Slimmer is now an instructor

3:31pm Sunday 28th October 2007

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SINCE her late teens, Christine Cox, now 51, has had a destructive relationship with food.

It even caused her to have bouts of bulimia when she would binge eat and then make herself sick or take laxatives.

Despite trying a number of faddish diets, slimming clubs and diet pills, Christine found that nothing worked long term and restricting what she ate would make her cravings for high-fat food even worse.

After joining a diet club in Harpenden in August 2005, Christine - who now weighs 9st - succeeded in losing two stone to become a toned and shapely size 8-10.

Christine said: "My birthday was coming up and I couldn't bear the thought of being fat and 50."

She said she was shocked to see photographs from a trip to Singapore, New Zealand and the South Pacific Islands to celebrate her 25th wedding anniversary adding: "I was horrified to see how huge my legs, hips and bum had become."

Christine decided to try a local Salsa class she had seen advertised but it wasn't until she turned up on the night, that she realised it was part of a Rosemary Conley class. "As I went through the door it dawned on me that it was a slimming club. I thought, Oh, no. I can't do this'."

Fortunately for Christine, she reluctantly stayed and got weighed. "I can honestly say I have never looked back. I really enjoyed the workout and everyone there was very friendly. The principles of low-fat eating seemed so sound and I realised it wasn't yet another faddish diet but a whole new way of looking at food."

In fact, Christine enjoyed the exercise sessions so much she has now qualified as an exercise to music instructor and teaches one Rosemary Conley Diet and Fitness class a week.