FARNWORTH mum Sue Jopson is a fraction of the woman she once was -- and she couldn't be happier!

Sue is one of Weight Watcher's star pupils, but unlike many dieters she had no idea what she weighed.

Because Sue is registered blind and made group leader, Wendy Mellett vow not to read out the scales to her at their weekly weigh-ins.

"She didn't have a clue," said Wendy.

"If I had told her at the beginning that she had six stones to lose I would never have seen her again."

"I hadn't the heart to know. I don't even own a pair of bathroom scales," said Sue.

It was Sue's sister, Judith Livesey who persuaded her to go along to her first Weight Watchers meeting at Highfield Community Centre in May last year.

She then weighed nearly 17 stone and could only fit into size 24 dresses.

"I was fed up with being fat and frumpy," she said.

As Sue only has peripheral vision and cannot read Wendy arranged for her to get all the Weight Watchers information on tape and the 42-year-old depot clerk felt the pounds drop off over the months.

"If she had a setback she would work three times as hard the next week," said Wendy.

The group leader says she will have a few tears in her eyes when Sue, of Longcauseway, Farnworth, has her weigh-in this week when she is expected to hit her target weight of 11 stone.

The mother of two grown up sons is thoroughly enjoying her new shape and has changed from being a couch potato into an action woman who walks as much as possible and even attends a weekly keep fit class.

"It is just a question of retraining yourself. But it has not been easy," admitted Sue.

To celebrate her new, slimline size 12 shape Sue plans to splash out on a new outfit.

"I'll get my husband to treat me to something," she said.

"It is nice to walk into any shop, pick up something and know it is going to fit you."