The programme started with two women being sent to an address in London, unbeknownst to them that they were going to stay with health-food freak, Gillian McKeith, for a few days.

She got stuck in to them from the moment they arrived with her healthy eating and exercise, which was fine (that's what they're there for afterall), then she did something to one of the women that I was appalled at.

She sent this lady off for a make-over.  Not so awful, I hear you say.  Imagine it, you're sitting having what you believe is a stunning makeover, perhaps to make you feel better about yourself.  You don't have a mirror, so your mind is playing all sorts of lovely tricks on you, imagining how lovely you're going to look.  You relax into it, then once done, you walk back to Gillian's house, walking down the street with your head held high, thinking you look gorgeous.

Then you get to look at yourself in the mirror.  There's a throne all set up for you to sit on, you sit down, then Gillian hands you the mirror.  As she does, it dawns on you that this make-over isn't all it's made out to be.  It suddenly dawns on you that you've been made up to what you might look like in a few years.  You can't bare to look in the mirror for the fear of seeing you're worst fear!

She had been made up to look as she apparently would if she kept up the 4 or 5 bottles of wine a week and the junk-food lifestyle.  I happen to think this went a bit far, but I can see why she did what she did.  The viewer was left feeling awful for the woman, it was woeful to watch, you can only imagine how it felt for this woman. 

This said, it seemed to do the trick, and the pair were soon back to their own lives and living the Gillian plan.  This then led to the part in the programme where Gillian turned up on their doorstep to stay the night, supposedly unannounced.  This part in the programme was all a touch too staged.  She threw a party with non-alcoholic drinks and we got to endure Gillian singing to kareoke, thankfully only briefly.

I thought it was particularly telling to the kind of lady Gillian McKeith might be when she got out her own sleeping bag to sleep on top of the bed her hostess had made up beatifully for her, not for the sake of her hostess, butin case she got any germs from the bed, or came into contact with anyone elses hair.  Really quite strange, and quite rude!

No matter how annoying Gillian McKeith is, her 'life-change' plan seems to work.  We left the women looking fantastic.

So, if you fancy trying the You Are What You Eat plan, Channel 4 are putting full 7-day meal plans on the You Are What You Eat mini-site. 

I thought the food GilIian had the ladies eating looking quite appetising, I might just give it a go myself. 

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