I lost 14st and bought home by giving up takeaways
A TAKEAWAY addict has dropped more than 14st allowing her to buy a house from the £6,500 she saved by ditching fast food.
Carolanne Logan and her partner Rory Chapman moved into a £165,000 three-bedroom home in October after saving the £20,000 deposit.
The 25-year-old chef shed 22 dress sizes from a 34 to a 12 by eating just 800 calories a day as she slimmed from 25st 10lb to 11st.
Carolanne, who is due to give birth to her first baby in May, said: “I felt disgusted with myself after seeing how much I was eating and all that money that was wasted on it too.
“I gorged on things like heavily buttered bread, sometimes six slices, and I was known for eating an entire cake in a single sitting as well as a whole tub of ice cream.
Mortgage
“We were putting money aside and when we finally saw the mortgage adviser, they told us we finally had enough money for the house because of our savings.
“It just feels incredible, like a dream come true. We’ve been together for 10 years and thought we would be renting for ever.”
Carolanne, of Peebles in the Scottish Borders, used to skip breakfast before gorging on junk food including family-size bags of crisps, fizzy drinks, six slices of toast, full pots of ice cream and entire cakes.
She would always eat takeaways for dinner and regularly scoffed portion sizes big enough for four people.
But she slimmed on smoothies and meal replacement bars using the Cambridge Weight Plan. She now dines on healthy home-cooked fare.
Carolanne said: “To be pregnant and know our daughter will grow up in the house and it be her family home is amazing. It’s the best thing I’ve done since losing the weight.”