A mum who said she was horrified that she weighed two stone more than her husband now looks unrecognisable after her weight loss.

Lisa Lewis, from Aintree, said she never told her partner how much she weighed but knew it was more than him.

The 45-year-old said she got to the point where she "looked in the mirror" and "didn't like" what she saw.

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But it was during lockdown that the tax accountant decided to do something about and she shed an incredible six stone.

At her heaviest the mum-of-two tipped the scales at 18 stone but has now gone to 12 stone, and dropped four dress sizes from a size 20 to 12.

Lisa said: “My eldest son Alex weighs 6st, and he asked me how much I’d lost?’. It was then I realised I’d lost the weight of my 10-year-old child.

“I’d effectively been carrying him around on my back.”

Lisa Lewis, from Aintree, before her weight loss
Lisa Lewis, from Aintree, before her weight loss

Lisa, who’s 5ft 9in, had never had a problem with her weight growing up but ‘contentment’ as she got older saw the pounds start to add up.

She said: “I never felt like I was particularly slim, but I was okay.

“I have known my husband, Andy, for 27 years and I think it was from then I started to put the weight on, meals out, going out drinking – chips on the way home – and just being happy and content.

“I can’t even blame the kids. I actually lost a stone each time I was pregnant rather than putting it on.

“But in my 20s and 30s I started to put weight on and, although I joined other slimming clubs, I’d lose a couple of stones and then put it straight back on, and more.”

Lisa Lewis, from Aintree, after her weight loss
Lisa Lewis, from Aintree, after her weight loss

It was after Lisa joined Slimming World in January last year that she lost those same couple of stones, and then another, and another.

“There was no lightbulb moment, no one thing that horrified me, but I had got to the point where I looked in the mirror and I didn’t like what I saw.

“I was fat and horrible, and I hated it. I looked pregnant and I wasn’t. I’d been saying to myself for a while that I needed to get a grip and sort myself out.”

Lisa’s daily diet wasn’t the worst, but she’d have a croissant or two brioche buns for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch with white bread or a tuna panini, or a jacket potato with tuna and full-fat mayo and, for tea, it would be a ready-made meal.

The mum said: “When the kids had gone to bed, Andy and I would put something in the oven that was quick, like frozen chicken Kiev with chips.

"It wasn’t that I was eating loads or snacking in between, but I was eating a lot of bread and processed, convenience foods.

"It was a combination of bad habits.

“And I did no exercise because I felt I couldn’t. Even walking up the stairs at 18 stones made me feel like an old woman.

“I decided that 2020 was the year I was going to do something about it and I did and, far from stopping me, lockdown helped.

"Even though I was always busy and had to fit my hours in for work – and home-schooling wasn’t easy – I was able to plan and get myself organised.

“I joined Slimming World at the Hope Centre in Aintree with Victoria Graham on January 13.

"By the time we went into the first lockdown I’d lost 1 ½ stones, between March and August I’d lost another two, and then the rest.

“We dusted off the bikes and started going cycling as a family which was lovely and, in September when the kids went back to school, I’d often walk instead of jumping in the car.

Lisa Lewis, from Aintree, after her weight loss
Lisa Lewis, from Aintree, after her weight loss

"The kids are used to walking to school now and they know that if I’m working from home and it’s not raining, we’ll be walking.

“Other mums at the school gates who hadn’t seen me for a while were doing a double-take.

“And it’s the same after going back to the office – there’s been a few shocked faces from colleagues who haven’t seen me for 18 months and people saying I look amazing.”

Lisa said she feels fitter, happier and healthier – and Lisa admits she’s delighted.

She said: “When my kids ask what I’ve lost and go ‘wow’, and that makes me feel so, so proud.”

For breakfast Lisa now has cereal, for lunch a jacket potato, scrambled eggs or chilli or Bolognese left over from the night before.

For tea, Lisa's meals include Thai green chicken, Chinese chicken and broccoli, or low-fat burgers and kebabs – always fresh and homemade with nothing processed.

Lisa added: “We go out for walks as a family so I feel so much fitter and healthier.

"I jog up the stairs now – because I can – and I’ve even got a rowing machine so when the weather’s not that nice I can still exercise.

“And, for the first time in a long time, when I look in the mirror, I like what I see.”