Daily Mail - The secret sci-fi retreat for women who can't lose weight

Jane Alexander investigates the spa that tells women to stop dieting and eat five meals a day to shed the pounds. 

"When I was 14 my mother put me on a diet. 'You've got skinny arms and legs,' she said. 'It's a shame you've got a fat tummy.' At 5ft 8in, I weighed just over 9st, the perfect weight for my height. Nevertheless, I starved myself to lose a stone — which is how all my weight issues began. 

I had gone to Euphoria hoping for a magic bullet that would melt away my flab. Instead, I had been given home truths and read the riot act. It wasn't a case of losing weight to look better in a swimsuit. It was about turning around my health. 

We tend to think of spas as places of sybaritic beauty treatments and languorous massages. But Euphoria might just be the spa that saves your life."

A 7-day Nutrigenomics retreat (plus 3-month post-programme plan) at Euphoria Retreat costs from £4,695 (healingholidays.com) 

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