You don't have to miss out on favourite foods

Weight-loss consultant Stacey reveals her story success

- IAN BUNTING

A Coatbridge Slimming World consultant and weight-loss success story is helping to highlight how you don’t have to miss out on your favourite foods to shed stones.

Recent figures have revealed half of UK adults (49 per cent) say they have put off trying to lose weight due to FOMO (fear of missing out) - with missing out on foods they love and social events fuelling this fear.

Foods people fear missing out on most are chocolate (29 per cent), takeaways (24 per cent), fish and chips (21 per cent) and fry ups (18 per cent).

More than three quarters of people say they get pleasure from eating their favourite foods (77 per cent) and two in three (64 per cent) feel passionate about the food they eat.

So much so, in fact, that more women say they fear missing out on their Sunday roast (35 per cent) than going without sex (21 per cent).

Stacey McKendrick who runs two Slimming World groups in Coatbridge’s Calder Parish Church hall, gave her advice to deal with FOMO concerns.