Mum who turned into 'Christmas pudding' drops EIGHT dress sizes in one year for festive season

Christmas pudding: Briony scoffed 4,000 calories a day

 A mum who 'turned into a Christmas pudding' after gorging over the festive season has dropped a staggering EIGHT dress sizes in just one year.

Briony Russell, 36, has lost 6 stone 10lbs - the combined weight of her two children.
But the mince pie lover won't be piling the pounds back on, as she now runs marathons and sticks to a super strict diet.

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Slinky: Briony lost 6 stone 10lbs - the combined weight of her two children

"I loved Christmas pudding so much I was turning into one," she said.
At her heaviest Briony, from Banchory, Aberdeenshire, weighed 15st 6lb, and was scoffing 4,000 calories a day.
She knew things were at crisis point when her family wanted to go on a winter holiday, and she feared she would not squeeze into the ski lifts.
Briony and gas engineer manager hubby Craig, 43, piled on the stones shortly after they married.

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Achievement: Briony won Slimmer of the Year

"We would share three big carry-out meals and normal plates could not hold all the food," Briony said.
Briony turned to Scottish Slimmers and lost the weight in less than a year.
Her supreme fitness kick has netted her the Active award in their Slimmer of the Year.

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