Fern Britton reveals just one change she made for incredible weight transformation

has is down to just one thing. The former host, 67, has showed off her slim frame after with her new lover last year.

She hashaving fluctuated between a size 22 and a size 12. Fern is looking fitter and healthier than ever after her recent health kick, yet she made fitted back in 2006.

The presenter, who was married to TV chef , 63, for 20 years, revealed she had the surgery that reduces the capacity of a person's stomach and slows down the passage of food. It can help people lose weight by making them feel fuller after eating fewer calories.

Fern also ate fewer carbohydrates and cut microwave meals from her diet in an effort to improve the results of the surgery. Yet, fast forward to the Covid lockdown, said

The mum-of-four embarked on a new romance last year, and admitted the thought of her new man seeing her without clothes was 'daunting'. Fern was prompted to start a new weight loss journey at the start of this year and has already debuted her impressive results.

She credits her new look with just one thing - exercise. The former Celebrity star beamed from ear-to-ear in a bright pink long-sleeved top which she paired with some black mini shorts as she showed off her progress.

Fern appears to have transformed one of the bedrooms in her house to a home-gym as the picture included a barbell weight and several different hand weights. Alongside the snap - which showcased her toned legs - Fern wrote: "REPOWERING after a sloth like winter… #TheOlderIGet out in paperback now."

Her New Year's resolution was to get in the best shape of her life as she took up running, cycling, walking and lifting weights and insisted that she was determined to stick to her plan.

At the start of the year, Fern said: "I've started running again and gone back to couch to 5K. New year, new fitness regime. Later on in the year I'll be walking a small leg of the south west coast parts which will take about a week to do.

"I'll be meeting my friend, who will be doing the whole 360 miles of coast, but I'm in training doing some walks throughout the week and wearing a rucksack with some weight in it and wearing my boots to wear them in."

She set out her goals and added: "I shall start running again, two or three times a week and I'm going to start cycling again and will do some weights to get my arms and shoulder a bit stronger again."

Back in October, Fern opened up on how she was feeling about her body as she said: "It's daunting at any stage of life to get naked with someone new. These days my body looks as if it could do with a good iron or perhaps even better a steam press.

"So, as I contemplate seeking a new relationship in my 60s, that's a whole added layer of pressure. I have wrinkles, wobbly thighs and bosoms that I roll up like a Swiss roll to tuck them in my bra. Could I display all this to a new partner? I genuinely don't know."

She added to the , that her new relationship is "terrifying" but also "tempting". Fern shared: "Although I see it as an important part of my re-powering, I find the prospect of a new relationship terrifying as well as tempting.

"I imagine what it would be like to have someone to talk to and walk with. Someone with whom to share hobbies, hold hands and maybe… gulp… get intimate."

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