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Home / Celebrity News / Tina Malone exclusively reveals surprising diet secret to maintaining 12 stone weight loss: 'I haven’t cut out anything’' Tina Malone revealed her diet secrets [Getty]

The Shameless actress has shed a whopping 12st 6lbs, since having a gastric band fitted five years ago.

She underwent the procedure to improve her health, but has discovered a number of benefits to her life along the way.

Chatting exclusively to OK! Online about how her life has changed since dramatically slimming down, Tina, 54, revealed her diet secrets.

And some may be surprised to discover that the star eats seven meals a day, despite being an impressive size six. 
"I haven’t cut out anything," Tina confessed. "It’s now what you eat, it’s how much you eat – I have seven meals a day.

"By meals, I mean what a child would eat. It’s a slow energy release, so it lasts longer. There’s loads of fallacies – people think by not eating after six o’clock they’ll lose weight, which is a complete and utter fallacy.

"I know, I’ve met enough nutritionists and doctors to know that if you don’t eat after six o’clock and you’re still awake at 10 or 11 o’clock, your body goes into shock and goes, 'Oh my god we’re not getting supper'."

Tina continued: "Whereas, if you keep it going, you’re fooling your body, and you have supper at eight or nine, your body is still using the energy." 
The mum of two, who recently broke down on Loose Women, also opened up on how her new-found fitness has eradicated her type two diabetes.

She explained: "When I got my gastric band, it was always about health, getting rid of the diabetes, which I have done. I injected insulin for 22 years and I haven’t done now for six years."
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When we asked if it was her fitness transformation that had had such a change, Tina was adamant about the effects of her diet.

"Absolutely," she said. “I was diabetes type two, I was what I call a, 'fat diabetic', it wasn’t diabetes type one, which a lot of people are automatically born with or develop. 
"I had diabetes which was brought on by a sweet tooth and overeating and that was coupled with, at one point, my blood sugars, injecting three lots of insulin a day.

"I was on 38 tablets a day for blood pressure and diabetes, so it was sugar and obviously being incredibly unfit and unhealthy."

Tina has successfully shrunk her figure from a size, 28 to a size six, a journey which has taken five years.

But the actress is finally happy with her physique. Tina Malone breaks down in tears during emotional chat about her body on Loose Women: Tina explained that she was upset by the impact it was having on her family [ITV]

She explained: "In the first nine months of having my gastric band fitted five years ago, I lost nine stone. So the last two or three stone has dragged on. Also, included in that, three years ago I had the IVF, had to have my band loosened, got pregnant and gained three and a half stone during my pregnancy.

"Then I had to lose it again, which did panic me a bit to be honest, because you think, 'Oh my god am I able to do it again?' I got gown to a size 10, which is incredible but I never thought I’d get to a size six. I’m actually in a size 14, but probably an inch on the top because of the boobs."