Ultimo tycoon Michelle Mone has suggested that donning her ladies running wear helped her to shed six stone in weight.

The 38-year-old showed off her new svelte figure in a photo shoot for Hello! magazine.

She lost the weightwhile training for a new ITV show which takes place in the Arctic.

Ms Mone said that herbal pills had helped her to shed some of the weight by increasing her metabolism.

However, she said that she only became toned and fit this year after she put on her ladies fitness clothing and trained with Celtic Football Club.

"We ran 21 miles a week and they used to give me iced baths in preparation for the new ITV1 show set in the Arctic," the mum-of-three explained.

She added that, while in the Arctic, she swam in minus-two degrees Celsius seas.

Exercise expert Nicki Waterman recently wrote in the Sun that swimming and running are great aerobic exercises that help to bring about weight loss and skim inches off the body.

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