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Slimmer winners

Karen won a slimming title while being bulimic
Champion slimmers are struggling to manage their weight after their award-winning achievements, Real Story has learned.
An investigation into the weight loss habits of 70 slimmers showed that less than half had kept their weight off, with the remainder being overweight, obese or severely obese.

Moreover, eight out of the 70 demonstrated indications of bulimia and 10 showed signs of Binge Eating Disorder.

Fifty-one of them either binged or used compensatory behaviour in the past month, such as taking water tablets/laxatives and hard exercise.

Nearly three quarters of the champion slimmers had binged at least once - with some binging up to eight times - in the past month.

One slimmer tells the programme: "All the time that I was at 'Slimming World', I was bulimic.


I just feel such a failure. You don't have to tell me, because I feel embarrassed and ashamed that I have put it on

A champion slimmer

"So I was coming home bingeing and throwing it up and yet I managed to become a Slimmer of the Year for Yorkshire."


Weight regained

Paula Hunt, an independent dietician for Weight Watchers, says: "Even if people are successful in losing weight, by two and certainly by five years, almost all of that weight is regained."


One slimmer tells Real Story: "I just feel such a failure. You don't have to tell me, because I feel embarrassed and ashamed that I have put it on."

Julia Buckroyd, director of the University of Hertfordshire's obesity and eating research unit, says diet and exercise will not result in maintained weight loss and that food is being used to manage slimmers' emotional lives.

Over one-third of the 70 champion slimmers who took part in the Real Story questionnaire, had undergone one or more major weight loss episodes prior to the awarding-winning one and were considered "yo-yo" dieters.

Professor Kopelman, of the University of East Anglia, says there is an association with increasing rates of heart disease in people whose weight has fluctuated earlier on in their life.


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Real Story: BBC One, Monday, 24 July, at 1930 BST.