Exercise pushes super slimmer to weight-loss goal

Debbie Plumpton, 43, from Liversedge, was among those honoured at the Rosemary Conley Diet and Fitness Magazine annual awards.

She took the Super Fit Slimmer of the Year award after losing weight with the help of exercise and was among a catalogue of 12 successful dieters, who each took a prize of £1,000.

They were presented with their prizes by Ms Conley, who said: “This year we have received an enormous number of applications for our annual Slimmers of the Year event. I am delighted to reward these amazing 12 slimmers, who between them have lost an astounding 102 stone.”

Other winners included Liz Knight, 26, of Lancaster, who was morbidly obese and managed to shed more than half her body weight to be named biggest loser slimmer of the year.

She had previously weighed more than 25 stone and needed size 32 clothes, but is now down to a size 14 and weighs a little more than 11 stone.

She has also lost the most amount of weight for a female slimmer in the history of the competition.

It was an invitation to a friend’s wedding that inspired her to lose the weight.

She said: “She said if I lost five stone in a year, she would pay
for my fare to Ireland, so I
lost 10.

“My life has just completely turned around, it’s from one end of the scale to the other.”

Laura Mack, 28, from Staffordshire, lost more than 11 stone after she visited a fertility clinic and was told her weight
was stopping her becoming pregnant.

Ms Mack, from Tamworth, used to weigh 22 stone 3lb and wear a dress size 26/28.

The yummy mummy slimmer of the year winner is now a size 12 and has since given birth to two healthy boys aged two and three.