A Slimming World consultant from Immingham has lost a life-changing 4st 2lbs in less than a year.
Nikki Guest, 32, first became a consultant of the Immingham group, based at the Christian Centre on Pelham Road, in 2018. Fast forward four years, and Nikki looks after an incredible 90 members, helping them on their own weight loss journeys.
After initially losing weight when she joined the group in 2017, Nikki said it was the Covid-19 lockdowns that saw her falling back to her “old ways” of eating and her relationship with food “spiralled out of control”.
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She said it was a conversation with her husband and parents last summer in which she admitted she wasn’t happy with her weight which spurred her back into action. Since September, she has dropped from a size 20 to a size 12-14 and lost more than 4st.
Nikki, a mum-of-two, told Grimsby Live: “When I first started, it was in May 2017, and I only needed to lose two-and-a-half stone, because I was getting married at the time. Fast forward six months and I’d lost the weight, got married, had my honeymoon, had Christmas, and all of a sudden I just threw myself into becoming a Consultant. All Consultants that we have up and down the country are member-based, which I always thought was quite a nice thing, because you’ve got someone there who can relate to members.
Nikki pictured before her weight loss (Image: Nikki Guest)
“So from 2018, I’ve been a Consultant, and I kind of put myself on the back burner a little bit. I was so focused on spreading the word in my community on how amazing Slimming World is and how much I love food optimising, that I forgot myself a little bit. Then lockdown happened, but the second one is when it heightened for me because I was spending so much time at home and the kids were at home. It just got progressively worse and I was going back to my old ways of doing things. I just wanted my old life back, I wanted to be back out in the community and I wanted the kids back at school because I didn’t want to be a teacher, I didn’t sign up for it!”
Nikki said it was a conversation that took place last summer which spurred her into action. She continued: “It took having quite a scary conversation last summer with my husband and my parents where I said, ‘I’m not happy with where I’m at, I feel like a little bit of a fraud because I’m helping people to lose weight but I’m not doing it myself’, so because I’d got that off my chest, it was like a big cloud was lifted and I knew what I needed to do.
“Because I’m a manager and consultant at Slimming World, my time is really thin, so I thought the best thing I can do is just weigh in at my own group in a morning. My dad comes every Tuesday without fail at 6.45am just to stand there for not even ten seconds while I jump on the scales. And it’s just gone from there since last September. I got my four stone award this week and me and my dad both cried.
“I’ve got about 1st 5lbs until I get to target, and I’m not in a rush to get there. I’ll get there when I get there. But with my lifestyle when it comes to food, I feel like I’m on a good level with it, and because I’m more active than I’ve ever been, they’ll work beautifully together so I’ll be able to stay where I’m at.
Nikki is on the lookout for more Consultants in the area (Image: Nikki Guest)
“It’s such a self-satisfying role to see people achieve their goals, and you’ve been there to support them every step of the way. I would do it for free. I’ve got to put the work in and make sure I’m looking after these members and put the word out, because some people still don’t know about Slimming World. It’s all worth it because I’m saving myself with my health. It was getting to the point where I was at risk of a stroke, diabetes and cancer.”
Now, Nikki is on the lookout for more people in North East Lincolnshire to become Slimming World Consultants.
She said: “We are inviting current or former members who have successfully lost weight within their local group to run a group of their very own within Grimsby. Becoming a Slimming World Consultant means you are becoming a part of a well loved and recognised brand with over 50 years experience. You could potentially make a real difference to your local community battling the rising levels of obesity.
“The role of a Consultant is both rewarding and flexible, where you can earn om average between £100-£400 a week working between 10-12 hours, with the opportunity to develop further.”
To find out more about what a Consultant role entails, contact Nikki on 07870269992.
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