ANDOVER woman Carole Nugent will be able to dress to impress this Christmas after dropping five dress sizes. Carole, of Brackenbury returned from Malaysia in 1997 shocked to realise she could no longer fit in her size 10 clothes. She had to buy size 20.

Moving to Malaysia with her husband in 1994 she had gradually put on weight because eating was an accepted way of socialising there.

She said: "Your whole life evolved around food and socialising and it was too hot to exercise."

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