Amanda Nkomo had managed to avoid the common pregnancy pitfall of piling on too much weight; but the 32-year-old stay-at-home mum really added the pounds after giving birth – weighing 95kg (209lb) at her heaviest and a size 18. She’s now a svelte size 8.
She initially lost 16kg (35lb) by eating smaller portion sizes – but then, as so often happens, her weight loss plateaued… until she started drinking a shot of apple cider vinegar every day; she’s now down to 52kg (114lb) – a total loss of an astonishing 43kg (95lb).
Here Amanda, who lives in Manchester with her council-worker husband
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