Tag: diet

Rather be honest and call us fatty to our faces

If we were honest about how we feel about fat people would that make it easier or more difficult for people to lose weight? I can’t help but think that if people viewed the obese in the same way as they do alcoholics or smokers 

Being fat is a self-inflicted handicap.

Being fat is a self-inflicted handicap. But, unlike other handicaps which I imagine occur mostly suddenly, those of us who were or are fat know that the weight piles on gradually and we manage to lie to ourselves about our condition for so long that, 

Know what your next steps towards health will be

Knowing myself, as I do, I’ve accepted that I will always have some anxiety or another. At the moment I’m anxious about having sufficient money and the time to do all the things I believe I must do. I’m also anxious about food options when 

Undeserved recognition is like meringue – briefly sweet and then gone.

Probably more than other babies, I was born wanting to be famous. This led to lots of tantrums and a precocious childhood. I think what drew me to working in media was this need to be seen by many. And, over more than twenty years 

Feel the fear and do it anyway

Know Yourself. When I was an active Freemason, one of the central tenets was to Know Yourself and now that I’m on this healthy-living journey, this advice seems more relevant than ever. I’m a worrier – always have been and probably always will be, but 

What I’m getting now is worth so much more to me than what I’ve given up.

Although on separate sides of the pond, my brother Steven and I both excelled at physical endurances today. He completed the Watford Half-Marathon in 1 hour and 58 minutes while I cycled 34km today to The Palmiet River and back to Pringle Bay. Previously cycling