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FILE PICTURE COLLECT - Janine Furr pictured in Nottingham in Summer 2010. A super-slimming mum who weighed the same as a baby ELEPHANT has lost a whopping 14 stone after turning down a gastric band. See NTI story NTISLIM; Determined Janine Furr, 31, tipped the scales at a staggering 25st 7lbs (161.9kg) after years of gorging on takeaway food. The mum-of-three finally decided to lose weight after she got wedged in a children’s slide at a playground. Despite being offered a gastric band operation on the NHS, Janine decided to lose weight under her own steam and joined her local Weight Watchers group. Since 2011, Janine, from Nethertfield, Notts., has lost 14st 1lbs and dropped from a roly-poly size 30 to a svelte size 10.