Sherrie
18-03-2007, 07:39 AM
Hehe I have been meaning to post this one too!
HIPPO & THIGH DIET (http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/tm_headline=hippo---thigh-diet--&method=full&objectid=18736283&siteid=62484-name_page.html)
NINE women are giving themselves a constant reminder of how much weight they have lost... by adopting a baby hippo.
The dieters - who have shed more than 35 stone since joining Slimming World - are now "mum" to Venus, a a young pygmy hippo at Colchester Zoo, Essex.
Barbara Fisher of Slimming World, said: "We asked the zoo to find an animal that weighed the same we'd lost - and they came up with Venus, who is perfect."
A zoo spokesman for said: "People adopt our animals for all sorts of reasons, but this is the strangest yet."
HIPPO & THIGH DIET (http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/tm_headline=hippo---thigh-diet--&method=full&objectid=18736283&siteid=62484-name_page.html)
NINE women are giving themselves a constant reminder of how much weight they have lost... by adopting a baby hippo.
The dieters - who have shed more than 35 stone since joining Slimming World - are now "mum" to Venus, a a young pygmy hippo at Colchester Zoo, Essex.
Barbara Fisher of Slimming World, said: "We asked the zoo to find an animal that weighed the same we'd lost - and they came up with Venus, who is perfect."
A zoo spokesman for said: "People adopt our animals for all sorts of reasons, but this is the strangest yet."