A woman who used to eat Greggs for lunch everyday lost over five stone after receiving a sudden wake up call.
Sarah Greaves, from Netherton, couldn't bare to look at herself in the mirror when she tipped the scales at just under 18 stone.
But after seeing a photo of herself in her work uniform, Sarah decided to join Slimming World and has now lost a whopping 5st 5lbs.
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Sarah told the ECHO: "I had a holiday coming up with my partner's family and his brothers and sisters were all there.
"There was a particular photo where I was in my work uniform at Christmas, it was a picture and just looking at that it was awful. I looked huge. When I saw it I was like 'I've got to do something.'"
Sarah said she had never tried to diet before so when her mum suggested they join Slimming World together she burst into tears.
Sarah said: "I just burst out crying as if to say 'thank god someone said something to me.'
"She just said 'I'm thinking of going back to Slimming World again do you want to come with me?' And I was like 'oh my god yes please.'
"I'd never go on my own, I don't know why. I never had confidence when I was that big and I'm still trying to get confidence now, being obviously a lot smaller in size."
Before she set out to lose weight, Sarah said she would always skip breakfast and her diet consisted of a lot of convenience foods
She said: "To be honest with you I've never been lazy.
"I'd never joined a gym at that point, the only exercise I was doing was probably walking to work and being in work.
"Eating, I would probably say I would be eating four or five packets of crisps a day without realising.
"The food I was eating was obviously never good. I'd have Greggs probably every day with working.
"I never thought of making my own dinner, whereas now I plan my breakfasts, I'll have a healthy snack of like fruit in between and then batch cook for the week with dinners and teas."
Sarah first joined Slimming World in January 2017 and lost four stone.
After taking a break, she has since rejoined in April and gone on to hit her target weight of 13 stone.
Sarah said: "The reward that I get now is that I never used to look at myself in the mirror.
"I've got one in the bedroom and the only time I'd look at it was when I was fully dressed and doing my hair.
"Now, I'd get up I'd start getting changed and I would, I'd look at myself, so I think that's the biggest reward for me, the biggest achievement."
Sarah's incredible weight loss has also recently enabled her and her partner to be accepted for IVF treatment after she reduced her BMI to around 26.3.
Sarah said: "IVF, we started that in the middle of last year because myself and my partner haven't been able to conceive; we've been trying for over five years now.
"I knew weight can be a bit part of it. My BMI was around 29 point something and I knew I had to be below 30 to even be accepted [for IVF.]"
Sarah and her partner found out they had been accepted for IVF in December, around the same time that Sarah also hit her target weight.
Recalling the moment she found out, Sarah said: "I was on my own at the time, my partner was in work.
"I felt myself tear up as soon as I opened the letter and obviously read it. I just felt myself get dead emotional.
"I thought 'this is it now we've got the help that we needed.'"
