Alison Hammond has shared the significant lifestyle changes she made to lose weight after discovering she was prediabetic. The TV star, 50, was especially frightened by this diagnosis due to her mother's previous battle with type 2 diabetes.
In a recent interview, Alison reflected on a poignant conversation she had with her mother before she sadly passed away in 2020. She said her parent's words really drilled home the fact that she needed to make different decisions.
"Mum said to me: 'If you can, sort out your weight, Alison,' and that really set it in my head," she told Good Housekeeping in December. "My mum had type 2 diabetes and she was worried for me, so when I then found out that I was prediabetic, that was frightening."
Prediabetes refers to a state where blood sugar levels ar