Woman who dropped SEVEN dress sizes says she used to weigh more than the scales could take

A woman who used to ‘weigh more than the scales could measure’ has dropped SEVEN dress sizes - and says she feels 40 years younger. Fiona Neilson, 64, used to suffer from heart failure and was unable to walk around her house without getting out of breath.

However, at 60 she decided she needed a new lease of life and began trying to lose weight. She struggled until she found Slimming World in October 2021 – and by June 2022 she had lost four stone and seven pounds.

Now, she’s halved her dress size – shrinking from a size 28 to a size 14 - and says she's never been happier. Fiona said: “I’m 64 and I’ve been overweight for most of my adult life. I never thought I could lose weight and be slim and happy.

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"In 2018 when I got on my doctors scales, I weighed more than the scales could take - so know I weighed more than 25 stone. It’s like I’ve lost forty years and I’m young again, I can walk and join in with things and life is completely different.

“Joining Slimming World meant it just clicked and it changed my life completely. Even if you don’t succeed the first time, keep going back and trying again.”

The retired head of business improvement, from Dumfries, Scotland, was diagnosed with heart failure in 2018. She was finding it difficult to even walk around the house and says the diagnosis came as a shock but it acted as a ‘lightbulb moment’ for her.

“In 2018 I was really seriously ill, I wasn’t far off being dead really," Fiona said. "I had heart failure but I didn’t realise and I was really shocked when I was diagnosed.

"I couldn’t get my breath and was finding it increasingly difficult to walk around the house. It was like a lightbulb