This Morning star Alison Hammond managed to lose a seriously impressive 11 stone – which she puts down to managing to remove two foods in particular from her diet
TV personality Alison Hammond, 50, is a firm favourite of This Morning fans thanks to her candid and down-to-earth approach and now she’s back with her own series, Alison’s Big Weekend.
The new show will see the popular host spend an entire 48 hours with a celebrity, with the BBC describing it by saying: “Buckle up, babes – Alison’s coming for a sleepover! Expect laughs, juicy secrets, surprises and a few tears as she hangs out with celebs in the places that made them who they are.”
The first episode will see Alison spend the weekend with Perrie Edwards, which will see the Little Mix pop icon delve into her relationship with fame and her struggles with anxiety.
The host, who has also presented Great British Bake Off, rarely shies away from chatting about her own personal life and has even opened up about her journey to losing a seriously impressive 11 stone.
At one point, Alison revealed – per Birmingham Mail – that she weighed 28 stone, which led her to have a gastric band fitted, though, unfortunately, the procedure didn’t work out for the Birmingham native. “It’s actually quite a difficult thing. It just didn’t work for me. I didn’t like the feeling of it. You still feel hungry but you can’t eat,” she explained.
However, because her mother had suffered from Type 2 Diabetes, Alison was determined to shed some weight when she learned that she had become pre-diabetic herself, particularly after a conversation the mother and daughter had before her mum passed away back in 2020.
“Mum said to me: ‘If you can, sort out your weight, Alison,’ and that really set it in my head. My mum had type 2 diabetes and she was worried for me, so when I then found out that I was pre-diabetic, that was frightening,” she told Good Housekeeping.
There were two food types in particular that Alison cut out that she found had some serious results when it came to her weight loss journey: fatty food and sweets. “I thought, I have to be an adult about this,” she added.
After dropping an incredible 11 stone, she has revealed that she no longer is pre-diabetic, and along with managing her diet well she managed the impressive feat with the help of a personal trainer that she sees twice every week and by incorporating home workouts into her regular routine – including walking, stretching, and weight training.
The presenter has been clear that it was health concerns that were at the top of her agenda when it came to her weight loss journey. However, she has also revealed on This Morning there was one particularly “embarrassing” moment that occurred on a flight when she was at her heaviest, adding it is a situation that she no longer has to deal with since she lost the weight.
“I was nearly 28 stone I’ll be honest with you and that is morbidly obese. And I used to buy an extra seat because I didn’t want to put anyone in a situation where I was touching them…I was made to feel uncomfortable on one occasion when I was so close to someone’s seat and they asked to move but they ended up moving me into first class,” she explained.
“It was embarrassing the whole thing and from that moment I just started buying two seats. I don’t do it anymore because I’ve lost a bit of timber but not everyone can afford to do that.”
Despite sharing the candid story and how it affected her emotionally, Alison made it clear during the chat with co-host Dermot O’Leary, and guests Tom Swarbrick and Gyles Brandreth, that her motivation was always to ensure better health when it came to losing weight.
“I was in a situation where I was morbidly obese. I had to lose weight because I was dying, I really was dying,” she explained, adding: “People will still say I’m big but now I’m 17 stone rather than 28 stone and I’m comfortable with telling you my weight.”
Source: Mirror
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