BEING the best at losing wouldn’t normally help you to scoop an award yet one woman from Marlborough has done just that after being named the town’s ‘Greatest Loser’ 2018.

Winner Nicole Restel has been a member of Marlborough Slimming World group since January 2016, and has gone from 24st to 16st 3.5lbs, losing 7st 10.5lbs.

Ms Restel, 42, of Francklyn Acre, Marlborough, said: “I feel like a new woman since losing weight. I look so different that people who I haven’t seen for a while often can’t believe I’m the same person.

“I still enjoy all my favourite meals like burgers and chips and roast dinners but I’ve learned how to make small changes like using lean meat or cooking with low calorie spray instead of oil or butter.”

In Marlborough 63.8 per cent of people are so severely overweight that their health is already at risk. Julie Muirhead, who runs the group, said: “The changes we’ve seen in Marlborough are incredible.

I hope her success will inspire other people who’d like to lose weight by forming new lifestyle habits.”