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Late last year I was feeling sluggish and tired. It may have been the fact I was at the end of a hectic year, but it was clear I had to make a lifestyle change and get my energy back for 2020. I’d heard about the Dietlicious 4 Week Body Reset Program, which has been created in partnership with leading dietician Zoe Bingley-Pullin, and as someone who hasn’t had a lot of success with diets, I thought this could be the path for me.

The program aims to reset eating habits by teaching you about nutrition (via daily emails) and the importance of movement and mindfulness in overall good health. The day before I started the program I received an email with my weekly meal plan (complete with Bingley-Pullin’s recipes and shopping list), and a box arrived with 20 support meals to last me the four weeks.

As a working mum these support meals were essential – let’s face it we’re all busy

– so the option of heating up a pre-cooked healthy meal (with no side of guilt) was perfect. As Bingley-Pullin later told me: “These meals make staying on track so easy, as well as showing people what a healthy sized portion meal looks like.”

I’m no chef but I found the meals easy to cook and I used the morning emails as my daily accountability check-in, meaning I stayed on track. I really enjoyed the Pilates and strengthening sessions with trainers Olivia Crumpton and Matt Waterton and the weekly guided meditation with Bingley-Pullin.

“For me, both exercise and mindfulness are my natural antidepressants,” she says. “I wanted to create guided meditations tailored to support our key wellness topics.”

By the end of the month not only did I have more energy, I was sleeping better, and I had lost some weight. I could feel the program was working and I found it not only beneficial but motivating to know what I was putting into my body and why it was important to do so.