Kim bins the sins to shed 10 stone
After years of gorging on curries, chips and chocolate, mother Kim Potter decided it was time for desperate action - and now she's half the woman she used to be.
After years of gorging on curries, chips and chocolate, mother Kim Potter decided it was time for desperate action - and now she's half the woman she used to be.
The 45-year-old's junk food diet had taken its toll on her wasteline and her weight had spiralled to 19st 7lb. Kim, from Britannia Road, in Bradley, Bilston, felt miserable scouring the racks at stalls for size 28 clothes. But it was a routine health check-up that made her realise she had to shed the stones and change a lifetime of bad habits.
"I have always had a problem with weight," said Kim, who lives with her 53-year-old husband Norman.
"My mum used to fry everything. All we ever ate was fatty foods.
"I think because you grow up like that you just take that on when you get married and carry on eating the same things."
It was only when Kim, mother to 19-year-old Adam, went for a routine check at the doctor's and discovered her blood pressure was "sky high" that she knew something had to change.
"It really scared me," said Kim. "Although I have always had a problem with weight my blood pressure has never been a problem. They told me it was sky high and something had to be done." She joined a WeightWatchers programme straight away and has lost an incredible 10st, shrinking to a svelte size 12.
The cleaner has even recruited 10 relatives to join her at the weekly sessions.
"I feel so much better about myself since I lost the weight," said Kim.
"I feel healthier and I can wear nice clothes for the first time in my life.
"I have been on diets pretty much all of my life but this is the one which has really worked. I can still eat some of the food I love in moderation and so I don't feel deprived. She added: "Where before I used to fry and bake things, now I grill instead because it's much healthier.
"So I can still have chops and potatoes, but I don't use any fat on the meat and I boil the potatoes.
She added that fish had also replaced a lot of portions of red meat in her diet, but she treats herself occasionally.
By Victoria Nash
