Ultimo bra company founder Michelle Mone winning lifelong weight battle

Just look at michelle Mone now!

Michelle Mone, the Scottish businesswoman who founded the Ultimo bra company has had a lifelong battle with her weight.

At one point Michelle hit 17 and a half stones and was forced to wear tent like size 22 clothes.

She admitted last week that “I was so greedy I was eating four big cakes a day. I gorged on them. I’d hide cakes and sweets in the linen cupboard and under the stairs. I was crying all the time because I hated my body and I hated myself.”

It was seeing model Rachel Hunter during a fashion photoshoot for Ultimo that Michelle decided she had to challenge her addictions and do something about her weight.

So five years ago Michelle got to grips with her problems and today she is a stunning size 10. As every woman who has ever dieted knows there are no magic solutions.

We join slimming clubs, start the latest popular diet, take out a gym membership – but it’s the daily slog of depriving yourself of treats that is the biggest challenge.

I should know. I have a ‘fat’ wardrobe and a ‘slim’ wardrobe of clothes in the varying sizes which I have been over the past decade.

It’s not too difficult to set yourself goals and shed the pounds – but it’s keeping them off that is the problem.

My weakness is chocolate. I’m always reading about celebs who advise eating one line of dark chocolate a week as a treat.

You’re kidding, I think. Who could do that? One line and I want two – and somehow the whole bar is a goner.

So you don’t have it in the house. But then a van comes round or someone gives you a box of chocs or you go to a friend’s house and she has your favourite cake.

My willpower is on the weak side. Last week it was a scone with raspberry jam and clotted cream that sent me over the edge.

So Michelle I know how hard it must have been. Well done, hiding those cakes was worth it. A look in the mirror proves it.