On Thursday night gone, I was lucky enough to be invited to Hillsborough Castle for media night about the new and impending food festival. It’s the first year of the event and there’s already a huge celebrity chef line up confirmed with the like of Bake Off’s very own Nadiya and BBC’s Eat Well for Less Chris Bavin! Having never been at the Castle before I was well intrigued to have a nose around and to be fair I wasn’t disappointed…and that didn’t even include a tour of the c

I have always struggled with my weight. I’ve always been on the ‘chubby’ side or ‘well put together’ as our ones at home call it! Or ‘built like a house’ as my elderly neighbour once said to my sister and I…at a very impressionable and fragile age of 13!! My daddy lovingly nicknamed me Toby after the Michelin tyre man…as I had so many rolls on my thighs when I was a baby – and it kind of stuck! I’m not saying I’m massively over weight – I’m not. But I do carry extra pounds pr