Mum is only 10 kilos overweight but because she is short it looks just as bad as my 20.

She has been on a wide range of diets, WW, Easy slim even a doozy out of Slimming magazine, you were given a certain amount of food to eat, the more weight you wanted to lose, the more days you stretched that food over, I think she was eating 600cal when she stretched it over the maximum days.

As for me I was just as bad, I tried a Limmits diet. For a week I ate 3 meals a day consisting of Limmits biscuits and rode 5 kilometres on my bike each day. I lost 5 kilos, I also came close to fainting a few times. The weight went straight back on.

Cheryl