Alison Hammond has opened up about her 11 stone weight loss journey, revealing how she managed to lose so much weight in a short space of time
Great British Bake Off presenter Alison Hammond has spoken about some of secrets behind her losing a jaw-dropping 11 stone. Appearing on a video filmed with health coach Ellis Gatfield, whom Alison publicly thanked on social media earlier this year, she spoke about how focusing on real world goals rather than just fixating on the weight was a real help.
The This Morning star, who recently bagged a huge new ITV job, explained: “You said, ‘Ok, but what’s the difference? How do you feel going up the stairs?’. It was like seeing those things that wasn’t to do with weight, seeing how I was progressing in that sense which was really really good. Seeing my trousers get a bit looser.
“That for me was so much better than just weighing myself because weighing myself, it didn’t actually make me feel good.”
Alison’s weight loss has not only helped her fit into more clothes, but enabled her to become more mobile and spend more time with her 21-year-old son Aidan. Alison said one example of this was being able to fit in a go-kart and go racing with him, reports the Mirror.
She said: “When Aidan was young he loved go karting. I could never get into the suits to go go-karting, would never go into the karts. Anyway, recently, we both went go-karting.
“It was amazing [Aidan] lit up. I’ve never seen anyone so happy that I was getting in the car and driving against him and we were racing each other.
“Once I did that with him I thought, ‘Look at all the years I’ve kind of wasted when he was younger and he really wanted his mum to come and drive with him’.”
One of the key factors in Alison’s weight loss has been the work she has done with the aforementioned Mr Gatfield, who has opened up about how he worked with Alison to make fitness less of a chore and more enjoyable.
He enforced the need to have a positive mental relationship with exercise such as doing exercises that Alison actually enjoyed which he has said made the process “easier”.
Mr Gatfield also explained he kept the sessions short, to just half an hour, to enhance that feeling of getting stuff done.
He told Women’s Health: “Once we shifted to a style of training she genuinely liked, everything became easier. Training stopped feeling forced, consistency improved naturally, and results followed.
“With Alison, the priority was keeping training effective, enjoyable, and realistic around her schedule. Sessions were always kept to around 30 minutes, which meant they were easy to commit to and never felt overwhelming!
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
