Increased energy, clothes feeling looser, the little compliments that put a spring in your step…they’re known as non-scale victories (NSVs for short); those milestone moments that make losing pounds so much more than a numbers game. Take Hollie Barrett, Slimming World’s Woman of the Year 2016. For her, the best bit about losing 8st 6lbs is bounding up the stairs after her little girl, no longer too out of puff to read her a bedtime story. After losing 7st 12lbs, Karl Rowe’s golden moment was getting on his bike and cycling up the devilishly steep hill that had always defeated him.