Like Anna, I struggled with my weight for years. After being a skinny child and teenager, I piled on the weight during my last years of school and went into my twenties feeling fat, frumpy.
A career as a cookery writer and food stylist has helped me indulge in my love of food but because my kitchen is always overflowing with great things to eat, temptation is never far away.

A few years ago, I met Anna while working on the hit TV series You Are What You Eat – I put together those groaning tables of bad food. I also had the chance to work with all the contributors on the show, guiding them through the dieting process and helping them discover a whole new way of eating – and cooking.

Having been overweight myself, I became passionate about helping people lose weight. And when I met up with Anna again at the beginning of last year, we reckoned we could pool our knowledge and come up with a diet plan and recipes that really worked.

The Body Blitz Diet has worked for us and for all the people that tested it for us. It’s a brilliant kick start for anyone wanting to lose weight, and hopefully our ideas and recipes will help you continue losing the flab until you reach a weight that makes you feel happy and healthy.

And that’s what it’s all about. You don’t have to be stick thin but you deserve to feel good about yourself.

So whether you’re a size 18 and dream of fitting into size 14 jeans or you are size 14 but know that being size 12 suits you better, we have the answer.

And we’d love to hear from you. We’re not a huge, anonymous organisation. We’re real women and we care.

So, get in touch and we’ll do our best to answer your questions and queries.