'Mortified' mum loses 8.5st after being too big to go on fairground ride at 21st

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Slimming World the next day.She’s now lost eight inches from her bust, 11 from her hips and 25 off her belly.At her heaviest, Karen weighed 21st 7lb, but now she clocks in at a slim 13st 1lb and has dropped six dress sizes from a 24 to 12.She commented: “My little girl was four at the time and she wanted to go on the ride.“I wasn't going to go on, but the guy said do you want to go on it with her as they had adult seats so I said, ‘OK, yeah’.“The bar comes down and they've got a seat belt buckle between your legs and it wouldn't close.

The ride couldn't start because it wouldn't buckle.”Karen, a director at her specialist cleaning firm, gained weight initially after having her children.But, the incident in Blackpool in 2008 spurred her on to lose the weight.She dropped 3st on Slimming World’s food optimisation plan, but in 2014 found she couldn’t reach the pedals of her new car properly.Karen said: “We went back the next year and I made a point of riding the ride and it felt absolutely amazing.“I weighed about 17st, but I knew I could fit on the ride.“I was in and out the doors of Slimming World for a few years and in 2014 we bought a new car and I could barely reach the pedals, I wasn't comfortable at all.”Karen’s weight yo-yo’ed for a few years, but at the beginning of lockdown in 2020 she decide to join virtual Slimming World meetings.And, by may 2021 she had dropped 7st 7lb.She said: “I looked at myself in the mirror and I said to myself 'get a grip' and I got absolutely stuck in.“I'd started power walking and I had been challenged to do a couch to 5k in 2018.

In April 2019, I ran my first 5K, it took me 45 minutes.“All through lockdown I kept up my running every day. The hour's exercise we were allowed outside I.