Beebee recalls how uncomfortable she felt at the Christmas party that inspired her to change her lifestyle.
I was traumatised when I saw the photos but it was what made me realise I needed to change. Beebee worked in the NHS for 25 years, first as a nurse and then in a high pressure managerial position, which she believes contributed to her bad eating habits.
She would be too busy to eat all day before consuming a vast number of calories, usually takeaways and fast food, in one go when she got home. Beebee believes having her two sons, Oliver, now 25, and Dominic, now 23, with husband Richard Beebee, 52, may also have contributed to her weight gain.
Read more: 'I did for for myself and not anyone else': Adele on her body transformation. By December she weighed 15st 12oz and wore a size 24, but she says the way she looked lead to her dreading her work Christmas party. Beebee said she felt "traumatised" after seeing the photos from the event and made it her New Year's resolution to lose weight. So in January she enrolled on a personalised plan called the Diet, following the strict plan of meal replacements and low-calorie meal alternatives to the letter and swapping healthy alternatives for her previous late-night, fast food binges.
As well as helping to improve her physical health, the weight loss also had an impact on her mental wellbeing. Beebee now eats around 1, calories per day but says she doesn't follow a particular diet and just focuses on eating three healthy meals a day. She has also cut down her alcohol intake after previously drinking "a couple of glasses every evening" - and takes her two energetic labradors for walks twice a day to keep active.
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View source. History Talk 0. Do you like this video? In Toriko , we have Tommyrod who has insect eggs in his stomach and he can hatch them at will and regurgitate them fully grown from his mouth to obey his every command. It's every bit as nasty as it sounds. The villainous Nubia Connection in Braiger uses bee-shaped robots as their main Mooks. GX has an attack called "Locust Storm Barrage" which uses locusts instead of bees , but it's just as destructive.
In Lord Marksman and Vanadis , Duke Ganelon has Roland murdered by trapping him in a windowless room and then releasing a swarm of bees into it, which sting him to death. Card Games. Magic: The Gathering : Almost any card featuring aggressive bees or wasps — something the game has no shortage of — could count, given that the game's cards represent creatures being summoned by two planeswalkers — the players — in a magic duel against each others, but some cards openly depict various types of weaponized bees and wasps in-universe: The artifact Hornet Cannon depicts a cannon that fires robotic wasps.
Belligerent Hatchling , an elemental that takes the form of a doglike creature with bees pouring out of its mouth. Hornet Harasser depicts a goblin that went to look for honey in a wasp nest and instead found something "far more interesting". Its card art depicts it carrying around a tame wasp colony, and it has the ability to instantly lower another creature's toughness and attack power — potentially enough to immediately kill a target creature — representing the damage done by the insects it unleashes.
One of the cards released in Unstable, the third Un-set non-canon card sets intended to be deliberately goofy, weird and off-the-wall , Bee-Bee Gun , depicts a dolphin-mole chimera shooting a swarm of fat bumblebees out of a Gatling gun fitted with a compartment filled with honeycomb.
Comic Books. Sometimes the skeleton of the Nazi scientist eaten by his irradiated mutant bee colony is under the bees, sometimes not. Either way, he appears to be in charge.
Together, they're the perfect foe! Film — Live-Action. Apocalypto : Jaguar Paw throws a wasps nest at his pursuers, who are forced to run from the wasps. Bedazzled : The Devil demonstrates his evil by tossing a jar full of wasps into a peaceful group of flower children. Stanley, who has sold his soul for seven wishes, criticizes the deed, but isn't willing to use one of his wishes to help them. Candyman : The Candyman's backstory is that he was hunted down by thugs, had his hand cut off, and stung to death by a hive of bees after having its honey spread over him.
Later on he's revealed to be little more than a skeleton wreathed in the many thousands of bees that killed him. The Deadly Bees shown on Mystery Science Theater has a mad bee farmer who bred a special breed of bee that will attack anyone or anything that has a trigger scent on it.
However, the bees manage to kill everyone except the intended targets because the villain is really inept at placing the scent. In Defendor , the title superhero throws jars of angry bees at bad guys. In Jackass 3D , the boys have a skit where two of them actually play tetherball with a wasps nest. This goes about as well as can be expected.
Killer Party : The boys of the Beta Tau throw a jar of bees into the backyard of the sorority, where they attack the girls and drive them naked out of the hot tub. Little Nicky : "So while we wait, for your enjoyment, I bring you a dear sweet man Mister Henry Winkler! Covered in bees! Western Rio Lobo has a Confederate raiding party throw a hornets' nest into a train car carrying some Union soldiers and a large gold supply they were guarding.
One of the Union soldiers even dies from injuries sustained by throwing himself out of the train to escape said bugs. Ruthless People : When Barbara learns of her husband's infidelity and refusal to pay her ransom she fantasizes about how she would punish him by covering him with honey and taking him to a bee farm. Sleepaway Camp had a scene where the murderer kills a bully by locking him in a washroom stall before cutting open the window above him and dropping a wasps nest on him.
In Speed Racer , one member of the Viking-themed racer team had her car equipped with a beehive catapult. Sender to kill him. Or at least that's what he thinks, since he's a complete Cloudcuckoolander.
It does make him drive off the road though. In one of The Three Stooges pictures they were cave men , they fight off another band of cavemen by shooting a beehive at them using a giant sling shot. They also use chemical warfare by shooting a skunk at them. The Wicker Man : "Not the beeeeeeeees! It is worth noting that there were no bees whatever in the original. There were some apples, but they never attacked anyone.
