanted the foundation to beforehand aboriginal detection by encouraging women nether 30 to regularly cheque their breasts.

Aged 38, erstwhile she died connected 6 May 2024, Kristen campaigned for crab acquisition to beryllium included successful the schoolhouse program and wanted a precocious diagnosis of bosom crab to beryllium eradicated successful her lifetime, making Coppafeel! nary longer necessary. “Trust your body. Believe successful hope. Leave country for miracles,” was 1 of her mantras.

Each personage connected the CoppaTrek! Himalayan situation earlier this period led a squad of women who either had bosom cancer, had received the each clear, oregon were supporting idiosyncratic adjacent to them with the disease.

As good arsenic trekking for 10 hours a day, Sara says: “We had to enarthrosis a batch of these people's worries, concerns, perceive the stories, and effort and prime them up. And it is truly hard. You've got to really, truly attraction astatine a very, precise heavy level.” Sara bonded truthful tightly with her radical that she adjacent stripped disconnected alongside them, saying: “Around fractional my radical had gone done a mastectomy oregon had reconstructive surgery.

“On the 3rd day, astatine a peculiarly beauteous vantage point, 1 of the girls wanted to instrumentality her apical disconnected and instrumentality a representation of her looking retired astatine the presumption from behind," she says. "It went from determination and I deliberation astir fractional of our radical bared our chests with our backs to the camera. It was a truly moving time. It conscionable allowed radical to unfastened up and speech astir this benignant of stuff.”

Sara, who founded her institution Crafter's Companion successful 2005 portion she was inactive astatine university, was besides capable to usage her concern skills to rally the group. ”We really adopted a small spot of the Dragons' Den happening portion we were trekking,” she laughs. “It tin beryllium hard to accidental to idiosyncratic that you are struggling 1 day. So, 1 of the squad came up with a codification connection to accidental which was ‘I request an investment.’ People would travel up to maine and accidental ‘Sara I deliberation this idiosyncratic needs an investment.’

“The travel was conscionable incredible. It was draining but phenomenally rewarding. I had immoderate of the champion days of my life.”

Sara joined Giovanna Fletcher successful completing the 'CoppaTrek! with Gi' successful the Indian Himalayas, raising captious funds and consciousness for bosom crab charity, CoppaFeel!. To donate, delight click here