WHY I WILL NEVER DIET AGAIN... EVER
I HATE the word ‘fat’. I think it should be banned. So much fear and emotion is tied up in those three little letters.
It’s a word that followed me around my whole life, until the day I decided it would no longer feature in my vocabulary.
If I could go back and give my younger self some advice it would be stress less and, unless your doctor has told you to, don’t go on a diet. Do. Not. Do It.
I fought against my natural shape for so many years. I’ve done every stupid diet in the enough time to grieve.As a result, if I saw a pram in the street I would find tears rolling down my cheeks.
People are so scared to say the wrong thing when a woman suffers a miscarriage or has a stillbirth that they don’t say anything at all, and I do understand that. But everyone I’ve spoken to who has lost a baby just wants to acknowledge the existence of that child.
When we go through traumatic experiences, our first instinct can be to hide ourselves away.
But the very best thing you can do is to ask for help and be open with those closest to you.
Steve and I didn’t manage to have another baby, but I know I am very blessed. I’ve interviewed world and I must have gained and lost the equivalent of my own body weight 10 times.
Now, I no longer own scales and I couldn’t tell you exactly how much I weigh, and that’s liberating. If my jeans start feeling a bit tight, I know I’ve been eating too much and not exercising enough, but I don’t let it stress me out. I just go for a longer walk and cut out some treats for a bit.
Find where your body wants to be so you don’t spend the next decades in a cycle of
Sdespair. If you eat too much and don’t do any exercise, you are going to put on weight. Really, it’s not rocket science.
Ever since I gave up dieting, my body has evened out. I no longer count grams or calories.
I eat a balanced diet with plenty of fruit, vegetables and protein.
If I’m not hungry, I don’t eat for the sake of it. That’s the miracle cure. You don’t have to live on mung beans and quinoa to be healthy, or starve yourself to be slim.
many women who weren’t able to have a child at all, and some who’ve suffered multiple miscarriages, so I’m very grateful.
OMETIMES you need to make a conscious effort when you get up each day to think to yourself: “I’m not going to be defined by negative thoughts.” Hold on to that and it becomes your reality. Sometimes you can shrug off negative thoughts – other times they will hit you like a ton of bricks. Of course some of us are more sensitive than others.
I wasn’t particularly confident growing up. I was bullied at school and felt incredibly out of place as a result. It started when I was about seven or eight. Even though the area of Glasgow I came from was very poor, my mum still turned me out like a little princess.
She would tie my hair up in cutup bits of old tights the night before school, then take them out in the morning so I had tight ringlets.
Then she’d add bows and put me in a pink dress. She took pride in my appearance, but this get-up made me stand out. I may as well have gone around with a sign on my back saying “kick me”.
I got picked on because people thought I was posh, but it was only because my dad worked so hard that we were able to buy decent clothes and a home that my mum turned into a little palace.
The fact I could read and write early and was a bit of a swot didn’t help, so I used to dumb myself down and refuse to put my hand up in class and answer questions,.
The bullying got so bad I told my parents, which of course I should