Nadina Knight, Dropped Four Dress Sizes And Became Miss Northampton, England

A beauty queen who beat the bulge and dropped four dress sizes has offered advice to others battling with their weight. Nadina Knight, 24, the newly crowned Miss Northampton, was tipping the scales at 16 stone thanks to an unhealthy diet based on fast food and alcohol before an unflattering Facebook photo persuaded her to make a change. The grim photos, taken on her 20th birthday, made her realise how much weight she had gained and a confrontation with her mother brought matters to a head.
Miss England 2012 finalist Nadina said: 'I was slim until about the age of 16, when I started to have control over my own diet, I put on a little bit of weight. Then I went to university, I had even more control over what I ate and my weight just got out of hand. 'The quantity of food and drinking I was doing was too much. It wasn't until my 20th birthday, when I saw pictures of myself on Facebook, and my mum mentioned it, that I realised I had put on so much. My mum was concerned because she is diabetic and she expressed concerns about my size.' Nadina, who has since slimmed to a petite size 8 added: 'I had been caught off guard and there was just so much of me and I think that was when I thought 'my mum is right. The first thing I did was search Google for healthy living tips. I didn't want to diet like so many of my friends had done, I just wanted to lose the weight in a healthy and sustainable way.'