A Kirriemuir woman has discovered clothes shopping after losing nearly seven stones.
Diane Henderson (63) has dropped from a size 28 to a size 12 by not going on a diet.
“I am buying clothes now,” she said. “Before I was just not interested because they didn’t look anything on me because I was so fat.”
She follows a healthy eating plan but allows herself a treat every so often, but not the bucket of ice cream she used to gobble up in one go.
Diane doesn’t want to go back to outsize shopping.
“There is nothing nicer than going in to Marks and Spencer and thinking ‘I can get in to that size 12’,” she added.
She joined the classes of Gwen McCreadie in Kirriemuir after she got out of puff walking even a short distance and her cousin had a heart attack.
Diane said: “I went to the doctor because I was getting very out of breath just walking up The Roods in Kirrie to the car park. I thought: ‘This is ridiculous.’
“I went to the doctor because I thought there was something wrong with me. My blood pressure was sky high. I was 17 stone and she said: ‘You know what you have got to do.’
“That was July last year. I went back to the doctor last month and my blood pressure had gone right down to normal.”
Diane now weighs a healthy 10 stone 9lb down from 17 stones 5lb but she is not resting on her laurels. She has a treadmill in her conservatory that is regularly in use.
“It’s easy to lose weight, but it’s keeping it off that’s the difficult bit,” she said.
She got rid of her big clothes but has a picture taken on her husband Thomas’s 70th birthday in Perth. Thomas who has also been able to shed three stones is from Perth originally and his daughter Michelle Fox and his grandchildren live in the Fair City.
Gwen said her star slimmer was a “great inspiration.”
“Most of the ‘before and after’ women you see in magazines are all in their 30s,” said Gwen. “I think the message has got to go out to women when they are older losing weight is good for their health and they can look good.”