08-06-2025
EXCLUSIVE I lost five stone in a year and have kept it off by following five free unconventional rules: Anyone can do it and there's NO weight-loss jabs or gym required: NAOMI HOLBROOK
Naomi Holbrook, 50, remembers creeping down the stairs of her childhood home in Devon while everyone was sleeping to raid the kitchen cupboards. 'Mum was a brilliant home baker so there were always tins of flapjacks, sausage rolls and cheese straws that I couldn't resist. Both my parents were big on entertaining and if they'd had a dinner party, I'd also be in the fridge before breakfast helping myself to the 'naughty' leftovers. By the time I was eight years old my complex relationship with food had already begun.'
A pupil at a 'competitive girl's school' where everyone else was 'slimmer and sportier', Naomi 'always felt like the big girl'.
