“I knew that this was something I wanted to do for life because I was potentially going to destroy my life with an eating disorder,” she said.

She admitted she was going down the route of having a “potential food addiction as opposed to an alcohol addiction”.

The LighterLife plan sets out a very low-calorie diet, with their website stating people can “lose approximately a stone a month”.

And it seemed it worked for Denise, who hailed the programme on her social media pages.

Source: Daily Express | Diet