Georgia Walley, 26, said she did not leave the house for five years
10:31, 29 Sep 2025Updated 17:43, 29 Sep 2025
A woman has shed a staggering 13st after spending years consuming four packets of crisps every day – without undertaking any exercise or receiving any injections.
Georgia Walley, 26, found herself tipping the scales at 27st and battling to walk to the shops after gaining considerable weight. But her phobia of needles meant weight-loss jabs were not an option so she changed her diet instead and saw fast results.
She had already attempted numerous fad diets and weight reduction methods but found it difficult to lose the weight. Georgia would devour bags of Doritos and claims she didn’t venture outside for five years.
However, at a size 26, and after her GP informed her she needed to shed 7st to have her gallbladder removed, she chose to enrol with Slimming World, reports Derbyshire Live. She lost 9st after joining her Slimming World group by making one simple change – her diet.
Without stepping foot in a gym, she succeeded in slimming down to a size 12 simply by monitoring her food consumption more meticulously. Georgia, a transport assistant from Derby, said: “I’d been dieting for years as I’d always been big.
Georgia used to think nothing of eating several packets of crisps a day
“I was trying all different things but nothing worked for me. When I was at my biggest I didn’t leave my house for five years. I was always out of breath and I was paranoid that people were staring at me.
“When I did leave I was struggling with my breathing, I was just so lazy. I would spend all day in my room secretly eating. I woke up one day and was just sick of being this big. I had gallstones and needed my gallbladder removed.
“The doctor told me I had to lose seven stone before my surgery. I’ve always been the sort of person that thought they could do it on their own and I don’t like needles so I wouldn’t even consider the jabs.
“I’ve also heard a lot of horror stories about them. I thought if I can do it on my own with just eating, then I don’t need any injections, so I joined Slimming World in February last year.”
Georgia lost 13 stone in just over a year
Previously, Georgia would bypass breakfast entirely, instead munching on crisps and chocolate before devouring four slices of cheese on toast for lunch, followed by an enormous helping of spaghetti bolognaise for dinner.
These days, she enjoys nutritious snack bars alongside black coffee for breakfast, plant-based sausages with eggs for lunch, and then some pre-prepared chicken with egg noodles.
Georgia continued: “I wasn’t eating breakfast in the morning which I feel is a big problem, I had a big meal when I woke up later in the day. I wasn’t drinking water throughout the day. I had two meals a day but snacked in between them – I could eat four bags of crisps after each other and not think anything of it.
“It was probably Doritos for me, the blue ones. I was a proper crisp addict, but now I don’t touch them. I was into chocolate too. My problem wasn’t that I couldn’t just have one, I had to have three or four of something.
“Bread was my weakness, too, I ate bread with every meal I had. Even if I had a Sunday roast or spaghetti bolognaise, I had bread with it. Now I don’t even eat bread. Before I wouldn’t eat a tomato, a cucumber, or any fruit or veg, but now I add them into most meals.
“Most people eat such small meals but I have a treat day, and I’ll still have a chocolate bar. I use the syns system at Slimming World so that I can keep eating sweet treats. I’ve not been to the gym or exercised to lose weight. When I first started I thought I’d have to cut my meals down but you wouldn’t believe how much you can eat.”
She reveals she appears far younger nowadays and individuals are consistently stunned when she discloses that she does not work out. Georgia continued: “The biggest I’ve ever been was 27st between 2020 and 2021. It’s so weird, being this size I feel so small.
“People always have the same reaction when I tell them I don’t workout – they’re always shocked. I was losing 8 or 9lb a week which was amazing. And I’ve done this purely just changing my diet.”
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