Fern Britton, the former host of This Morning on ITV, has been taking a lot of time to prioritise self-care since taking more of a step back from TV and slowing down. Now, she has the time to put her health, diet and fitness first, having previously explained how she has struggled with the fluctuation of her weight.
Across various interviews and on her social media pages, the 68-year-old has documented and shown her fans how she has managed to find a weight loss regime that is not only enjoyable, but also sustainable. Scroll down to take a look through Fern Britton’s weight loss regime…
Fern Britton cycles to stay healthy
On her Instagram page in September 2025, the former presenter shared a series of pictures from a trip with her ‘Bike Buddies’ to Italy, where she and her friends of 20 years spent a week cycling together.
Cycling offers a series of health benefits, including both building muscle and burning fat at the same time, better sleep, and improving your cardiovascular health. It’s a rewarding, low-impact exercise that is flexible enough to be enjoyed by all.
Fern Britton also runs to keep fit
In an interview with Woman & Home in May 2025, she explained that she had started out on the NHS’s ‘Couch to 5K’ scheme, which helps people to start running from scratch, working up to completing a five kilometre run in just half an hour.
By July, she had completed the scheme, and in September, she shared a video to her Instagram page showing that she had every intention of continuing to run throughout the winter.
Strength training is also a priority for Fern
In an exclusive interview with HELLO! in June 2025, she told us how she had been working on strength training too, telling us: “My legs and arms are much stronger; my tummy is much stronger after four children and everything else my body’s been through,” referring to when she contracted sepsis in 2016. “I was really close to dying, and yet you can still get up and go out and run and be strong again,” she continued.
Monty Simmons, a personal trainer with more than 13 years of experience, spoke exclusively to us about the benefits of strength training, explaining: “It helps to preserve muscle mass and neural drive, which refers to the nervous system’s ability to recruit and activate muscle fibres efficiently.
“Both muscular structure and neural activation decline with age due to changes in cell turnover and reduced physical demands,” the fitness expert continued. “Strength training helps counteract this process.”
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He asserted that lifestyle also plays a key role in this: “As we age, we tend to move less, creating a double effect of muscle loss and reduced strength capacity. Maintaining strength supports everyday tasks such as lifting shopping, getting in and out of cars, walking up stairs, stepping off curbs, or picking objects off the floor.”
For Fern, who is approaching 70, strength training can be especially helpful in ensuring that her capacity to do these tasks does not diminish, and that they continue to remain easy and safe.
Fern has also changed her approach to her diet
The presenter also told Woman & Home that she has cut out around 80 per cent of the sugar from her diet, which now involves “eating three sensible meals a day”.
Eating too much sugar often leads to weight gain, and a frequent high sugar intake can cause the body to become less responsive to insulin and can cause an insulin resistance, which can lead to type 2 diabetes.
Too much sugar can also affect gut health, cause changes in brain function and even significantly reduce your white blood cell’s ability to fight viruses. Certainly, cutting out a lot of added sugars is a good way to improve your all-round health.
