Woman loses 11st in 16 months
A SUPER-slimming mum has gone from fatty to fitty after she lost a whopping 11
STONE in just 16 months – because she wanted to like her idol Angelina
Jolie.
Christina Staggs, 26, tipped the scales at 22st after gorging on sweets,
chocolate bars and ice cream following the birth of her second son.
But she decided to go on a diet after a stranger told her she bore an uncanny
resemblance to Hollywood beauty Angelina.
Christina joined Slimming World in April 2010 and by August this year she had
shed a staggering 11st and went from a lardy size 24 to a trim size eight.
Christina, who has three sons – Dimitris, eight, Andreas, six and two-year-old
Theo – now weighs 10st 9lbs and is regularly stopped in the street by people
who mistake her for Brad Pitt’s stunning wife.
She said: “I must admit I never really saw the resemblance myself when I was
bigger but one day I was chatting to a woman who said I looked like Angelina
Jolie.
“She said we had the same lips which was quite a compliment because Angelina
is famous for her big sexy pout.
“I thought I looked more Angelina Jelly than Jolie but the comment stuck with
me and I had always tried, and failed, to lose weight but I suddenly thought
I had a goal to aim for.
“I’ve always had a really sweet tooth and love sugary snacks.
“I’d go to the supermarket and I’d get a couple of packs of brownies, a family
size dairy milk bar, a family bar of white chocolate and I’d get some
desserts.
“I’d eat all that in one day. I’d eat loads.
“Now I’ve lost all the weight people say I am the spitting image of Angelina
which I’m quite chuffed about and my boyfriend doesn’t complain either.”
Christina, of Gosberton, Lincs, told how she struggled to find clothes that
fit her.
She said: “Every time I went shopping I couldn’t buy anything that fit and
sometimes I had to order bigger sizes.
“When I bought a size 23 I thought I didn’t want to do that anymore.
“And I used to get chest pains so I thought something had to be done.
“I lost six pounds in my first week and 19 pounds in a month so the excitement
of that spurred me to keep going.
“It’s about teaching yourself to control the impulse and the snacking.”
Christina ate three low-calorie meals a day and took her pet dog Ben for a
three-and-a-half mile walk every night.
She added: “I was too shy to go to a gym at first so I had a cross-trainer and
treadmill in my house and went on them for five minutes every morning.
“When I started losing weight I got a bit more confident and started swimming.
And when I lost six stone I got a gym membership.
“For the first couple of months I went every day but now I only go once or
twice a week.”
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