She Swapped a £400-a-Month Takeaway Habit for Home Cooking and Lost Over 140 Pounds
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Alice Day, 30 and 5ft 10ins, started Slimming World in 2024 weighing 20st 11lbs (132kg) and wearing a size 24. She had been spending around £100 a week on takeaways.
She swapped those takeaways for homemade "fakeaways," learning to cook proper meals from scratch for the first time, following Slimming World's Food Optimising approach.
Day lost more than 10 stone (63.5kg), reaching 10st 5½lbs. Her sciatica pain resolved, she completed her first 10K run, and she took a 30th-birthday trip to Disney World where she comfortably managed 30,000 steps a day. The money she'd previously spent on takeaways instead went toward that trip and a new wardrobe.
"I'm half the size I used to be, but the biggest change is how I feel about myself," she said, adding that healthy living "doesn't have to mean missing out."
Key takeaways
- ›Started at 20 stone 11 pounds (132kg), spending heavily on regular takeaway orders
- ›Learned to cook 'fakeaway' versions of her favorite meals instead of ordering in
- ›Lost more than 10 stone — about 140 pounds (63.5kg) — in roughly a year, and later finished a running race
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