Well, the answer to this really does depend on so many factors. Let’s get the terminology right first. When we say lose ‘weight’, we really mean lose ‘fat’. Our weight changes for reasons which have n

The arrival of weight loss jabs has popped the #BodyPositivity bubble. With her formerly rock-solid confidence about her own physique beginning to falter as those around her shrink, WH ’s beauty editor, Perdita Nouril, weighs up how GLP-1s are changing the conversation – and what we all see in the mirror

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There was no way my fella was wiping my backside!

If like me, you were brought up in the 1970s and 80s, you’ll likely have the constant brain niggle that you’re overweight. Remember the Special K advert that suggested that if you could ‘pinch more th

If you’ve ever struggled to lose weight, chances are you’ve blamed your metabolism – that mysterious phenomenon we’re told keeps some people effortlessly slim while making weight loss an unwinnable ba