You’d think having a weigh-in at a butcher’s shop, surrounded by tempting produce, wouldn’t help dieting.

Killian at 19.5 stone before participating in Operation Transformation last year.

Smoking has become the latest — and most deadly — fashion statement for women, as lung cancer now kills more women in Ireland than breast cancer.

FIVE people determined to battle the bulge were unveiled to the nation last night as the new series of Operation Transformation got under way on RTÉ.