Good Morning Britain’s Susanna Reid has admitted that she needed to take drastic action to overhaul her lifestyle after visiting hospital.
The 53-year-old TV presenter said that she’d completely lost her voice during the year, which she’d found to be terribly frightening. This lead to her seeking specialist support and finding out she had some diet issues.
Having consulted with a doctor, the newsreader discovered that she wasn’t actually drinking enough water. And it turns out that Susanna had been sipping on eight cups of coffee in one day.
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While Susanna admitted she’d not drank the entire eight mugs full of caffeine, the ITV star knew in that moment that she was consuming too much coffee. This was to get her through the day following her 3:45am alarm for GMB.
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The hospital scare led to Susanna taking action to overhaul her health. It included drinking ginger tea and cutting down her alcohol intake.
She told Woman & Home: “Losing my voice earlier this year was a bit of a scare. Everyone gets a bit croaky from time to time, but I could not get any noise out of my vocal cords and that’s never happened before.”
She added: “I went very quickly to see a specialist, who stuck a camera down my throat, for which I needed a nurse to hold my hand because I found it quite intrusive. The specialist said maybe I had a virus that I didn’t realise I had.
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“Unless we’re properly ill, we all carry on working, don’t we? I’m not doing anything to boost my immunity, and I should be.”
The news anchor continued: “The doctor was quite surprised that I don’t drink more water and that I drink quite a lot of coffee, so I have tried to cut down a bit.
“One morning we worked out that I had eight coffees. But I don’t drink the whole cup – I have a few sips. But I now try to intersperse it with ginger tea.”
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Susanna has also lifted the lid on her secret to weight loss. She told the publication: “I don’t know how much weight I’ve lost, but I feel a bit better. Eamonn Holmes once said that when you’re on breakfast television, it feels like you have six breakfasts a day.
“You’re awake for so much longer, you can end up eating more, and because you’re so tired in the afternoon – I’m not playing the violin for myself here, it’s just facts – mid-afternoon munchies can involve a lot of carbs.
“In the summer, when I wasn’t presenting Good Morning Britain, I said to myself, ‘You’re not getting up at 3.45am, so you can cut down on how much you’re consuming’.
“As a result, I lost some of the weight that I’ve been hanging on to. Since going back to work, I’ve had to try not to fall back into the same habits.”
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