My Big Fat Diet Show

"I joined my diet club when I was 17. I'm 43 now and I still haven't reached Goal"

Haha I know the feeling. So when the presenter vowed that she and her hapless dieting group would drop a dress size in two weeks I sat up to take notice. Two weeks? That's the kind of diet I like the sound of.

(Now I just know someone is going to mention the enthusiastic use of lipliner by the group so I'll just mention the horror now to get it out of the way).

Basically the programme reckoned if we stick to 1200 calories a day for two weeks we could do it. It was unbelievable though that the Dieting Divas who claimed to be on various diets for all of their adult lives had absolutely no conception of the amount of calories in things like wine and chocolate.

Now we've seen much of this before, but other facts revealed by the show were:

• many of us are addicted to sugary/salty/fatty processed food
• our portions are too big and we eat too many calories
• Supermarkets persuade us to buy fattening food by using sophisticated marketing and psychological tricks. (For example we are more likely to buy foods from shelves on the left hand side because most of us are right handed)
• A Burger King double cheeseburger has less calories than a Bagel Factory turkey bagel or a cheese wrap. Eeek!

Click here to find out more about the show, including diet menus and profiles of dieters etc