Embarking on a new fitness challenge can be a daunting experience as it can change you both inside and out.
But one internal change left one woman too red-faced to do one of her workout activities.
That’s why Joanne paid a visit to Channel 4‘s Poo HQ to seek help from experts after she started suffering from ‘smelly gas.’
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The 57-year-old optician’s manager decided 15 months ago to get “stronger and lighter” and decided to take up pole dancing classes.
But her new diet soon had her stinking up the place and made her too scared to get on the pole.
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She said: “It was all good up until 4 or 5 months ago when this smell started to come out of me.
“It’s like a chemical reaction. You can feel it starting and you’ve gotta – swift exit.”
Joanne claimed the smell is so bad that her partner, who works as a gas engineer, tells her that her farts smell worse than a gas leak on his job.
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“If you’ve ever smelt natural gas, you’ll know what I mean – I’m talking really horrible sulfur,” she added.
“It’s not controllable when it just emerges. The whole house somedays can smell like that.
“Even if you went outside and did it and come back in. It follows you in. It sticks to you.”
She claims it started to affect her pole dancing because she ‘has to be able to control and contract her muscles’ – but doing that without breaking wind was hard.
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Appearing in Episode 5 of the Know You Sh*t series, Joanne was able to get some advice to help bring an end to her unpleasant symptoms.
Dietician Sophie Medlin advised her to change her whey protein shakes, which contain a lot of lactose, to whey protein isolate, which doesn’t have any.
Since making the changes, Joanne has managed to get back on the pole without the worry of embarrassing smells.
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