Tag: weight loss

Make your own mayo to control what goes into it – much tastier and cheaper too.

  Making your own mayonnaise is much easier than you imagine and it allows you to control exactly what goes into it. Use four egg yolks for a super-stable emulsion and dribble in 250ml canola oil at room temperature. All the ingredients must be at …

Perfect food – fuel and delicious

JP cooks salmon and broccoli better than most restaurants. He sears it both sides in a very hot pan with a bit of butter and olive oil and then cooks it skin-side down for four minutes with a lid on, seasoned with lashings of Ina …

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 …