I am just an ordinary 36 year old woman with 3 children, a husband and a dog. I was first told about Super Slim by a good friend who was an existing member. I joined at the end of July 2002 after finding many excuses as possible not to go. I was frightened I would be the heaviest there but eventually I took the bull by the horns and I haven't regretted it since, the only thing I regret is that I didn't join sooner. Everyone at the club has been great and they area really friendly group.

Losing my weight has given me such a confidence boost, I have more energy and I seem to be able to fit more into my day. No longer at the end of the day do my legs ache because I have stood on them for so long. I have now enrolled at college on a teaching assistant course and have started a placement at a special school, which hopefully will lead to bigger and better things.

After I started losing some of my weight I turned round to y husband and said lets book a holiday abroad, our first ever. Well I had to pick him up off the floor as he has been asking me for years to go away but I always put it off by saying I want to lose some weight first, but never really doing anything about it. I have no excuses now in fact we have booked two holidays, one with the children and one on our own, our second honeymoon.

Recently I went shopping for some clothes to go to the slimming clubs Christmas party and it was great and I enjoyed going into shops I wouldn't have dreamed of going into before I started to lose weight for fear of people looking at me and thinking why is she here! Instead of staying in the changing cubicle and quickly trying on the clothes and having a quick look in the mirror and hating what I saw. I had to step out of the cubicle to ask the assistant to pass me a smaller size, I was so ecstatic so I quickly changed into the smaller size and then stepped back out of the cubicle to get a better look in the mirror and was immediately complimented on how I looked.

When I returned home I couldn't wait to show my children what I had bought so I quickly tried on my new clothes and told them to close their eyes. I shall never forget their reactions as this is the slimmest my two youngest have seen me. When I asked my daughter who is only 5 if she liked my new clothes her answer was 'well Mum I can't say anything except you look brilliant' and that is the best confidence booster that anyone can have and makes me even more determined to get down to my target weight.

Starting Weight = 16st 13lbs
Total Weight Loss = 2st 7lbs
Weight Now = 14st 6lbs