Meet the Sugar-Free Challengers. These brave four women and one man are all taking on the 5 Weeks to Sugar-Free challenge, for various reasons... they all have amazing stories which I feel privileged to have heard. So, we had a chat and I set them off on their challenge with some tips and recipes.

Lucy was diagnosed with breast cancer at the end of 2011, and finished her gruelling treatment of chemo and radiotherapy in 2012.

‘Due to the type of cancer I had, I now have to take Tamoxifen for up to ten years,’ she explains. ‘I have already completed two years - YAY!’

‘Unfortunately, the drug makes you gain weight, and all I want to eat is sugary foods. If I could start to wean myself off sugar and start losing weight, I would feel a much happier person. I know… I am grateful that I am still alive but I also want to feel good about myself again - surely everyone deserves that, right?’

Meet the rest of the Challengers.