, this was where I spent my days, returning home in the evenings, before more therapy sessions and group meals with other unwell women.Becky was told she had an 88% chance of developing breast cancer so had a double mastectomy and reconstruction
Soon, I began to restrict what I ate, followed by huge binges, and I’d obsessively exercise as much as six hours a day. It’s painful to remember how unhappy I was, and how worried Mark and my family were about me as I lost more and more weight. Although tests for coeliac disease a few months later came back negative – perhaps not surprisingly given I’d already excluded gluten – I knew how much better I felt without it.“fakeaway” or a katsu curry, and share them online. It felt good to develop a positive relationship with food again.
My first cookbook, How To Make Anything Gluten Free, was released in 2021, my social media channels grew and life was good – until I was hit by a bombshell.After a cousin on my dad’s side tested positive for the BRCA2 gene mutation – which increases the risk of a number of cancers – Dad was also tested. He was told he had the gene, meaning there was a 50% chance I did, too.