My epiphany came while eating the two tiny crackers I was permitted for lunch, each to be chewed 60 times before swallowing ...

One of Sheffield’s very first female only gyms is celebrating its 10th anniversary in September with a record number of attendances and plans to race to Cornwall and back again.

The 2003 Pop Idol winner, 45, who last year revealed she had shed a whopping 9st , looked sensational in a colourful bikini which she wore with a flowing kaftan.