HOW TO WIN THE DIET WAR
On the morning of my interview with the nutritionist Laura Thomas, I skipped breakfast. I knew I would be having a big lunch with a friend at a restaurant and that I was going to another friend’s for dinner that evening. I walked to our meeting and back, to try to clock up the recommended 10,000 steps. The day before, I ate lunch at 4pm because I’d been at meetings all day – baguette, chips and a brownie. I felt guilty about it, so to level things out, my dinner (at 10pm) was a few sad asparagus spears.
While ostensibly healthy and balanced, my eating habits, like many women’s, are led by a conscious and subconscious set of rules: counting, planning, cancelling out ‘bad’ things with ‘good’.
