Good Morning Britain presenter Ranvir Singh has revealed that ditching dangerous diets has helped her become a healthy size 10 after years of struggling with her eating.
The former Strictly Come Dancing contestant said she feels stronger than ever after ditching the fad diets that ruled her life for so many years.
‘It annoys me that for so long, we’ve been told [fitness is] about being thin. That’s so detrimental,’ she told Woman & Home magazine. ‘I’ve been thinner than I am now, but by doing an aloe vera diet for 21 days.
‘Another time, I bought diet pills over the counter of a beauty salon. I was really dehydrated and my skin was really bad, but I was thin. It was stupid.’
She added: ‘I’ve always fluctuated between a size 8 and 12, but recently I’m more regularly a 10.
‘What’s happened to my body over the past year is a by-product of plodding on with the gym and eating more mindfully. Weight doesn’t matter. Being strong does.’
Ms Singh told how she spent the last 30 years using food as an emotional crutch. She said ‘like many people, I’ve overeaten because I’ve used food as a primary emotional support, constantly in a loop of overeating and under-eating’,
Earlier this year she joined a women’s-only gym and started weight training, something she is ‘evangelical about’. She said: ‘At 48, I feel the most sure of myself. I feel more grounded.’
