“I’ve regained my waist!”

SOMETIMES IT TAKES A SHOCK TO spur you into action. Visiting my beloved parents after lockdown for the first time in a while, my 91-year-old Dad’s first reaction when seeing me walk down the garden path, was: ‘Goodness Julia, you’re bigger than you’ve ever been!’.

I laughed it off, but those words stung and, when I went home, I weighed myself and found –