I know that The Biggest Loser has always done product placement, but is it just me or have they really ramped it up this season? It seems like there’s a ‘Trainer Tip’ (read: vaguely hidden plug) at the start of every section – not to mention all the “Hey everyone let’s go to Subway and [...]

I’ve not been updating this blog much lately have I? Truth is there’s not a lot going on – I’ve lost another few pounds but things are moving ever so slowly the last few months. Just yesterday I started weight training so I will update and let you know how that works out. I was [...]

After two weeks away and not doing any exercise I actually found it really easy to get back into it last week — eating well and working out daily. This week it’s the total opposite, I have been eating a lot of stuff I would usually touch with a barge pole…like cookies and big pies…and [...]

It looks like my little trip away was just what the doctor ordered, I finally braved a weigh in and to my (somewhat) surprise I had lost a few pounds. I was 10.5 when I headed away and am now 10.2 after two weeks of little exercise and indulgence. Happy days. I say indulgence, I [...]

I am heading away on holiday on Saturday, I am super excited because it’s long overdue – but it makes me nervous in weight loss terms. There’s going to be so much temptation around. I have already decided I am going to treat myself, I actually don’t think it will do me any harm to [...]

…like a pig. Argh really, somebody stop me! It’s not like I have gone totally crazy and been pigging out on especially naughty food but I’ve not been watching my diet very much at all and I have eaten two slices of carrot cake and a bit of toffee cheese cake! It is totally comfort [...]

I just watched yesterday’s Big Brother’s Little Brother, my word Lisa from last year has been on the bodybuilding supplements hasn’t she? The woman is built like a machine now. She was always super fit and muscly but I think she’s taken it a bit far now! I just started taking some supplements myself, not [...]

Shrove Tuesday and I didn’t eat a single pancake, go me. Well except not, I am cheating and trying to get praise where I don’t deserve any. I didn’t eat any pancakes, but that’s because I don’t really like them. They are far too sickly for me, though I don’t hate them and in the [...]

I am OK with that. I weighed in on Christmas Eve and had lost 1lb, making me 11.3…but I didn’t log it because I knew I wouldn’t be staying at that weight for long. On Sundays weigh in I was 11.5, so I gained 2lbs in the three days I was off my diet — [...]

I was thinking earlier about my days as a student, and how it would have been so much harder to resist the temptations and motivate myself to lose weight back then. I lived in some real dives in my time at Leeds Met, with some real awful roommates and some nightmare landlords. We had no [...]