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Lately, the glycaemic index (or GI) systems have become all the rage or, even more lately, the GL (glycaemic load). There’s nothing new in the GI diets, as Montignac devised his series of books largely based on a GI model in the Eighties. These systems are entirely sensible—lots of fruit and veg, whole foods, some protein, lots of water—real food eaten sensibly. And I love the way that in the front of his book Montignac thanks not one but two cordon bleu chefs. Now that’s what I call a diet!

But I come back to the point that these two systems (GI and GL) are still eating plans that trap you in a horrible point-counting black hole. You are not encouraged to think for yourself, but have to buy even more props to keep you on the diet. Before too long you get in a muddle as to which food is high or low GL, or was it GI? Just as you thought you knew how it all worked, you start to have doubts—you’d better check back with the book just in case. ‘Blast! The book is in the other handbag. I really don’t know what to choose. Yikes!’ Then, just when you’ve got the system down pat, you find out that there are all sorts of exceptions and variations. And for one, such as myself, whose strong point is not maths, calculating all those blessed points is a real pain. I never have enough fingers. Life is really too short. Unless you are absolutely determined and unwavering in your belief in the diet, by day two everything has already gone drastically pear-shaped.

The thing is with dieting and being on a diet, the implication is that one day you won’t be on a diet—and then, of course, the pounds slowly but steadily start to pile back on. And so the whole cycle starts again. But read on and you will become a liberated woman, enjoying food for its own sake, safe in the knowledge that by eating healthily, your weight will look after itself.