The Skinny Thing- Four Months of Weight Watchers

Some time in November I told of my dip into the WW world of pointed dieting. It’s been, well, irritating and effective in more or less equal measures. My progress in weight loss terms has been slow but generally in the right direction despite that pesky business of Christmas the misery month of January and […]

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The Skinny Thing- Weight Watchers

Weight watchers. Haven’t I slammed them recently? Don’t I hate commercialised weight loss plans? Yeah, I do, in a way. I understand weight loss science and the evil psychology of effective marketing. I also need to lose more weight. I’m also a begrudging fan of Elliot Hulse. Who? Elliot Hulse: Relentlessly in your face former […]

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The Skinny Thing- Facing The Slip Ups.

I should be writing this on the eve of my 12 week-end-of-the-road-NHS-weight-loss-plan-weigh-in but for numerous reasons that little nugget of joy has been bumped to next week. Instead I write to you from my sofa on the eve of just another Thursday, about five kilos lighter than I was at the start of this conversation […]

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The Skinny Thing- Master Your Metabolism

This might seem off track for my usual bloggings but in battling my now documented bulge I have come across this book, and I’d like to shout about it a bit. I should add for the record that I’ve been a bit in love with Jillian Michaels since I was forced to watch America’s Biggest […]

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The Skinny Thing- An Unhappy Revisitation

To be clear before we start, I’ve never been skinny other than maybe as a toddler. I was a fat kid, a very fat teenager and a morbidly obese twenty something. This maybe isn’t a surprise for someone who so clearly enjoys eating, and always has. Perhaps always. I’ll get to that later. Cut back […]

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Are you going to eat……….Healthily??????

Yes it’s January and tradition, well wishers, do-gooders and your general Media Services are encouraging change. Not everyone loves change, particularly the kind of change that is an effort and quite possibly involves removing something from your life that you enjoy. Time now then for vomitous juice cleanses, binge exercise injuries and the suicidal tendencies of trying […]