Posted on 8th Sep
A Slimming World consultant who runs groups in Mansfield Woodhouse is hitting the top when it comes to the number of people attending her groups.
Wray Annable became a Slimming World consultant in July 2019, taking over the 8.30am Saturday group at Sherwood Colliery Welfare Centre, on Dunsil Road.
She has since added 7am, 10am and, lastly, a smaller, quieter group at 11.30am, all helping people wanting to change their lifestyles and lose weight.
Slimming World, which was founded in Alfreton by Mansfield woman Margaret Miles-Bramwell, has recently restarted its Super League of consultants, charting how its groups across the UK and Cyprus are doing.
It’s now been confirmed that with more than 230 regular attendees, Wray had the top slot for the highest amount of members attending a consultant’s groups for June.
Wray also has around 40 members weekly who attend free because they have reached their dream target weight.
“It is such a supportive company,” she said, “and that includes Margaret herself.
“But more than that, it is changing lives. For me, it is seeing the members and their successes that never fails to amaze me and drives me to do what I do.”
One of Wray’s members is 58-year-old Sue Ratcliffe, of Mansfield. She joined Slimming World on the day that Wray took over the Saturday morning group and since then she has lost 7.5 stones and is maintaining her personal target weight.
She said: “I’d lost some weight before joining, but I had hit a standstill and my weight was going up. My daughter said I should go along and so I did. Wray is brilliant, and she is more than a consultant, she is a friend.
“There’s no judgment and with Slimming World’s Image Therapy and Wray’s support I have learned about myself and the psychology of losing weight.”
Sue has a number of health conditions, including having part of her lungs removed in 2016, because of lung cancer.
When her parents died within a few months of each other, she turned to food for comfort.
Sue reached 21.5 stones at her heaviest, and was told she couldn’t have corrective surgery for an issue caused during previous surgery until she lost weight.
Her GP put her forward for gastric surgery to help her lose the weight, but Sue was determined to succeed by herself rather than undergo another operation. Now, after losing 7.5 stones she is able to have the surgery.
To find out more about Wray’s groups and others available in the area, visit https://www.slimmingworld.co.uk.
Wray is pictured with Sue, who has also shared her ‘before’ photo too.
