Alison Curtis: 'I'm lucky I've always had a healthy relationship with food'

Alison Curtis wonders how to make sure her daughter enjoys her food and doesn't see it as something to be monitored

Alison Curtis 

Throughout my life I have to say I am fortunate and grateful to have had a healthy relationship with food. I haven’t tried any traditional diets. I have been a vegetarian since I was 14 and pretty much let my appetite and taste dictate what I eat.

I am also very lucky that I do crave foods that are viewed as “good” foods. I don’t crave a lot of sugar but if I do I will have something sweet. In the past few years, one thing I have been continually conscious of is limiting the amount of dairy or cheese I have and looking at the fats I am digesting because I have elevated cholesterol.