Super slimmer Sue sheds 9 stone

Super slimmer Sue Rai was once so depressed about her weight she didn't want to leave the house.

Now she is full of get up and go after shedding nearly 9st. Sue, from Bilston, endured almost a decade of turmoil as her weight fluctuated wildly.

This was due to a routine of quick-fix diets followed by comfort-eating binges.

But after reaching a dangerous 19st 7lbs, the 34-year-old finally summoned the determination to get her problem under control once and for all and beat the clinical depression that had dragged her to her lowest ebb. Sue, who is now a trim 10st 11lbs after dieting, rewarded herself with a tummy tuck just before Christmas to get rid of her excess flab. "I love my food, especially my desserts – I just eat less of them these days," she beamed.

"I'm definitely more careful about what I eat but I wouldn't give up strawberry cheesecake for anyone."

Previously, a typical day would see Sue skip breakfast before snacking on biscuits and chocolate mid-morning.

Her lunch would be jacket potato with butter, cheese and beans, followed by trifle or cheesecake and in the evenings she would wolf down samosas, curry cooked in fattening ghee and chocolate cake. These days she is much healthier, without starving herself, and she regularly exercises at The Village Hotel in Walsall.

Breakfast is porridge or Weetabix with banana and her mid-morning snack is fruit. For lunch she tucks into a three-cheese salad wrap with side salad, and her evening meal is typically chicken or vegetable curry cooked in olive oil with chapatis. Sue even allows herself ice cream on Fridays. She said: "I hated my body. I could grab hold of the loose skin round my tummy in two handfuls. I used to cry and didn't want to leave the house."

Cosmetic surgery, which she underwent at Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham before Christmas, has given her the self-confidence she craved. She has just returned to her job at Walsall-based Homeserve and is feeling on top of the world.