I remember the very fi rst time I went on a diet, I was 10 years old and joined my mum at a local slimming group. In those days it hadn ’ t dawned on anyone that a slimming group might not be the best place to teach a 10 year old about healthy eating! Having come from a family of yo - yo dieters who loved their food and lived to eat, it seemed a perfectly natural place for me to be. I thought I was destined to be another ‘ fatty ’ in the family and so my own yo - yo dieting career began.
