britain's fattest teen loses 210lbs at fat camp

[Amby 490]

A girl dubbed the country's fattest teenager has lost almost 15 stone after attending a weight-loss camp in the United States.

Georgia Davis, 16, of Aberdare, South Wales, weighed 33st last August before attending the £3,600-a-month Wellspring Academy in North Carolina.

She told GMTV today that she finally like the shape of her body.

The 5ft 6ins teenager now weighs just 18.4st. Doctors had told her if she did not lose weight she could die.

‘I used to look at myself in the mirror and cry. Now I smile and say, “Yeah, I like myself”.

'I like my face and the way my body is shaped. The world is my oyster and I feel I can achieve anything.

On her return from the camp, which she attended on a special scholarship, her family was shocked by her physical transformation.

'My mum didn't recognise me at the airport.

'I had to run up and show her it was me - she just cried and cried,' she told The Sun.

The teenager, who has even beaten her Type 2 diabetes thanks to her weight loss, will return to the camp later this year in a bid to get her weight to 12st.

She admitted she gained weight when she started comfort eating after the death of her father.

She said: 'I'd eat to comfort myself and afterwards I'd feel worse and I'd eat again.'

She told GMTV the regime in the camp helped her lose weight.

She said: 'I loved the people and the way they treated you.

'They treated us as people and we did all the exercise and it's actually fun.'

She added: ‘I can’t wait to show off the new me to my old friends and do the things I’ve always wanted to do with them – bowling, shopping, normal stuff.

'I’m not really ready to think about boys but if someone asks me out, that’s cool.’

At the age of 15, Georgia's doctors were so concerned about her weight that they put her life expectancy at 20, but just one year on, this has leapt to 80.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-...S-fat-camp.html

few more pics on link

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I guess there are health benefits to losing that much weight - but still... 18st 4 (256 lbs) isn't exactly a "healthy" weight.

Edited June 23, 2009 by Private Pike

[faryan 4]

wow, great job! glad she got rid of the diabetes too slowly but surely...

[Peikko 1,575]

Which is presumably why she wants to go back and lose another 6 stones

I say well done...I just hope that she has a life strategy in place. It would be devastating for someone in this position to start putting on weight again now she is out of that strict environment.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Aye - it would be at that.

[Amby 490]

I"m curious just how stritch those places are. Obviously that's a really massive achievement and one to be proud of but she will have to be very disciplined to keep the weight off.

[mawilson 2,133]

I"m curious just how stritch those places are. Obviously that's a really massive achievement and one to be proud of but she will have to be very disciplined to keep the weight off.

Pretty stritch.

[Peikko 1,575]

And strict too. I would imagine that there was a combination of excercise and healthy, portioned meals with no access to temptation. It's all very well to have modified one's taste buds (as I am sure she has) but unless the whole family are ready to embrace this new lifestyle, it's going to be very, very hard to keep it going. Still, I hope she does it, and I hope the camp gave her strategies to cope in the 'outside' world. She could do worse than have Amby's cucumber salad in the fridge for those 'I need a snack' moments

[mawilson 2,133]

And strict too.

I assume that's what Amber meant, since "stritch" is not a word

[Amby 490]

And strict too.

I assume that's what Amber meant, since "stritch" is not a word

"geezus" that was bad. I don't know ####### I was thinking. I'm really sick and high on cough syrup and decongestants.

[Peikko 1,575]

Of course

And strict too.

I assume that's what Amber meant, since "stritch" is not a word

"geezus" that was bad. I don't know ####### I was thinking. I'm really sick and high on cough syrup and decongestants.

. Get better soon!

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

And strict too. I would imagine that there was a combination of excercise and healthy, portioned meals with no access to temptation. It's all very well to have modified one's taste buds (as I am sure she has) but unless the whole family are ready to embrace this new lifestyle, it's going to be very, very hard to keep it going. Still, I hope she does it, and I hope the camp gave her strategies to cope in the 'outside' world. She could do worse than have Amby's cucumber salad in the fridge for those 'I need a snack' moments

Well it sounds better than "Fat Fighters"