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Sally, 49, London

I have four boys, and have basically been overweight since the birth of the first one. Then things just got worse. I have been on more crazy diets than you can imagine. One involved nothing but celery (the idea being that you use more calories chewing it than you consume), and another involved eating nothing but boiled eggs and grapefruit. I was starving hungry all the time, and had to cook scrummy food like macaroni cheese for the children, which just added to my misery. As soon as I heard about Viva Mayr I thought I would try it because it sounded more realistic than anything else I had tried. I also realised there was no need to torture myself with cooking for the children, because they could just eat what I did and so could my husband.

I started on a weekend. The children and I made the spelt bread, and we stocked up on all the food. Actually, it was a bit of an adventure – a challenge – and we all got into it. They didn’t like the spelt bread, but I did. I also tried to get them all to chew slowly, which with four boys was not easy. I have stuck to the diet and am steadily losing weight. I feel a lot better, too, mainly because I am finally doing something constructive about the state of my body – something that I feel is more sustainable and long-term than anything I tried before.