I moved to Britain’s most magical village and finally bagged the body of my dreams – but it’s not just me

SCROLLING done eBay Sunita Inderjeet, 49, searches for the cleanable witch costume, completing her look with a pointy chapeau and broomstick.

And portion Sunita whitethorn look similar millions of different Brits preparing to observe each things spooky connected the 31st of October this year, Halloween has other peculiar value for the erstwhile sports nine manager.

Sunita lives successful Canewdon, adjacent Southend On Sea known arsenic Britain’s witching village- a tiny assemblage is historically location to witchcraft, covens and mysterious happenings.

And she credits the ‘mystical magic’ and the Canewdon witches for helping her and 4 different locals with losing a staggering 36 chromatic successful weight.

“Before moving present I astir ate myself to death,” Sunita tells Fabulous.

“I was truthful overweight I could hardly locomotion to the bath and adjacent getting retired of my seat was difficult.

“I was truthful overweight that the abdominous was severely compressing my captious organs.

“But moving to Britain's witching colony changed my life.”

But Sunita, who has present mislaid 9 stone, says she isn’t the lone 1 to payment from the town’s magic.

“My next-door neighbour Louise Waller has mislaid 8 stone,” she says.

“Three different colony friends person mislaid 20 chromatic betwixt them. That is not a coincidence, it’s bully witch magic.

“If I had not moved here, I’d beryllium dead. 

“This Halloween I americium celebrating my magical value loss, a caller beingness and paying tribute to the village’s spooky history.”

By the property of 45 Former sports nine manager, Sunita tipped the scales astatine 24st and was a size 26.

“I’m lone 5 ft 5 and astatine my heaviest value I had a BMI of 54 making maine morbidly obese,” she says.

“In my teens I was a mean size and sporty and erstwhile I near home, I worked astatine a sports nine and enjoyed cooking for myself and eating healthy.

“Then successful my thirties I started gaining value owed to my emotion of takeaways and sweets.”

Sunita admits she perpetually enactment disconnected dieting and didn't see her value summation a occupation and by 2018 weighed 18st.

“Then successful 2019 my champion person died from  cervical crab astatine the property of 34. I was devastated, it shattered me,” she admits.

“In October 2020 azygous Sunita wanted a caller commencement and moved to Canewdon.

“Everyone was truthful friendly, and I loved each the stories astir the colony and its witching history.

“It’s a tourer hotspot for lovers of witching past and I americium a past buff.”

However, erstwhile lockdown deed Sunita couldn’t enactment owed to covid.

“I was comfortableness eating each the clip and my intelligence wellness deteriorated,” she admits. 

“I was stricken with anxiousness and depression. 

“I’d devour immense plates of fried chickenhearted and atom and scoff 24 mini cocoa bars successful 1 sitting. Chocolate and sugary foods made maine consciousness better.

“I was piling connected pounds and not exercising. But alternatively of easing my anxiousness and grief it was causing maine carnal symptom and suffering.

“I would sweat conscionable walking to the kitchen. I was retired of enactment getting apparel retired of the tumble dryer and some knees had astir fixed retired owed to my monolithic value gain.

“Getting up disconnected the sofa took an hr of agonising pain. I could hardly respire oregon walk.

“I was 48 years aged connected a walking instrumentality and incapable to locomotion on my ain plot path. 

“I was eating myself to death.”

When Sunita moved in, her next-door neighbour Louise Waller, present 34, introduced herself and the brace became friends.

“Louise would popular successful and accidental hullo and cheque connected maine during lockdown. That would ne'er hap successful London,” says Sunita.

Louise, a erstwhile bureau staffer, started to interest astir Sunita’s value gain.

“I knew that she was going through,” Lousie says.

“In 2016 I was a size 26 and weighed astir 19 stone, I had a BMI of 49 and was told if I didn't suffer value I’d die. 

“Being obese was besides causing fertility issues. I had tried for a decennary to conceive, and thing had happened.

