A city worker has lost half her bodyweight after she hit 21 stone after becoming addicted to eating cheese . Hannah Carter , 23 , started to put on weight when she got her first job aged 16 and survived on an unhealthy diet of fizzy drinks , crisps , chocolate and ready meals . The 5ft 4in brunette , from Sutton , West Sussex , says she would grate a block of cheddar on top of every meal - including pasta takeaways and pizza . Hannah Carter has lost half her bodyweight after a neighbour asked if she was pregnant . Hannah hit 21st at her heaviest after consuming cheese with every single meal . At her heaviest , Hannah would munch through two 500g slabs of cheese a week , which equates to a 52kg a year - more than 8st . She would munch through two 500g slabs a week , which equates to a 52kg a year - more than eight stone in weight . Hannah also consumed more than 120 gallons of coke , 728 packets of crisps and seven stone of ice-cream a year at the height of her food addiction . It was n't until a neighbour asked if she was pregnant that Hannah decided it was time to make a change . The account manager has now dropped down to 10st 7lb and shed four dress sizes in just over a year . Hannah would have cheese on every single meal and add grated cheese onto her four takeaways a week . It was n't until a neighbour asked if she was pregnant , left , that Hannah decided it was time to make a change and dropped down to 10st 7lb , right , and shed four dress sizes in just over a year . Hannah , from Sutton , West Sussex , said : ' I had low self-esteem and I was extremely self-conscious . I got some comments made to me . 'Somebody once asked if I was pregnant . It was just before Christmas and I was walking up to my flat and somebody said congratulations on the baby . Hannah says she does n't think she had realised how big she 'd become but she swapped cheese and unhealthy snacks for vegetables and nuts and slimmed down to a svelte size 12 . Hannah would buy a pasta carbonara and then grate more cheese on top , going through two blocks a week . ' I had cheese on every single meal . I would have four takeaways a week and I would grate cheese on all of them . ' I would get one of those pasta carbonara meals and then grate more cheese on top . I would say I went through about two blocks a week . ' I said to myself I want to be half of myself and that did n't really become a reality until I got down to about 14st . ' I do n't think I had realised how big I had become . It is only looking back now that I know how fat I was . ' Hannah has always refused surgery and said she wants to get the perfect body herself . Hannah says her new lifestyle and figure seems surreal , especially when she buys size 12 clothes . Breakfast : Cereal bar/fry-up and hot chocolate . Lunch : Panini , crisps , coke and chocolate . Dinner : Ready meal with grated cheese and a full garlic bread . Evening snack : Chocolate bar or ice cream . Breakfast : Porridge and blueberries . Morning snack : Cucumber sticks . Lunch : Turkey breast salad . Afternoon snack : Cashew nuts . Dinner : Grilled chicken , vegetables and rice . Hannah now snacks on cucumber sticks and cashew nuts after cutting out fatty treats from her diet . She also now goes on a run every day and has taken up weight training in the gym to rid herself of her saggy skin . But the glamorous brunette has always refused surgery and said she wants to get the perfect body herself . Hannah , who lives with her boyfriend , added : ' I have a lot of saggy skin , but I just look at it as evidence of what I have achieved . 'It reminds me of what I do every day . If I wanted to go for surgery then I could have taken the easy way out from the beginning and got a gastric band . 'It seems surreal now to think that I 've lost this much weight . To go into a shop and buy a size 12 seems really weird to me . '
Hannah Carter survived on a diet of fizzy drinks , crisps and ready meals . Would grate cheese onto every meal , consuming 20 blocks a week . Neighbour asked her if she was pregnant , which triggered weightloss . Dropped from 21st to 10st 7lb and size two to size 12 in a year .