Woman who ate at least 21 microwaveable burgers a week kicks habit
A woman who binged on 21 microwaveable burgers a week has lost seven stone after kicking the dangerous habit.
Alisha-Kate Armstrong, 20, ballooned to a size 22 after giving birth to her daughter Tilly last year.
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She developed a taste for Rustler burgers – the microwaveable burgers often found in supermarkets and petrol stations – and would gorge on three a day just for lunch.
On top of that, she would have pizza, kebabs, chips and white bread for dinner, and chocolate bars as snacks.
Being so overweight left Alisha-Kate unable to take care of Tilly as well as she’d have liked, because she was too embarrassed to leave the house.
But after noticing she was out of breath after chasing after her daughter in March this year, the young mum decided to make some drastic changes.
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Cutting out the Rustler burgers helped Alisha-Kate get back in shape, and in November she finally reached her target weight of 10 stone.
‘The amount of food I was shovelling in my mouth was terrible,’ she said. ‘Looking back, I’m surprised I didn’t have a heart attack. It could have killed me.
‘Just thinking about it now physically makes me feel sick. I was just eating rubbish. Having to give up all of the takeaways was the most difficult. It was scary.’
Alisha-Kate's standard day in food
What she ate before her diet
- Breakfast: None
- Lunch: Three Rustler microwaveable burgers
- Dinner: A pizza, kebab and chips
- Snacks: Six bars of chocolate, big bag of sweets, five slices of white bread with brown sauce
- Drinks: Three cans of full-fat Coke, Red Bull every now and then.
- Daily calorie intake: Around 5,000
What she eats now
- Breakfast: Homemade breakfast muffins
- Lunch: Chicken salad
- Dinner: Homemade chips and homemade pizza
- Snacks: Fruit, mugshot noodles, some chocolate
- Drinks: Diet Coke, three litres of water a day
- Daily calorie intake: Around 2,000
Alisha-Kate said she even suffered from ‘withdrawal symptoms’ for the first few weeks after giving up junk food.
But it was all worth it – as now she’s shed the weight and is a healthy size 10, she can get her life back.
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She said: ‘I feel so much better now. I’m a completely different person – when friends see me they are so shocked.
‘I’ve gone back to college now and I’ve got so many more friends. My daughter is now going to nursery. I don’t feel restricted anymore.
‘We go to play groups together – I wouldn’t have been able to do that before.
‘It has completely changed my life, it’s been amazing.’
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