The leaders from series nine have lost a collective 11st 3.5lbs since starting on the OT Plan and they are hoping that their success will inspire others to sign up for 2017. We caught up with the leaders to find out what Operation Transformation means to them and why they want you to sign up before November 4th! 

Lucy says that her time on the show was an overall positive experience that she has carried with her.

"I wouldn't change it for the world and it's coming with me for the rest of my life!

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Lucy then revealed just how much weight she's lost since starting on the show and how she's managed to keep the weight off. 

"I'm three stone down now in total, so that's such a huge achievement for me in general, because usually when I lose weight, I just gain it back just as quick, if not even more."

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The Operation Transformation leader says that learning what her triggers to unhealthy eating were has been invaluable to her weight loss. A bad day, stress and upset would push the twenty-five year old towards unhealthy choices in the past. so how did she break the pattern?

"When you just cut that and just relax yourself, focus, centre yourself and just write down what it is you want to do and what you want to achieve, I find that's what helps me. I take it day by day, meal by meal."

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The Operation Transformation experts provide some great meal plans for their leaders (and viewers at home too!). We asked Lucy what her favourite, go-to, healthy meals are.

"From Aoife Hearne's book The Plan, I love her Turkey Red Thai Curry, so that's amazing. All of her meals really! That's the recipes that I follow, they're all really quick and easy."

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Finally, we asked Lucy what she thought of Celebrity Operation Transformation and how she thought the celebs did as leaders.

"Elaine Crowley shocked me. I... do you know what? Fair play to her, hats off, because she went through depression, so did I, so I know exactly how that was and how it can feel, how it can be, so seeing her going through that and seeing her with a smile at the end of it like, it was lovely."

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Want to try some of Aoife Hearne's recipes for yourself? Check them out here!