This Morning presenter Josie Gibson, 40, has opened up about her extreme dieting past and vowed to never ‘mess around’ with her body again following a ‘health scare’
Josie Gibson refuses to diet again after previous health struggles.
The TV presenter has admitted to dabbling in “extreme” diets in the past, but after a recent health scare, she’s sworn off messing with her body. The bubbly This Morning presenter has been eating some rather quirky food for her latest telly project The 1970s Diet, airing on Channel 5.
When quizzed about her own dieting history, Josie confessed: “I’ve been on the Cambridge Diet, and I ate about a week’s worth of food on the way home from the meeting. Some people love it, but I just can’t get on with it.”
“I’ve done everything, I’ve taken diet tablets back in the day. I have done some extreme things, but I can’t mess around with my body anymore. I cannot mess around with my metabolism, so I am where I am.”
In a chat with Closer magazine Josie also opened up about tweaking her lifestyle habits, which she reckons is making her a better mum to her six year old son Reggie.
“I thought only kings like Henry VIII got gout. I was like, I’m a 40-year-old woman, this is really embarrassing,” she also said, reports the Mirror.
Back in February she also revealed to This Morning viewers that she had to take a breather after injuring her foot while on holiday. A vanity unit toppled onto her foot, leaving her hobbling around on crutches.
Over the past few months she’s decided to scale back on work and made an effort to take better care of herself: “I got a bit of a health scare while filming this show, so it knocked me into submission a bit, I had to do something about myself. I’ve learnt more about my sleep as well, I had to track how many hours of sleep I was getting.”
“I was living on four, five… six hours at a push but now I make sure I get eight or nine hours, and I feel like a totally different human being. I’m a better mum, I’m better at my job, I remember things a lot more. I try to walk a lot more than I did now, because I was so tired all the time I’d take the car everywhere.”
Gibson admitted that she now has “more patience” and before starting the experiment, the This Morning star “spent too much time on her phone”.
“Now I’m getting better sleep and I’ve said no to a lot of work for my own health benefits. I’m spending more time at home and I’m prioritising my son and my health. When I turned 40, I always said that was what I was going to do.”
When asked about whether this has made her a top-notch mum, she confessed: “Yeah, I reckon so because my patience and understanding are a lot better. I’m a better human being.”
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