Life’s sweeter for sugar-free Linda

LINDA Robson enjoys the lighter side of life as she relaxes by the pool on a sun lounger, having shed 2st 7lb by following a sugar-free diet. The Loose Women panellist, 60, has dropped from a size 16-18 to a 12 and credits cutting out alcohol as the secret to her success – boosted by intensive workouts at Barry’s Bootcamp gyms. Linda posted a series of pictures on Instagram while enjoying a family holiday in Marbella, on the Costa del Sol in southern Spain. The Birds of a Feather actress previously discovered she had been eating the equivalent of 100 doughnuts in sugar every month. Doctors had warned the star that her lifestyle could make her susceptible to diabetes, so she decided to go sugar-free and teetotal in January last year. “It worried me,” she said at the time. In September, Linda said of her booze ban: “It’s much easier now, my husband made me a risotto the other day and put a whole glass of white wine in it. I couldn’t eat it, it tasted too much of the wine.” The actress, on holiday with her children Louis, 24, and Bobbie, 20, posted they were enjoying “nice massages and good healthy food” on their Easter break.