Nigella Lawson: I just wear a bra on the treadmill Lawson, 52, has previously attributed her weight loss to Pilates, cutting down on alcohol and several months confined to the sofa after painful surgery to correct her bunions. In an interview with the January issue of Red magazine, Lawson said she wanted her children to have a relaxed attitude to food because her own childhood memories were of hating mealtimes. "I really didn't like eating as a child," she recalled. If you didn't eat everything, it was brought back cold at the next meal. Lancashire hotpot brought back again and again - I remember putting it in the bin and hoping not to get found out and, of course getting found out. At boarding school I used to read recipe books and think of all the nice food I wasn't eating.