...Sally Anne Voak - who has been writing diet books for decades. For that reason, It's kind of surprising that she holds the people who made her so rich in such contempt.
She says in the Daily Mail that people who lose weight on diets always sem to put it back on again. Oh, really? I wonder why that 
could be. Perhaps the fact that Voak has authored 28 diet books should tell you something. If the whole premise of a diet (eat what I tell you to and you'll lose weight) worked on a permanent basis, she wouldn't need to pen 28 versions of the message "Don't eat so much, fatso!"
She starts by talking about a past slimming competition winner who lost over 11 stone. What an achievement! Sally Anne drives down to see her, expecting a 'neat size 12 frame' and is horrified to find her protege is in fact 'a bloated creature'
"She looked truly awful, dressed in mansized tracksuit bottoms (which I am sure belonged to her boyfriend) and a great big floppy jumper which failed to conceal her sagging breasts and stomach. I must have looked shocked, because she smiled and said: "I've put on a little bit of weight."
She honestly didn't realise just how big she had become - I could tell at a glance that she was around 7st heavier than when we had last met."
Nice.
She didn't realise how big she'd become? Not too patronising there. The article gets worse. She describes her distress at walking down the high street and seeing:
"young women in their 20s with their stomachs sticking out of their trousers, eating burgers, and middle aged women with ankles spilling over their shoes shuffling painfully along."
She also says, and I quote directly here:
"In all my years of helping overweight people to slim, I have never met a happy fat person. There is no such thing - nobody likes looking in the mirror and seeing a fat body."
Tell that to all of the people I know who no longer beat themselves up just because they aren't a standard size ten, Miss 'Evangelical' Voak! Apparently this woman has helped 15,000 people to diet during her career, and written loads of useless diet books which quite obviously don't work because if they did she wouldn't be in the Daily Mail whining about it. Unless she wanted to flog her forthcoming novel...now, wouldn't that be a coincedence?
Sally Ann would hate this website - she doesn't agree with big women being catered for - apparently we should all dress in shapeless sacks (presumably so that we turn to another of her diet books in desperation because we have nothing to wear.)
"...as bigger becomes more acceptable (look at the fashions available now for fat women) then people will continue to get fatter and fatter, and our struggling health service will face a real crisis."
Do you know what would be good? Not that I'm advocating spam e-mailing a poor defenceless diet author who's worried that her core market will stop buying her books if they let go of the self-loathing she obviously wants to encourage....Sally Anne Voak writes for The Sun, and has been berating recalcitrant dieters in that paper for years. Their e-mail is:
I suggest you let them know what you think! 
