Baby joy for slimmer Chris

So she started a diet, fell pregnant and gave birth to a girl. Christine Debney was a classic yo-yo dieter who had struggled with her weight since childhood.

At one point her weight hit 14st 2Ib and dress size 20. It was only after a series of miscarriages that she was spurred into action.

Christine, who had her first child Charlotte in 2001, fell pregnant again in 2004.

But 12 weeks into her pregnancy she miscarried.

Over the next 12 months, the nurse from Amblecote near Stourbridge, got pregnant three more times but each time she miscarried at around six weeks.

She said: "My weight had always been up and down but it was only when trying for a second child that I knew I needed to something about it. Having the miscarriages made me realise that my weight wasn't helping the situation," explained 39-year-old Christine.

"I knew I had to lose weight and get fit and I felt this would help me carry a baby full term," she said.

So she signed up to a Rosemary Conley Diet and Fitness Club run by Donna Eccleston in Kingswinford.

After a week she lost 7lb, and week by week 1-2Ib would drop off. Within 10 months she reached her weight loss goal of 3st 7lb and it was around that time she fell pregnant again.

"I was advised not to exercise, but I continued going to the classes to keep motivated and stayed out of the exercise part," she said.

On January 3 2006 Christine gave birth to a healthy baby girl, who she and her husband named Hannah.

"I felt convinced that by losing weight and becoming fitter, I'd given myself a better chance of carrying full term.

"I feel so much better and a lot more confident. I've lost the two and a half stone I gained during my pregnancy and I'm now 9st 13lb," said Christine, who was recently crowned Rosemary Conley's Regional Slimmer of the Year 2007.