After showing off my healthy ingredients to Dad, I made my dinner.
Only, instead of using a jar to cook spag bol, I made my own sauce with tinned tomatoes and beef stock.
‘It’s tasty, Mum,’ said Rio, then 7, surprised.
Gareth nodded, too.
I’d have a small bowl of cereal or wholemeal toast with eggs for breakfast, homemade soup and fruit for lunch and something cooked from scratch for dinner.
Like lasagne or yummy Singapore noodles.
‘I’ve not even felt hungry,’ I told Dad a week later, after losing 4lb.
Week after week, I stuck to my plan, occasionally
treating myself to a chocolate bar.
By January 2020, I’d lost 5st and was size 20.
‘I’m holding my trousers up with a belt,’ I laughed to Dad when I…
