Herts Slimming Club Success Stories

We are proud whenever a member gets to their target weight and achieves their own personal goal. The hard work doesn't stop for Herts Slimming Clubs as we provide ongoing support and help to all our target weight members regularly weighing and talking to them about maintaining their weight. These are some of our many recent success stories.

Gemma Tuff, aged 24 - Lost 3 stones 8lbs

I had been big all my life and my weight stopped me from doing many things, including swimming and socialising. I felt very ashamed to be overweight and I felt ugly fat and depressed. Many things made me feel unhappy about my weight, one of the worse moments was being asked when was the baby due and I wasn't even pregnant!

I ate all the foods which are bad for you, the high fat ones such as lots of pizza and takeaways and I lived on chocolate and chips.

I have a sister who is close in age to me and as we grew up I was always the fat one and my sister the slim one. I was really fed up with being overweight and I knew I had to do something about it. I wanted to wear nice clothes and feel good about myself.

"I was really fed up with being overweight and I knew I had to do something about it."

I saw an ad for Herts Slimming Clubs in a local newsagent and went along with my sister Janine. I was given a lifestyle assessment and advised to eat more fruit and vegetables and given a healthy eating plan to follow. I decided to also do some exercise and this included some walking and using a climbing machine at home I also did sit ups.

I found the hardest part was adapting my eating habits when socialising with friends and family but I learned to compensate for this on other days and make sensible choices when I was out. It has taken me around a year to lose my weight.

I found filing in the food intake sheets a great help and going to the meeting gave me support which kept me going. Once I had lost quite a bit of weight, people kept saying "you're fine as you are" don't lose anymore but I knew I wanted to lose it all this time. I thought I would never be slim.

"I saw an ad for Herts Slimming Clubs in a local newsagent and went along with my sister Janine."

Now I've proved to my self I can do it, I stuck with it and now I can show my new figure off to people who doubted me. My eating habits are so different now I have much more vegetables and make meals myself so I know exactly what has gone into it. My lifestyle has changed so much; I am much happier and more confident than I have ever been. Now I control my food, it doesn't control me. I am much healthier and am determined to stick with these changed forever.