Ann Diamond

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I have been watching Celebrity Fit Club because I want to lose 10lb (lost 3 and 1/2 stone through WW after giving birth to twins 2 years ago so on the final league). Is she a cheat for having the gastric band operation or so desperate to lose weight, she will try anything? Personally, I think she has some major deep rooted issues that she needs to address because without doing that, she will always have a weight problem. What do you think?

Well she has lost it, then, put it back on again, then lost it and put it back on etc etc etc. I don't think she's cheated as such, she just know's that for her, dieting isn't enough.

She certainly should have owned up to the op before embarking on the programme, but I doubt they would have taken her and I think she's desperate to lose the weight.

Nor even the gastric band appears to be helping her shed weight. I think she certainly has psychological issues related to eating, but having now had the op and still not losing weight, I wonder if there are physical problems too, although she must have had medical tests to rule out thyroid/diabetes etc.

I have a lot of sympathy for her, as I struggled to get my head round losing weight for a long time.

I admire her for all the campaigning she did about cot death following the death of her son and really hope she can find a way to beat her weight problem once and for all.

I think she should have been up front in the first place,but would they have let her on the show.
I think she has alot of other issues which she needs support in tackling. I think she brings into the for-front that alot of women do have a hard time loosing weight.

I don't think she is a cheat as such but should have admitted it before she went on the programme. I can understand why the others may feel it has undermined their successes. She does, however, serve as an example of how such measures are not sufficient in themselves to lose weight and that you still need a healthy balanced die and exercise programme if it is to work. However it goes some way to explain her earlier attitude towards the exercise regime and group sessions as it now seems as she though she was complacent enough to think she'd lose weight without the need for the same effort as the others.

I think she should have been frank w/them that she was even considering the op when she went on the show. My best friend had a banding after years of thought and research. She'd tried literally everything else to shift the weight. When she was not able to have the op on the NHS, she saved up for 2 years to have it done in Belgium after having researched surgeons.

Her mind was in the right place for the surgery, and she's lost 4 stone since September. She has 6 more to go.

If this surgery still isn't helping Anne shift the weight, she needs some serious psychological help, but I don't think it's right that she should still be on the show, b/c it was designed for people using more conventional methods of weight loss.

Whilst I agree she should have owned up, I think she has been unnecessarily vilified. I'm sure she didn't do it to win any contests and has genuine psychological problems she needs to overcome. However, I think it's a bit rich (if it's true) that she is being paid £250K to write a diet book.

Did she do it before or after signing for the show, I wonder?

That would put a different slant on the whole thing wouldn't it. I shall find out soon as someone who is working on it is coming to stay with us!