I’m always ashamed to admit how long I’ve been struggling with my weight. My mother put me on the Beverly Hills diet (which involved eating only fruit for the first ten days) when I was 11 and I’m now 57, so that’s nearly half a century.
Having tried every diet available, and still ending up a size 20, I gave up pointless regimes in my late 30s, when I wrote a book called ‘Fat, So?’, about how dieting actually makes us fat. Since then, I’ve just tried to eat healthily.
That means eschewing ultra-processed food and cooking from scratch. In my case,
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