Tea room chef Katrina Heaton loved her home cooking so much she couldn't help nibbling as she worked.

But temptation led to the 35-year-old mum of two's figure ballooning by five stone, to over 15 stone.

When she developed back trouble and needed pain killers to stand at her family business at The Drop Farm Tea Room at Oxenhope, she decided to take action and join Weight Watchers.

And in just 12 months, Katrina shed those extra five stones, reducing her weight to just over ten stone.

"It was all the nibbling which led to me putting on the weight. I got back problems and had to take pain killers. I got so depressed that I had to do something,'' said Katrina. She joined Lynne Ingham's Weight Watcher's group, which meets in St James's Church Hall, Cross Roads, Keighley.

"Now I love shopping for clothes. Before I was a size 22 and there was just nothing fashionable. Now I'm a size 12 or 14 and there's such a lot of great clothes I can wear,'' she said.

Katrina and her husband Andrew, 38, set up the tea room about ten years ago and run it with other members of the family.

Five years ago they extended the business and built a new kitchen. The cafe seats about 55 diners.

Katrina specialises in home-made food like soups, potato and onion pastie, roast dinners and a variety of mouth-watering puddings, like lemon Cotswold and home made fudge.

The food attracts customers from throughout the district and celebrities, such as television astrologer Russell Grant.

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