Strictly Come Dancing's Shirley Ballas eats 2-ingredient meal every day to keep weight off

Shirley Ballas says she had "struggled" with her value "all her life" and has regularly faced comments saying she "needed to beryllium thinner" oregon "look a definite way".

Strictly Come Dancing justice Shirley Ballas has revealed she eats the aforesaid two-ingredient meal each time to enactment healthy.

The caput justice has antecedently spoken of however she “struggled” with her value “all her life” and mislaid 9lb successful 1 week by adopting a bootcamp-style routine. And to assistance support the loss, Shirley, 64, adopted a two-ingredient repast packed with protein.

She says each time she eats chickenhearted with lemon. On the Comfort Eating podcast with Grace Dent past year, Shirley revealed she avoids the nutrient backstage astatine Strictly due to the fact that it is “calorie food”.

She said: “I similar to locomotion astir the array due to the fact that they person tons of yummy cakes, sweets and biscuits, and they person each sorts of fantastic food, but it decidedly is calorie food, due to the fact that the dancers are dancing each time and are young with fabulous bodies. Nope, I get my chickenhearted from Marks and Spencer oregon Sainsbury’s that has been cooked. They bring maine a batch of crockery and we mightiness person a small spot of sushi successful the afternoon.”

Explaining if the chickenhearted was marinated successful anything, Shirley continued: “Just citrus chickenhearted and past I chopped it. But it’s a blistery chickenhearted that has conscionable been baked and that’s what I person connected Strictly. I person had that each year, each week.”

Shirley has antecedently opened up astir comments she has received astir her assemblage during her clip arsenic a nonrecreational dancer. While she has had antagonistic remarks crossed the years, Shirley says she present “feels arrogant of herself”.

She said: “I’ve perpetually had radical archer maine I needed to beryllium thinner oregon that I had to look a definite way. Comments passim my beingness person ever stuck with maine and successful my past they’ve made maine consciousness conscious of however I look. Sadly I thought that validation from others was necessary.”

Shirley added: “I’m arrogant of myself and pleased with however I look. I consciousness bully successful my ain skin.”

Strictly Come Dancing continues contiguous connected BBC One astatine 7pm. The celebrities volition contiguous beryllium performing unrecorded for the archetypal time, harmless successful the cognition that nary 1 volition beryllium exiting the show.

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