The Style Stories Podcast · Personal Stylist Lisa Gillbe

Three Dress Sizes Down: Alison’s Real-Life Style Transformation ✨

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Alison says the loss took four months and “just over three stone” by January 2025.

Lisa opens with the feel of a guest coming back for the honest second chapter. After a few solo episodes, she brings Alison Longworth back on, not as a case study with a neat bow on it, but as a former client whose clothes have had to catch up with real life: a law career, a move from London to the Cotswolds, and a quick body change. Alison had replied to Lisa's earlier piece about finding style after major weight loss because, frankly, there was more to say once you had lived it. The episode stays practical. Lisa and Alison move from style transformation into the nuts and bolts of weight-loss jabs, appetite, support, and the odd moment when your wardrobe stops making sense. Alison says she was lucky. She started at the end of August last year and had lost just over three stone by the beginning of January 2025. She had no side effects, and the weight came off steadily until the run-up to Christmas, when it started coming off too quickly and she contacted the pharmacy team. That keeps the conversation grounded. Alison is not pitching a miracle. She talks about dose changes, proper support, and the point where she had to say she did not want to go lower. The style part lands because the clothes are not separate from the body story. Support gets plenty of airtime too: a nutritionist, chat group help, articles, exercise advice, food guidance, and a recipe book. Her most relatable admission is simple. They eat really well, but she eats too much, and the jab helped with portion size without turning food into a misery project. Lisa adds some context around the medication starting as a diabetes drug to regulate insulin, then brings it back to appetite, fat processing, and day-to-day life. By the end, the wardrobe question is not just what size fits now. It is how to look at yourself without dragging the old version into the mirror. Lisa also points listeners to a January workshop, with an early bird price of £149 before it rises to £195 on the 1st of December.

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A grounded style conversation about dressing the person you are now, not the one you used to be.

Lisa Gilbey and Alison Longworth meet in a follow-up conversation about finding style after significant weight loss, and the piece is strongest when it stays with the practical business of dressing a changed body.

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