A mum-of-two who was left 'mortified' after she was forced to ask for a seatbelt extender on a family holiday has lost 7st.
Adele Thornton, 40, was embarrassed when she needed help doing up her seatbelt on the way to and from a family holiday to Rome, Italy. After landing back home, she decided that enough was enough and ditched the takeaways and meal deals for healthy, home cooked meals.
She's dropped 7st and in just 14 months and now weighs a healthy 11st and has gone from a size 22 to a trim size ten. Adele said: "I can't believe how much weight I've lost - my 16-year-old daughter is horrified that people are saying I look like her now I've lost all the weight. It has thrown me back to feeling a lot younger and a lot healthier.
"I also look a lot better and now I've been able to do lots more when it comes to my fitness." Adele's stunning weight loss has given her a new lease of life and she's taken part in activities she previously wouldn't have been able to do because of her size. She recently climbed Mount Snowdon in North Wales and did the world's fastest zip line, which comes with a weight restriction.
She said: "For my 40th birthday, I was given the chance to do a zip line in Wales which is the fastest in the world. I had seen it on social media before and there was a weight restriction on it and I was too heavy, so I wouldn't have been able to do that. It was quite cool but it's horrifying so it made me conquer my fear of heights."
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Adele Thornton before and after her weight loss (Adele Thornton/SWNS)Adele lost around five stone in 2019 but put the weight back on during lockdown when she would often eat cheese boards while doing online quizzes and bingo. But after returning from the trip to the Italian capital in October 2022, she decided that she 'knew she had to get the weight off'. So joined her local Slimming World group just days after landing back in the UK and made simple lifestyle swaps.
She completely cut out having cheese and would instead cook from scratch using recipes from the group's cookbooks. The mum-of-two added: "Cheese boards are my absolute nemisis - I absolutely love cheese and wine and beige foods always has to come with it. During Covid, I would often spend time on online Kahoot quizzes or I would play Bingo with my family over on Zoom.
"I would just have sausage rolls and scotch eggs, snacky foods are just so easy to have to hand instead of having a proper meal. That all had to go so I've cooked a lot of stuff from scratch using the Slimming World app and their recipes on there. We now do a lot more clean eating and have gone back to basics instead of eating processed foods and pre-packaged foods.
"I went to Rome and just couldn't fasten my seatbelt so I had to ask the flight attendants for an extension line. It was just mortifying - it was a horrible experience and my younger daughter was asking why my seatbelt was a different colour. It was embarrassing, I just knew I had to do something about it when I got home. I knew I was going on holiday to Mexico in the following year and that I had to get the weight off."
Adele Thornton after her weight loss (Adele Thornton/SWNS)After joining Slimming World, she started running again and completed the London Marathon on April 21 in five hours and 55 minutes. Adele, of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, said: "I felt amazing - I don't think anything can prepare you for the emotions. I just felt so proud of myself but just not because I had lost the weight to be able to run. The marathon itself is such a big challenge and I ran every single step of it - I didn't walk or stop or anything. I was massively proud of myself and was just crying like a big baby."
DIET BEFORE
Breakfast: Nothing
Lunch: A meal deal from the supermarket
Tea: A takeaway
DIET NOW
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Breakfast: Overnight oats or an omelette
Lunch: Homemade soup with toast
Tea: Jacket potatoes
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