Low fat, low calorie Weight loss: 9lb

NATASHA MOCKETT, 39, is a chief financial officer and lives in Hampshire with her husband Nick, 40, a finance manager and their two children aged four and two.

MY RESULTS indicated that if I eat more food than my body needs it will store the excess calories as fat, so I was given a low calorie, low fat diet.

I also have the variation of the ADIPOQ gene which reduces levels of the fat burning hormone, so I needed to cut out saturated fat and up the quantities of ‘good’ fats omega-3 and omega-6 by eating oily fish, avocado, walnuts and seeds.

I stuck rigidly to the recommendation that I eat 1,300 calories a day made up of 60 per cent carbs and 20 per cent each of protein and fat.

The weight loss was slow — it took four weeks to lose 5lbs. But when I switched the recommended four slices of bread for other healthy carbs the weight began to fall off. I managed to drop down to 10st 1lb, but I lost track on a recent holiday and 3lb crept back on.

I’m staggered at my soaring energy levels, clarity of thought and how I’ve finally stopped obsessing over food. I reckon I’ve finally cracked this weight loss lark by developing new habits for life.