OK, it's February and we're still over-indulged from Christmas. Of course we are. We've only done what every yuletide advert worth its salt has told us to again and again and again. Only now the ads are telling us something different. Now it's all about dropping a jeans size and living off nothing but berries in cereal and fat-free yoghurt. (Which, if you take a closer look is full to bursting of sugar-mm-calorific). To be honest,we've eaten like pigs and drunk like fishes for the past three hundred and sixty five days, why should it be any different now just because a digit has changed at the end of the date? I do find it a little ridiculous. But I'm just as bad. Having lived and breathed cholesterol for the past month I now deprive my body of anything remotely tasty in the hope of losing my 'holiday weight.' Also, it doesn't work. That's the simple fact. All the dieting gurus in the world (even the svelte Carol Vorderman) haven't found the definitve answer to permanent weight loss. They need to make money, and for that we fatties need to keep failing in our fight against the flab. That way, we keep trying diet after diet and fad after fad and they - and their reasonably priced books/videos/dvds - will be there with us every step of the way. I know I sound a little bitter. I'm not a yo-yo dieter and have never gone on anything that I would properly constitute a 'diet' as such, but I know friends and family that have. I've never had a particularly great relationship with food; I seem to eat either far too much or far too little but I would say that we all need to be careful. Rather than be fooled into the adverts that encourage us to eat ten times our body weight in two days and then lose it all again in a painstaking detox, we should do everything and anything in moderation. I am a true believer in the old maxim 'A little bit of what you like does you good.' So let's cut out the guilt and concentrate on eating sensibly and exercising regularly. (Maybe I shouldn't have said that - I could make a mint out of that in the future...) Rach xx
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