They didn't need to. In the novel The Road to Damascus , a Bolo story written by Linda Evans and John Ringo , at one point in an alien invasion of their world, some protagonists throw the bee hives used for making honey into a barn where several of the invader's soldiers are found, killing the soldiers.
The bees were genetically designed to be more aggressive to force out native competitors on other worlds. Most of the book she just has magic honey, but at dramatically appropriate moments she has magic bee swarms as well. Hodgell's Chronicles of the Kencyrath book To Ride a Rathorn , protagonist Jame and insect-attracting boy Gari jointly kill someone by sending a swarm of bees down their throat.
Codex Alera : The Vord used a nasty variant in the later books where swarms of wasps flying at high speed would attack intruders. At the end of the Culture novel Look to Windward , the Culture takes a horrific revenge on the masterminds behind a terrorist attack in a way that fully supports their Beware the Nice Ones credentials.
One plotter is attacked by some kind of nanomachines which transform into insects which he is afraid of and invade every orifice and sting him to death. In undoubtedly one of the creepiest parts of The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon , by Stephen King , the titular girl, who's name completely escapes me at the moment, hallucinates a "man" made of bees, possibly with a skeleton underneath.
He claims to be the herald of the monster in the woods that's hunting her. It's that kind of book. The monster itself is later revealed to be a a bear that spits bees. Or just a bear. In Suzanne Collins's novel The Hunger Games , Katniss, the heroine, gruesomely kills two of her opponents by dropping a hive of hyper-angry, mutated wasps called tracker jackers on them.
The author describes, in full detail, one of the girls' slow, painful, seizure-filled death; and how the once "breathtakingly beautiful girl" is now unrecognizable from the stings. To make matters worse, a single sting from one of these critters is enough to induce vivid, terrifying hallucinations, as Katniss discovers the hard way.
The Martians use a gun that shoots live bees , the idea being that the moral responsibility for the actual killing is laid on the head of the living projectile, and the gun-wielder's role is mitigated to that of an accomplice. Proves every bit as effective as earthly firearms. In Of Bees And Mist the Evil Matriarch Eva uses bees which arise from her spiteful words, to control her husband among other terrifying things. Robin Hobb 's Realm of the Elderlings : In the Farseer trilogy, Molly once tricked a squad of guards into thinking she could control bees.
She made sure she was in shadow while the guards were brightly lit knowing that the bees would fly towards light , opened the beehive and told the bees to kill them all.
Something similar happens in Redwall at least twice: The original Redwall ; Jess Squirrel and Silent Sam put a hornets' nest in a barrel and drop it over the wall onto the bearers of the battering ram. Marlfox ; the Abbeydwellers see that the titular villains and their followers are knocking down an old tree to use as a battering ram.
They do nothing, because they know that said tree is full of wasp and termite nests, and the attackers suffer the consequences.
Not quite the same, but Martin and his friends in Martin the Warrior get trapped in a clearing full of angry bees. In the most recent novel Doomwyte , some of the characters are attacked by bees apparently ruled by an elderly female hedgehog who is Unfortunately, the plot device they need is in her possession and she won't give it up so easily. Eventually, however, she is killed by her own bees.
Then there's Owch Mansions in Eulalia , designed to be a paradise for wasps. Very handy when vermin come to call. In Rudyard Kipling's The Second Jungle Book story " Red Dog ", Mowgli stirs up a hive of wild bees to attack the marauding wild dogs of the title, having smeared himself with garlic so the bees won't attack him before he can reach the comparative safety of the river.
In Lois McMaster Bujold 's The Sharing Knife : Beguilement , Dag defends himself against a group of village toughs trying to disrupt his wedding by dropping a wasp's nest on their heads. That he was able to magically convince the wasps to climb up pant legs and down shirt collars and to follow the boys all the way downriver was really just icing on the cake there. Star Wars Legends : In Survivor's Quest , the Vagaari have swarms of "schostri", yellow and black insects that can hide under their clothing or swarm in a protective spherical pattern around their handler.
Their stings are quickly fatal to most life-forms. If this seems like a Vong thing Maybe it is. Skitter from Worm has the ability to control anthropods of all types, including bees. Stinging insects are one of the most common uses of her power. Live-Action TV. Dead Man's Gun : The episode "The Medicine Man" involves Styles, one of the henchmen, being badly stung by bees from a trap left by the hero. Friday the 13th: The Series : The episode "Cupid's Quiver" had the surprisingly creepy villain kill a girl by trapping her in a car with a sack containing a beehive.
Grimm : Mellifers, who become a swarm of bees and attack. There was supposed to be a villain named Kane in Heroes season 2 that could control insects, with bees being his main "weapon". But he never showed up.
Or, more likely, given that this is Heroes , they didn't have the budget to show it more than once. He adds a cannon that shoots a laser-guided stream of bees at the opposing robot's controller.
It backfires. One of the early Mission: Impossible episodes had the team trying to figure out who the killer was in an estate by gaslighting the suspect, and there were bees everywhere in the background.
And there's a new corpse. In the climax, the door locks on its own, trapping the team out and the killer insde, and the killer is killed by thousands of bees swarming into the room. The new corpse turns out to be the late beekeeper of the estate. This was the only supernatural episode in the entire history of the show. A villain in Pushing Daisies killed the Victim of the Week by siccing trained bees on her.
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