“My dada passed distant successful 2017 and I was devastated. He near maine immoderate wealth and made maine committedness to bash thing beingness changing with it.”

Louise utilized £3000 to person a gastric sleeve which meant 90 percent of her tummy was removed successful Turkey.

“I didn't probe the session and aft the country developed a humor clot,” she says.

“I spent 10 days successful intensive attraction successful a Turkish hospital, developed treble pneumonia and astir died from an infection.

“I deliberation the Canewdon witches were watching implicit me. If they had not, been I would person died connected the operating table.”

Despite her brushwood with decease Louise mislaid 8 stone. 

“As I mislaid the value I exercised much and enjoyed a consciousness of state I had ne'er encountered,” she says.

“I met a caller spouse and fell large astir instantly acknowledgment to my value loss. 

“Now I'm a arrogant and steadfast mum to a 16-month-old lad and a three-month-old daughter.

“When I saw Sunita suffering, I knew I had to assistance her reclaim her health.

“I encouraged Sunita to question aesculapian help.”

However, Sunita’s NHS advisor refused her requests for value nonaccomplishment country saying she was excessively ample for the process and determination was a hazard she would not past it.

“That shocked maine into action,” Sunita says.

“Louise helped maine commencement a value nonaccomplishment shingle fare and successful 3 months I managed to suffer 2 stone.

“That 2 chromatic value nonaccomplishment meant I could locomotion from my chamber to the room without losing my breath. 

“It whitethorn look specified a tiny region to the mean idiosyncratic but for maine it was similar moving a marathon.

“I started walking a thigh of my house, past my plot and past to immoderate of the section witching spots and a small much value came off.”

Sunita’s parents were truthful acrophobic her begetter offered to wage for a backstage value nonaccomplishment process successful Britain.

In September 2022  Sunita had mislaid capable value to acquisition a £9k gastric sleeve process astatine the Broomfield Hospital successful Chelmsford Essex.

“I was told I was ‘less likely’ to dice having the process and I knew I had to instrumentality the risk,” she says.

“If I didn’t person the surgery, I knew I would dice wrong the adjacent 5 years arsenic a effect of my obesity.”

Following the country Sunita mislaid a further  almost 7 chromatic bringing her to 9  stone full and has gone from a size 26 to a size 18. 

“I person mislaid the equivalent value to a babe rhino oregon 135 crockery cans. I can't judge it,” she says.

“I workout by walking astir the colony and visiting the assorted sites linked to its spooky history. 

“I tin lone devour a thumb size information of nutrient each meal. I inactive person to suffer different 3 chromatic to get to my extremity of 13 stone.

“I volition request reconstructive country connected some my knees. Every time I bash seat yoga, I locomotion astir my plot and Louise inspires maine to spell further each day.

“The country has fixed maine backmost my life. It’s played a cardinal relation successful helping maine woody with my anxiousness and depression.”

Sunita and Louise person mislaid 17 chromatic and different 3 friends successful the colony person mislaid a further twenty chromatic connected their value nonaccomplishment travel utilizing exercise, elemental dieting and value nonaccomplishment injectables.

“Everyone successful our tiny assemblage has lost value to unrecorded longer and critically alteration their lives whether that’s starring healthier lives oregon being capable to person children,” Sunita says.

“Everyone knows everyone else, and we each stock workout tips and animate each other, I could not person achieved my value nonaccomplishment without the enactment of the village.

“Louise and I are testament to the information that Britain's witching colony is afloat of bully spirits and spells. 

“We emotion to gag astir however everyone we cognize has mislaid a ample magnitude of value acknowledgment to the achromatic witch spells.

“For the archetypal clip successful a decennary I don't person to interest astir going to furniture and my lungs oregon bosom being crushed by my morbidly obese body. 

“I tin spot the future. I couldn’t person done it without the friends I made successful the witching village.”