With three youngsters under three, full-time mum Emma Smith found a novel way of exercising - running up and down her garden path. The 33-year-old was determined to shift the weight and after joining Slimming World has shed an incredible five and a half stone in just eight months.

The Stockton mum realised she needed to move more to help with her weight and said: "I used to get the girls to bed and then run up and down the garden path." As her weight started to drop, Emma became more energised and walks and runs everywhere - she even recently completed the Race for Life, something which she had never contemplated before.

Emma said she had struggled with her weight all of her life and had always been overweight, doing a lot of losing a bit of weight then putting it back on. However, aft

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