Linda Robson tells us how she used Decarb to ditch the pounds
How hard is it for you to resist carb temptations?
Linda: I'm like most women, I'm a busy mum, I've got three children, all of different age groups, all doing different things. I work regularly but not a 9-to-5 job, I find it quite hard to stick to a routine as I'm all over the place going different places. I know I shouldn't but I do often grab something on the go because you haven't got time and you can't get something healthy so you will grab things that you shouldn't be grabbing.
What are your guilty carb pleasures?
Linda: I get really excited even talking about bread, my guilty carb pleasure is bread. if there was only one thing I could take to a desert island it would be bread, granary bread. In the past I would have half a loaf but now the new me, the new Linda, I try and cut down a little bit and have one or two slices, but quite thickly cut.
When you were on The Best Diet In The World TV programme how difficult it you find it to follow the Japanese diet?
Linda: In Japan there weren't a lot of carbohydrates there in the first place, they don't have a lot of carbs in their diet. it's all things like raw fish, so they don't cook a lot of things. There's soup which tastes like dishwater, there's nothing in it. So I found it really hard to follow the Japanese diet.
How do you enjoy carbs without giving up your favourite foods?
Linda: I've done the Atkins diet where it's all protein and you get smelly breath. I've done the cabbage soup diet, the boiled egg diet, you name any diet and I've done it and most of them have no carbohydrates in them it all. So at least with this one, Decarb, you can have a little bit and when you do have a bit you can take your Decarb and that gets rid of 25% of the calories and 66% of the carbs that passed naturally through your body. There is no side-effects or anything and you can eat carbs without feeling too guilty.
What is your exercise routine?
Linda: I've been to many a gym through the years and checked out the restaurants there. As I said with my kind of lifestyle I don't have routine, everything changes from one day to another so it would be really hard for me to go to the gym. Also when I get home I just want to spend my time with my husband and my kids. What I have been doing is walking more than I had been before. Before I was too heavy to walk and founded it too boring and long, now I'm lighter I'm often jogging round to the shop or having little jog round our local park.
Where can we go for more information?
Linda: The place that I found ways to get more information is the website eatertypes.co.uk, then you feel in a little questionnaire and they tell you which diet is suitable for you and the decarb diet was perfect for me.