Do past photos of slimmer you help?
I’ve had some great feedback from my Paleo in a Nutshell blog last week. I’ll be saying more about what Paleo is – and isn’t – over subsequent blogs too. And I found another site that gives a great...
View ArticleFace the plateau and fight on!
I measured myself first thing this morning (I have no bathroom scales) and at first didn’t think I had lost anything; quite the reverse! Then I put my glasses on and tried again. Seems I’ve lost a...
View ArticlePaleo’s on the road again
I didn’t blog much last week as I was on the road for a fair bit of it. Covering events and interviewing people for case study write-ups of some wonderfully worthwhile, exciting projects. I won’t say...
View ArticleHome Secretary has Diabetes
I was very saddened to hear at the weekend that Home Secretary Theresa May, 56, has Type 1 Diabetes. This is a horrible illness to get. It’s chronic, thus far incurable and she’ll need to inject...
View ArticleDay of reckoning arrives
Today I went for my seven-week weigh-in. Some may recall that seven weeks ago after a very disappointing weigh-in when I registered just one kilo/two pounds off in five weeks that I was determined to...
View ArticleDiet’s really working now – here’s why
So yesterday I told you how I’d hit my target of losing a pound a week for seven weeks, thus taking off a further half stone. That’s a total weight loss now of 25 pounds since I began six months ago at...
View ArticleHow blogging helps me lose weight
It’s always great to get feedback from anyone who reads this blog. Even better when it’s face to face! On Saturday I met one of my readers in the supermarket. At first when she said, “Well done!” I...
View ArticleBe a part-time Paleotarian!
Oh dear, thought I’d blogged more recently than Monday. And there’s me saying how blogging helps me so much with my diet and I forget entirely to do it. Oh well, blame the lovely weather we’ve been...
View ArticleMost diets fail – so why bother?
So I feel I should address a TV programme and article that went out this week in the UK in which Guardian newspaper journalist Jacques Peretti says not only do diets fail but they’re not meant to work....
View ArticleFavourite shirts
Over the weekend I got out some old favourite clothes, what I call my favourite shirts – after the Haircut 100 song of the same name – to see how they looked. Needless to say, none of these clothes are...
View ArticleNostalgia helps me lose weight
I’m taking bit of a flier here but I reckon there can’t be many diet bloggers or writers who tell you that nostalgia is aiding their weight loss. I’ve always been bit of a nostalgia freak. Ever since I...
View ArticleOur scrambled history with eggs
And now for a hundred carat gold-plated encrusted in diamonds full size plug. For which, as ever, I have neither been asked to make nor paid. This one’s on me. All my plugs are! Saturday night TV in...
View ArticleExercise makes you fat
I’ve been meaning to write about exercise for some time now but last week came the perfect excuse. The programme I talked about in a previous blog called, The Men Who Made Us Thin, dealt in the most...
View ArticleDo you like it wet or dry?
Yes, this is still a diet blog. So how do you like yours? Wet or dry? Do you even know? I speak of whether you like your food wet or dry. Do you like “messed about with” food as my partner calls it or...
View ArticleA matter of faith, not facts.
Why do we hang onto beliefs even when facts prove them wrong? I’m not talking about the existence of god or not, though I firmly feel that if some atheists were given proof-positive that god existed...
View ArticleWhy I love my 70s cookbooks
This is a diet blog so thought was about time I talked about cooking. I had bit of a clearout over the long bank holiday weekend (I know how to live!) and the kitchen shelf that contains all my cookery...
View ArticleEating to the clock makes you fat
How are you? How are you feeling? Hungry? Do you look at the clock for the answer to that question, as many of us have been trained to do since childhood? Because if so, it just might be the cause of a...
View ArticleTax sugary drinks? Hell yes!
On the final episode of the BBC series The Men Who Made Us Thin last night we learned about the fierce opposition to a proposed tax of eight per cent on sugary soft drinks. Opposition that was lead by...
View ArticleJamie doesn’t get food poverty
Hello and happy September. If you’re back to school, college or work this week after a break, hope re-entry goes well. For me, it’s been a very busy August and all I hope for now is an equally busy...
View ArticleWhy you shouldn’t care about calorie counts
Yesterday’s Guardian ran an articled called Should I believe calorie counts in which the paper’s resident doctor, Luisa Dillner, set out the usual tired old cliche that you absolutely must count...
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