A woman has shed half her body weight after undergoing a gastric sleeve op to shrink her stomach. Hali Jafari, 33, from Bristol once weighed a whopping 22st, but is now a svelte 11st and size 10. The mum-of-three forked out £11k on gastric sleeve surgery after her GP told her she had the cholesterol of a 70-year-old. Hali, a deputy manager for a cosmetic company, said: "My doctor gave me the wake up call I needed. I was slowly eating myself to death. I was in a terrible state.
THE CRAZE for mimicking the video game Streetfighter has spread to the streets of London .
STARING open-mouthed into the camera, this shocked fish looks out of place in the middle of its angry friends .
A terrified moose, trapped in a frozen lake, bobs her head above the icey water and awaits her rescue .
STRETCHING his little legs in the air, a smiley leaf-tailed gecko breaks free from his old, scaly skin .
LEAF-ing much to the imagination, this camera trickery is blooming marvellous .
HOPPING onto the scales, these adorable baby Humboldt penguins are ready for their first weigh-in .
Pic By HotSpot Media - PARROT RIDES ON THE TUBE - THIS pretty boy could be forgiven for forgetting his Oyst-aaarrrgh-card .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .
Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .
More weather chaos is heading our way, with ice and snow already hitting areas across Birmingham .