I tried the stomach-churning 3-day sardine fast - I had terrible cat breath but I shifted 4 pounds and felt great

WE know oily fish is good for you but what about the ‘sardine fast’ that’s gone viral?

Mum-of-one Emma Marns, 33, an academic and operations administrator from Hockley, Essex , decided to find out if it could help her shift stubborn pounds . . . 

CRAZY as it sounds, I’m about to embark on a “sardine fast”, where I’ll live off the canned, oily fish – and nothing else – for three whole days.

At just 50p a tin, they’re as cheap as chips — but sadly, I won’t be eating chips with them.

My fishy fast came about after I hit 14st 7lb over the summer and decided I simply had to lose weight.

I had tried fad diets in the past, but none worked.

After snacking my way through lockdown, I reached almost 13st, so I embarked on the 1:1 Diet — a restrictive, consultant-led regime of low-calorie shak