The much-loved Loose Women panellist Gloria Hunniford has opened up about how she has made simple changes to her diet after a warning from a doctor.
Speaking to Woman Weekly, the veteran presenter shared details of her new diet: “I’d dieted before, but going on a medical diet gives you determination.”
It was only a few everyday ingredients that the former Strictly star had to wave goodbye to, as part of her new health kick: “I cut out all the sugar I could… (I also) gave up bread, pasta and potatoes.”
Delving deeper into what her average day looks like after embarking on the new eating plan, she added: I’ll have egg or sausage for breakfast, but no bread. It’s soup or salad with fish for lunch, and in the evening I’ll replace potatoes with cauliflower, which has the same sort of crunch.”
Gloria has previously opened up about the sad passing of her daughter in 2004
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Her move to a more healthy way of living came on the back of a doctors warning, after the 84-year-old revealed that she’d been diagnosed as pre-diabetic: “My doctor said I was pre-diabetic and told me to take my life in my hands.”
While she now keeps to a particularly strict diet, Gloria did admit that she sometimes treats herself to a “glass of wine or champagne”.
Aside from advice from her doctor, Gloria has also been spurred on to become more conscious of her health following the sad passing of her daughter over 20 years ago.
Her daughter, the Blue Peter star Caron Keating, sadly died at 41 in April 2004, and in 2018, Gloria opened up to the Mirror about the tragic loss of her daughter to breast cancer: “Losing a child takes you to the darkest spot you could ever imagine.”
She added: “There’s something extra hard about getting pregnant, carrying that baby, giving birth, treasuring that child, and then losing her. You don’t think all your children will end up with PHDs or anything, but you pray to God you’ll live long enough to see them live happy lives.”
Having undertaken a whole host of TV work down the years, Gloria is possibly best known for being one of the regular faces of ITV’s Loose Women where she has appeared ever since her debut in 2014.
Gloria appears on James Martin’s Saturday Morning today at 9.30am on ITV.