Articles about: diets
The Fast Diet: perfect for Lent?
So we’re well into February and by now (sadly) now most of us have given up on the diets we started full of enthusiasm and gung-honess in the New Year. However a fresh start, laden with...
Operation Transformation 2013: will you be watching this year?
Seeing as it’s the season for endless weightloss promotions, Nicorette ads and the sound of wavering resolutions, it must be January – which means Operation Transformation is back for it’s...
Poll: Would you prefer to lose weight more than anything else
While in the hairdresser spending €200 getting Ballyage (only 100 years after the trend has peaked, but sure what the hey) I read an interesting magazine article in Dec. Elle. It said that according...
OMG DIET: SIX WEEKS TO AN EATING DISORDER?
“You know” said himself one evening recently. “You don’t need to eat breakfast. It’s a very recent trend in our evolutionary cycle and without fundamental nutritional...
Chocolate Makes You Skinny. Er, Yeh Wah? Evidence Seems to Point to Contrary
In between clever titles of pictures of the Pope wearing a sombrero (Cardinal Hatzinger! I nearly fell off my seat on the bus with uncontained mirth), yesterday’s Metro Herald (and all other...
Celebrity weight loss: gastric band or diet?
A lot of female celebs have lost a ton of weight very quickly recently – with lots claiming they did it easily and naturally. It’s hard for them, they’re in the public eye and...
Operation Transformation 2012: are you watching?
Standing beside Kathryn Thomas would be enough to give anyone a complex If it’s January in Ireland you know it must be time for Operation Transformation, the blockbuster RTE show which aims to...
The Skinny on Fei Yan Diet Tea: Lorraine Tells The Hole Truth
A few summers ago, I was bemoaning the inches of excess back-side that had crept up on me (maybe when I was distracted by the handfuls of chocolate in front of my gob) to a friend. Knowing that I have...
Detox diets and the lure of the quick fix
Jared Leto before detox (right). Know how he feels And as surely as night follows day, New Year purging follows Christmas bingeing. In our hurry to lose the Tin of Roses related poundage we often...
Little pickers wear bigger knickers. Forum alert: top diet and fitness threads
Staring down the barrel of a New Years Eve dressed in a muu muu, as I tore off the dress I was trying to squeeze into in the Karen Millen dressing room I realised that THE DIET MUST START. NOW. Sorry...