It might seem like a dramatic change to your eating habits, but Elie Roseman lost three stone in just three months after giving up enormous portions of pasta and potatoes, choosing instead a diet that does away with the need for calorie counting. Julia Breen speaks to her.

FORGET having to painstakingly prepare meals from scratch, calorie counting every second of the day and hitting the gym for hours on end.

The new way to diet is to get all your meals delivered to your door.

Just heat them up and ping… you’re slim again. It’s supposed to be a celebrity way of dieting, the closest thing to having your own personal chef.

But is it really that easy?

Go Lower is one of several diet delivery companies offering this service. The Go Lower diet is a dramatic diet. It follows some similar principles to the Atkins diet, in that followers are urged to give up eating excessive amounts of carbohydrate.

You receive all your breakfast, lunch and evening meals. So, for those without the time and inclination for calorie counting, it’s all there.

But beware those who can’t live without their bread, pasta, rice or copious amounts of fruit. It’s all protein, vegetables and nuts. There are, however, some indulgences - chocolate cream bars and nut bars – to stave off hunger pangs between meals.

Elie Roseman, from Tyne and Wear, has become Go Lower’s poster girl. Elie was 11st 9oz, five feet three inches and a size 16 when she started the plan.

“I’d never been on a diet before,”

she says. “I have never been smaller than a 12 in my whole life. I just thought that was me. My friends and I used to say if I was lower than a size 12, I would look awful and too gaunt, that it wouldn’t suit me.

But now I know I was just kidding myself.”

Elie’s dramatic weight loss was three stone in just three months.

She’s now eight and a half stone and a size eight and on a maintenance plan to keep off the weight.

Now she’s so petite and slim, she even buys some of her clothes from Zara Kids.

“Before when I went shopping I always worried about how clothes would make me look, and tried to choose things that would flatter me rather than ones I liked. Now I can just wear anything I like, rather than worrying about what will fit me,” she says.

“It’s strange, I go into a shop now and hold up a pair of size eight jeans and think, that won’t fit me, because your mind is so used to thinking that. But now they do fit me.”

A typical day on the Go Lower diet consists of granola, yoghurt and a handful of berries for breakfast, pea and ham soup for lunch and chicken chasseur with broccoli for dinner.

The company will also call you periodically to check how you’re getting on and answer questions about the diet, or you can call them for advice.

Elie found the first week of the diet hard, as she had to give up her favourite foods, pasta and potatoes.

But after that she settled into the plan. “I don’t think I’ll ever eat pasta again,” she says.

“You learn about all the things you can replace it with. I still make lasagne, which I love, but now instead of pasta I use aubergines.”

■ For more information about the Go Lower Plan visit www.golower.co.uk.