Success Stories

70 year-old Heather Spratling from Norfolk lost 3 stone

"The slimmest person in the room!”

Over the years I had been gradually putting on more and more weight without really noticing, until a couple of years ago when I weighed myself to find that I had leapt from 10.5 stone to 15 stone. I couldn't believe it! How had I allowed myself to become so overweight?

This was definitely the shock I needed to make me do something about my weight so I tried to diet, losing about a stone and a half on the Slimming World plan. I always had a tendency to snack in between meals and I confess I'm a bit of a chocoholic, so I soon put the weight back on once I'd stopped doing the diet.

Then I heard about Go Lower and it's been a really positive journey for me. Not only have I dropped all my bad eating habits and lost all the weight I had gained over the years but I feel fitter and full of energy. Go Lower has given me a new lease of life.

What attracted me to this diet is the fact that all the meals are prepared for you, so you don't have to think about what you're going to eat next. All the planning and preparation is done for you, so you're not constantly thinking about all the foods you can or cannot have.

Before I started, I cleared my fridge and cupboards of anything that might tempt me and replaced them with my Go lower meals and snack bars. I can honestly say I found it easy to follow from day one and I've never felt hungry.

But what really surprised me was how delicious the meals are. If I'm honest I wasn't expecting them to be very appetising. At first I thought the breakfast Nut Clusters portion looked tiny, until I found out that I could have it with creamy yoghurt and berries - delicious! My new breakfast regime was certainly no hardship for me.

I would like to keep losing a few more pounds so I'm going to stick with The Go Lower Maintenance Plan. I've no desire to start eating loads of bread and potatoes again, so it should be easy. Cutting them out of my diet has given me so much more energy. I used to have a real problem climbing up and down the stairs at my daughter's house but nowadays I can skip up and down them easily with no huffing and puffing!

Everyone has been telling me how wonderful I look, even my normally reticent son-in-law. The other day he leaned over to me and said very quietly in my ear:

“How does it feel to be the slimmest woman in the room?. Now that was praise indeed!”