Two years ago I made a video with my Five Basic Diet Tips. The tips were just common sense, really; eating fresh, unprocessed food, eating when you’re hungry and stopping when full, that kind of thing. They weren’t diet tips in the “dieting” sense (I’m definitely not a dieting person), more the “healthy attitude to eating” way – if you want to watch the video then you can find it here. My basic diet tips have seen me through most of my adult life – the years, I should say, when I have made the majority of my income from modelling, a job that has required me to keep my body reasonably lean and trim.
I’ve never struggled to keep my diet on the healthier side; of course I’ve had bad days, but on the whole I’ve always enjoyed fresh, good food and haven’t been particularly partial to junk or quick-fix, empty-calorie stuff. Until, that is, I reached the last few months of my pregnancy. I don’t know whether it was pregnancy hormone-related or just because I was large and bored and couldn’t be bothered to prepare any lengthy meals or snacks, but I found myself making terrible choices. No, scrap that – choices makes it sound as though I was deliberating between healthy stuff and what I was going for: I  found myself making a bee-line straight for the ice lollies, cans of coke, Haribo Tangfastics and crisp sandwiches. Oh, and takeaways. Not all the time, but often enough for it to...