Susanna Gross

Bridge | 23 October 2014

issue 25 October 2014

Forget the 5-2 diet. To lose weight the easy way, why not take up competitive bridge? I’ve just come back from the Autumn Congress, held over three days at the Holiday Inn in Peterborough. Despite devouring double helpings of banoffee pie from the hotel buffet each night, to my astonishment I’ve come back two pounds lighter. I can only put this down to the calorie-burning mental workout involved, plus the adrenalin of playing with David Gold, who never misses a single mistake I make. And then, of course, there’s the sheer excitement of trying to win. Well, we didn’t win: or at least, only the consolation final of the Sunday teams event. The A-final was won by my co-columnist Janet de Botton, who just keeps going from triumph to triumph. No wonder she’s so slim.

My only restful moments came when I was dummy and could watch David work his magic.

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