Don’t knock Scarlett’s DVD

SPARE TV star Scarlett Moffatt from the finger-pointing and tut-tutting.

She may have attended a boot camp to shed a phenomenal three stones before bringing out a fitness DVD. She may have slogged her guts off – literally – for five hellish months and subsisted on a diet of just 700 meagre calories a day. What’s the problem?

She did cut down her food intake. She did run, jump, pump iron and slog until her weight drastically reduced. She didn’t employ a body double and pretend.

Any sane purchaser of an exercise video knows you can’t expect the product to work in isolation. If you zip through the routine then subside on to the sofa with a trifle you won’t lose an ounce.

The DVD is intended to be part of a fitness and weight loss regime, not a miracle cure. As I have often had to confess, if only I had faithfully worked out to my own lamented video (circa 2001) titled If I Can, You Can, I’d be sylphlike.