A DARWEN mum who confessed to eating crisps for breakfast dropped six dress sizes after changing her diet.

Nicky Halliwell, of Byrom Street, said that she wanted a healthier lifestyle when her weight started to get ‘out of control’.

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Following two ectopic pregnancies, the 33-year-old admitted that her health was suffering because of her weight.

She said: “The way I was living was just unreal. I would eat crisps for breakfast and lunch.

“I was living off take-aways and it was getting out of control. I was just eating junk, I started to feel really lethargic and run down.”

The care worker said she lost five stone going from 16 to 11 stone in one year.

The mum-of-one said: “I started to blame my body because of the ectopic pregnancies although medics confirmed that it wasn’t my fault, I was completely fed up.

“But I have started to re-educate myself and I feel fantastic.

“It’s unbelievable to think I was a dress size 22 and now I am able to get into a size 10.”

On a regular basis she would order fast food from one of Darwen’s many takeaways and lived off ‘junk’.

She now cooks healthy meals and attends a boxercise class at Hollins Grove three times a week.

Mrs Halliwell said: “I plan my meals and eat healthy, nutritional snacks. I also exercise to get my metabolism going.

“I have found that boxercise to be the best fitness programme.

“I am not lazy. People probably looked at me before when I was overweight and thought I was.

“I am a carer and walk all over the place but it was just the rubbish and junk food that I was eating.

“I have re-educated myself on how to eat.

“I am cooking ahead and love the way that I look.

“I believe that you are what you eat and my good diet is reflecting in the way I look and feel, and that’s great.”