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Yeotown, UK This cosy-chic Devonshire retreat attracts stressed-out city types with its challenging coastal hikes, cycling, twice-daily yoga, field games and daily massages and sauna sessions. Book it A seven-day programme costs £2,108 (yeotown.com). Nubeginnings France, France For changes to your health/weight in the long term, Chateau Milly is the answer-with a combo of hypnotherapy, psychotherapy sessions, workouts and massages. Book it It costs £2,495 (plus VAT) for one week's stay (nubeginningsfrance.com).
me with low-calorie foods such as egg-white omelettes, veggie soup and grilled fish with vegetables. And whenever I started to feel a blood-sugar crash coming on, I'd prop up the spa bar with a fresh juice or smoothie. Results I didn't expect to return as toned as Cameron Diaz, but I did hope to boost my fitness and energy levels, and flatten my pot belly, and - amazingly - it worked! The programme suited me and there was plenty of time for spa-ing. Alice Ripman How hardcore? 7/10. Rocco Forte's Verdura Golf& Spa Resort (00 39 092 599 8001; verditraresort.com) offers a fitness, muscle-building and toning programmefrom £2,210 (about £1,875) per person, in March and April, based on double occupancy for six nights, including fall board and transfers from Palermo airport. Easyjet (easyjet.com) flies to Palermo from Gatwick from £29.99 one way, including taxes.
Escape to Shape, worldwide An ultra-luxe experience that includesyoga, hiking, spa and organic cuisine in Bali, Morocco, Turkey, South America and Italy. Book it It costs from about £1,895 per person for six/seven nights (escape toshape.com). Camp Biche, France At this Lauzerte mansion,you will indulge in three gourmet veggie meals a day, complete with pud, wine and champagne. The threehour hikes in the countryside, Pilates and intense abs classes whittleyou into shape. Book it It costs £3,000 for one week's stay including meals (campbiche.com).
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Bovey Castle, UK The Dartmoor hotel has launched a Weight Loss Academy, offering a personalised diet, psychological seminars, image consultancy and a bespoke fitness programme. Book it A five-day all-inclusive package costs from £1,997 (boveycastle.com). • Sarah Statman NSTYLE / F E B R U A R Y 2011 155