New Zealand

Name: Sue Batch Age: 54 Height: 177cm Start size: 16-18 Current size: 12 Total weight loss: 14kg When Sue Batch was given Cambridge Weight Plan to follow on Channel 4’s How to Lose Weight Well programme (episode 3), she expected to follow a diet of shakes only. 16 weeks later and almost 20 kg lighter, 54-year-old Sue was delighted with the meals she could eat on Cambridge Weight Plan… “When my friend, Elaine Bodys, told me she’d put us both forward for Channel 4’s How to Lose

Name: Amelia Woolgar Age: 25 Height: 157cm Start weight: 77kg Current weight: 53kg “My mum and I have both always battled with our weight. I have been constantly yo-yoing since I met my new husband, Stuart, in May 2012. “We began spending a lot of time together and he cooked for me a lot. I appreciated this greatly as the meals were delicious but didn’t really notice that the portion sizes were huge. “This was fine for him, he was active and went to the gym very regularly and

Name: Ellie Killeen Age: 25 Height: 170cm Total weight loss: 35.8kg “Last year I was the heaviest I have ever been – 102.4kg. I was so ashamed of how I looked that I would avoid any social events. I didn’t even like people coming to my house because I would always be in my pyjamas; they were the only clothes that fitted me. “My turning point came when I had to buy a size 24 rain mac before my snowboarding holiday – I vowed that enough was enough. “I tried loads of other diets

Name: Keri Latus Age: 28 Height: 157.4cm Start weight: 76.2kg Current weight: 67.5kg Total weight loss: 8.7kg Keri Latus joined the #CWP60Day Challenge to shift a couple of pounds before she went on her friend’s hen do abroad. To track her progress, Keri kept a video diary which we shared on our social media. Here’s an overview of how she got on: Week 1: “The first day was hard at times, especially when work brings you chocolates. But I didn’t have any and I felt very positiv

Name: Pia Gretton-Ost Age: 29 Height: 160 cm Start weight: 84kg Current weight: 66kg Total weight loss: 18kg Serial dieter, Pia, had tried many different weight-loss methods before her GP warned her she was at risk of diabetes if she didn’t slim down. So when her partner, Andy, proposed she knew something had to be done. “My weight has always fluctuated and I used excessive exercise to keep it in check, not paying any attention to what I was eating. “I was known as ‘the dustb

Name: Corie Brooks Age: 31 Height: 167.6 cm Start weight: 105.6 kg Current weight: 69.8kg After suffering a tragic loss, and gaining weight during pregnancy, struggled with her weight for years and it was affecting every aspect of her life. Then, last year, she decided to take control. “I didn’t struggle with my weight until I became pregnant with my son, six years ago. My mum passed away only a few weeks before I found out I was pregnant and I really struggled with this. I w

Name: Paul Lomas Age: 64 Height: 178 cm Start size: XXL Current size: M Total weight loss: 38Kg After a priest lost 38kg in weight, parishioners of a church in Stockport, England thought they had a new priest… When Roman Catholic priest Father Paul Lomas decided to take part in a diet for the BBC’s The Big Crash Diet Experiment, he had many health concerns. The 64-year-old priest said: “I was 125.6kg, with a BMI of 42.5, my health wasn’t great and I had nothing to lose by giv

Name: Samantha Woolnough Age: 25 Height: 175 cm Start weight: 89kg Current weight: 75kg Plus-size model Samantha Woolnough talks about her weight-loss journey and gives some top tips for confidence in front of the camera… “I have always struggled with weight (haven’t we all?) but I was never huge – just large/big boned or overweight, making it easier to always feel like there wasn’t a problem. In fact, my career was based around me being curvy . . . I was a plus-size model.

Finalist, Slimmer of the Year 2018 Australia Weight Loss: 71.1 kg Consultant: Catherine Hughes I am a primary music teacher in Brisbane. At my biggest, I was literally and figuratively weighed down and I had given up hope. I had tried many other weight loss plans and even the lemon and soup diet. Some diets had more success than others, but I never managed to keep the weight off. After getting married, I quickly piled on 10-15kgs. I was in denial and stuck in a horrible, end

Age: 43 Height: 165 cm Start weight: 122kg Current weight: 64.8kg Total loss: 57.1kg “During my first marriage I suffered domestic violence. I had 11 miscarriages during that time and I ended up eating to get me through. “My second husband was the love of my life, I adored him and we had such a perfect marriage and two beautiful children. Then one day my perfect life came crumbling down. My wonderful husband suffered a massive heart attack and died. I was completely devastat

Age: 23 Height: 164 cm Start weight: 91kg Current weight: 60kg Total loss: 31kg “Even as a child, I was always ‘the chubby one’ and blamed it on just ‘puppy fat’ or being ‘big boned’. I came to accept that being overweight was just a part of my identity. I just thought it was something I could not change or control. “On top of my weight issues, during puberty, I had an obscure deformity which meant one side of my chest wasn’t developing as much as the other. In secondary scho

Age: 54 Height: 183 cm Start weight: 133.7 kg Current weight: 89 kg Total lost: 46.6 kg MAINTAINER WINNER UK “I began putting weight on 21 years ago when I got married. Pure contentment and happy married life meant we would eat whenever and whatever we wanted. However, I put most of my weight on when I was diagnosed with breast cancer in October 2010. I was rushed into having a mastectomy two months later in the December and, once I recovered from the operation, I began a cou

Age: 50 Height: 162.5 cm Start size: 24/26 Current size: 14/16 “When I was younger, I never really saw myself as massively overweight. But looking back I realised there were so many incidents where my weight was an issue. One memory that sticks in my mind is when my mum took me to the circus when I was nine. I won a prize at the raffle and I had to collect it off one of the clowns who then put me on a donkey. The clown struggled to pick me up and huffed ‘woah, she’s a big one