Muffin tops must fall

Author Rebecca Davis believes that just one dietary resolution could be the easiest way to get rid of unwanted inches and her new spiralizer

- Rebecca Davis

I was an undergraduate student at Rhodes when, as part of a girl gang, I was initiated into the world of dieting. None of us was morbidly obese, but photographic evidence suggests that our habit of having two dinners per night – a hot meal at res, followed by a digestif of garage pies – had begun to make itself known on our waistlines. To state the obvious: this was also the era before the “body positivity” movement.

Our first foray involved a group fast. It would last one day only, which completely defeated the point, and I can’t recall the precise motivation behind it. I assume there was some hugely significant occasion for which we needed to look our best, like Friday night drinks at the local dive bar.