All eyes in the Carrignavar area were on local woman Deirdre O'Donovan when the new series of Operation Transformation aired on RTE on Wednesday evening.

As one of the six team leaders in the popular show's seventh series, Deirdre was interviewed about her reasons for wanting to lose weight. She'll now embark on a diet and exercise regime required to help her drop from her present weight of nearly 19 stone to 11 stone - the weight she was when she married her childhood sweetheart John seven years ago. The show will chart her and the other leaders progress and the leaders will also be interviewed regularly on the John Murray radio show on RTE 1.

The bubbly and outgoing mother-of-two works as a part-time night care assistant at Mercy Hospital in Cork. Not being able to do up her seat belt on an airplane was the catalyst for Deirdre to do something about her weight gain. Shortly afterward that experience she heard the leaders from last year's show speaking about their weight loss and, she says, "it was like a lightbulb coming on."

Deirdre will celebrate her 30th birthday at the end of January and would love to regain her figure in time for it. Even more, she says, she wants to make real and lasting lifestyle changes that'll ensure she doesn't put the weight back on.

The series began on Tuesday evening and will be broadcast every Tuesday and Wednesday night for eight weeks, airing on RTE 1 at 8.30 pm.

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