An introduction

I have an insatiable appetite; I can sometimes go through 2,500 calories in a single sitting and 5,000 calories in a day. I also have a sweet tooth. I love cakes, biscuits, sweets (candy, for our American counterparts), chocolate - is your mouth watering yet? The problem with this combination is that you can easily put on weight, and left unchecked I can easily put on 10 pounds in a week or two. Do this over the course of a year and you have serious problems.

Luckily for me, I have managed to maintain my weight consistently over the last 10 years. Sure, there have been some fluctuations, but I have found ways of staying well within the healthy range whilst enjoying foods that I want in quantities that I want. I want to share some of those concepts with you, so that maybe you can be freed of the helplessness you feel regarding controlling your weight.

I hate hearing when others are on a ‘diet’ as it always signifies that they are going to be depriving themselves for the next 2 weeks (or however long their weak willpower lasts). If you have ever seen me on a diet, you will realise that I certainly don’t deprive myself – often people make comments more in the range of “you are so lucky you can eat so much and still stay thin”. What they don’t realise is that I am not lucky at all, but through certain strategies I use, I am able to still indulge in large portions of delicious food whilst dropping weight.

The typical story for a dieter goes like this - realising they have 20 pounds to lose before their next beach holiday, they quickly research the latest fad diet which involves cutting out everything they love. Usually they will have to do something very strange as a ‘hook’, such as drinking a glass of bath water. There will usually be some idiotic scientific explanation for why drinking a glass of bath water will somehow use the lost bodily salts to supercharge your metabolism (please people, don’t try this – it is just a sarcastic example). After a week, they are already craving everything they cut out of their diet and are pretty sick of the bath water, but as they have lost 6 pounds in their first week, they continue on. Second week comes, they step on the scales and nothing, didn’t budge an inch. All that effort and missing out on good foods, only to see the same reading on the scales as last week. Very quickly, the diet is abandoned and a binge fest of epic proportions begins. Within a week, they have put back on most of the weight they lost, within a month they have gained a little more than original. Now, the cycle either begins again with the next fad diet, or the person feels that dieting simply doesn’t work for them.

Is this someone you know – or you? It doesn’t have to be this way. I am going to try and write a few articles in my spare time - different strategies to help you break free of the above destructive cycle. It will allow you to consistently lose weight and still maintain the ability to go out, have drinks and meals without sabotaging it. I will also try and go through some quality foods that can add a nutritious punch to your meals, as well as fill you up better. The foods and strategies suggested will also enable you to maintain as much muscle as possible during your weight loss, so it will leave you much more toned than most other diet plans.

This is a serious passion of mine, I have spent many years researching this stuff and putting it into practice through tinkering and experimenting with variants and extremes to see what works. I hope that this can influence people in a positive way, and make them think a little differently about dieting and have a more healthy relationship with food. Taking care of yourself and being in shape is one of the best things you can do for your health and general wellbeing. And now, it doesn’t have to be a chore either. Bookmark this page,  share it, add it to your favourites or add your email address at the top of the page to keep track of the updates. I hope it helps you.


Enjoy your food :)