Just one of the many diets my mum taught me....

The egg and spinach diet. Up until this very day I hadn't realised women, let alone mothers farted! Strewth Ruth, believe you me all she lost were friends, and invites to social occasions (especially quiet, closed in ones,) Oh and that same couple of pounds, they were gone, on day three's weigh- in, but you guessed it, all back on and more!

I was approximately ten years old when this one came into fashion, just beginning to notice my own little bumps, just beginning to not really like them. A day consisted ofBreakfast- (well you know this word "loosely" comes from the term, break-the fast,) don't be ridiculous, skip it! A cup of black tea, that's all you need. Lunch-2 boiled eggs, huge bowl of spinach (raw). Tea/dinner-2 poached eggs and boiled spinach (what variety) water or more black tea. If I remember rightly it lasted about a week, and my mum was very tiered, snappy, and not much fun! Not to mention being followed around by a puff of green smoke. Exercise regime for this week was to pour ones self into skin tight(don't think Lycra had been invented yet) leotard.This acted as warm up too as far as I could see, mum and her friends used to get quiet a sweat on, then they would bunny hop around the dining room table to shawadywady. As three daughters looked on with bated breath too afraid to look at each other, wow betide anyone who let out a snigger!