My guest today is Wendy Ida, author of Take Back Your Life: my no nonsense approach to health, fitness and looking good naked. Three-time award winning body builder and top fitness trainer, Wendy started her fitness career when she gained 24kg after the birth of her second child. Thrilled by the results of training, she left her job as an accountant to become a fitness coach and nutritionist.

Written for women, but full of earthy common sense for men, her book has tons of information about what we should know about our body. She provides a 90-day guide to regaining control of our middle-age spread that is easy to follow and delivers very visible results. A passionate advocate of the benefits of looking good naked, she sees the body as at the epicentre of the results of life experiences that are still undigested by the time we reach middle age: divorce, overeating, job loss, relocation and health issues.