Braintree slimmer Elizabeth Daminger has proved she is a champion when it comes to losing weight - by shedding 8st 4lbs in 14 months.

Elizabeth, 29, has been given the Greatest Loser 2003 award by Slimming World for her amazing weight loss.She began a diet in February last year, prompted by a desire to boost her career at the call centre where she works.

Now weighing in at l2 stones nine pounds, Mrs Daminger said: "I am having to get new clothes which I do enjoy but the downside is that it costs a fortune."

Elizabeth, once a size 28 and now l6, is a regular at the Slimming World Club which meets at the Marks Farm Community Centre in Clay Pit Way, Braintree.

Published Thursday, April 24, 2003

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