As the new year beckons, thoughts turn to changes you want to make in 2025. New Year's resolutions are commonplace around this time of year and range from a myriad of things like gossiping less, travelling more, picking up a hobby or quitting vaping.
Regardless of the resolution, the decision to change something in your life takes time, discipline, resilience and mental fortitude.
Throughout 2024, the M.E.N. has highlighted stories of people exhibiting these extraordinary traits to ditch their unhealthy habits and lose weight.
Below is a list of the people in Greater Manchester who turned their lives around after getting a wake up call. 'I turned my 'embarrassing' life into Tik Tok fame' The simple motion of bending down to get in to a car turned Tom Leonard-White's life upside down.
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