Sian Williams, ex BBC presenter, says we should stop 'persecuting' ourselves about our weight and 'enjoy food'

Sian Williams, 52, admits she fell for fad diets and had a foul relationship with meals

Former BBC Breakfast presenter Sian Williams has stated we must always cease 'persecuting' ourselves about our food plan and weight and easily take pleasure in meals.

The 52-year-old had sworn that after years of watching her mom wrestle in opposition to the purgatory of diets, she would by no means comply with in her footsteps.

However this week the journalist admitted she finally fell into the lure of following consuming fads.

And it took her battle with breast most cancers, which claimed the lives of her aunt and mom, to re-think her relationship with meals.

Her TV producer husband Paul Woolwich, 64, had at all times shunned all of the docs' recommendation on meals however it was she who acquired most cancers, she stated.

Miss Williams, who offered BBC Breakfast for 11 years, was recognized per week after her 50th birthday, in 2014, and underwent a double mastectomy. 

The previous BBC Breakfast presenter stated it took her getting most cancers to alter the way in which she seen consuming and her weight 

However it took her oncologist telling her a glass of pink wine wouldn't kill her earlier than she would indulge. 

Diets aren't simply concerning the 'kilos we lose' but additionally the impression meals has on psychological well being, she added.

Writing within the Radio Instances, she stated: 'The very phrase reeks of a punishment regime the place pleasure doesn't get a glance in. 

It took her oncologist telling her a glass of pink wine wouldn't kill her earlier than she would indulge

'Having spent my life swearing by no means to go on a food plan, I ended up on one, as a result of I'd lower out so many meals teams. Not in a bid to drop a few pounds, however to attempt to be "more healthy".

'My husband? Effectively, I've simply requested him what he had for lunch yesterday and he stated, "Two doughnuts," which nearly sums up his perspective to wholesome consuming. I used to be all about inexperienced tea, greens and salmon – his food plan appeared filled with wine, meat and puddings. Guess who acquired most cancers? Me.'

Miss Williams, who has written a ebook about her well being scare, has beforehand stated her best worry in going through most cancers was not seeing her kids develop up. 

She has two grownup kids from a earlier marriage and two kids beneath 12 with Mr Woolwich.

Having watched her mom on fixed diets Miss Williams swore she would by no means go on one

However by slicing out meals teams in an try and be 'wholesome' she ended up on a food plan anyway

Like many ladies, Miss Williams, who now anchors Channel 5 information, stated she had spent years watching her mom battling diets, and had sworn she would by no means fall into the identical lure.

She stated: 'My mum at all times gave the impression to be on one. Rising up, I noticed many ladies like her denying themselves what they beloved and nonetheless getting no thinner. 

'I promised myself I'd by no means begin one. After which alongside got here "occasional fasting", which appeared to vow an extended life. Obtained to strive that one.

'Sugar ages you? Give that up then. Stretchy gluten molecules can puff up your stomach? OK, wheat's gone. And don't tempt me with that cup of wine; I've simply learn experiences about it supplying you with most cancers.'

She added: 'My intestine feeling for 2017 is that this: that we are going to cease persecuting ourselves about what we must always and shouldn't eat.

'The occasional sugar hit, so long as it is vitally occasional, isn't going to kill us,' she stated

'We'll cease residing in hungry denial and we'll cease pursuing the starve-sugar-starve cycle.

'This 12 months might be all about consuming for happiness, not only for weight reduction. Let's make it the 12 months for "Good Temper Meals".'

Williams was writing forward of a brand new ITV food plan collection wanting into the impression of food plan on the mind, in addition to how inexpensive wholesome meals is.

She suggested: 'Moderation. It's a horrible phrase however that physician was proper. 

'The occasional sugar hit, so long as it is vitally occasional, isn't going to kill us, though it can in all probability make us really feel awful.'

 

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