She stopped the extreme dieting and concentrated on counting calories and getting exercise, eventually running four times a week and doing yoga and Zumba.
But, like a dieting commercial featuring impossibly thin models, CES is always promising impossible thinness, particularly on its latest television screens.
No sooner had heavily advertised sweets and snacks taken their toll on the waistlines of those who could afford to indulge than slimming came into vogue, creating a market for dieting aids and low-fat foods as lucrative as that for the products that had caused the weight problem in the first place.