"Before my slimming success I would run away if camera was produced! I hated having my photo taken. Today, it actually felt good to pose for a picture. I was eighteen and a half stone when I realised that something had to change, and soon. With two young children I was a busy mother but I didn't have the energy I needed to do simple things like playing with the kids. I was lethargic, I never exercised, and my diet was a random mix of foods, many of which had little nutritional value.

Unislim worked for me from day one. I liked that I didn't have to give up any single food, but needed to make sensible changes instead. Before, my cupboards were full of sweets, chocolate; full fat everything. I would joke that I ate like a child, always with one hand in the cookie jar! Now I love porridge, tuna and beetroot. I eat lots of fresh fish and have replaced bread with Ryvita.

The key to my success was not only changing my diet forever but the fact that I walk every day. Rain or shine, I've become addicted to getting out in the fresh air. The advice my class leader has given me has stuck, and now I know that I would never in a million years go back to the shape I once was. If I can do it, you can too."