If a diet forces you to throw away food from your cupboard or makes you give up food you enjoy then, long term, it won’t work.

A sensible amount today, but still below my target of 1645 calories.
Breakfast
Bowl of Shreddies and semi-skimmed milk – 218
Lunch
Ham, tomato and onion sandwich (wholemeal) with light mayo – 277
Strawberry yoghurt – 72
Dinner
Chicken breast with Chicken Tonight Spanish sauce, instant mash, sweetcorn – 539
Lettuce & tomato with light Italian dressing – 50
Total: 1256 calories
I did feel [...]

See, this is why you don’t go by an individual day’s weigh in.  This morning my scales are reading 205lbs; I’ve lost a whole 5 pounds in one day!  Unfortunately, despite my ridiculously low calorie count yesterday it is physically impossible to lose 5 pounds of fat in one day without the aid of a [...]

Rung 1 of the Hacker’s Diet exercise plan consists of:
2 bends (trying to touch your toes)
3 sit ups
4 leg lifts (lying face down on the floor)
2 push ups
105 steps with 7 jumps
I wasn’t far out with my defibrillator and oxygen mask comment earlier!  The lying down exercises were fairly easy and I could probably move [...]

Right, that’s this week’s meals all planned out.  Kind of.  The funny thing is that once I cut out all of the crisps, sweets, biscuits and all the other junk and started planning proper meals I struggled to get to my 1645 calories a day.  The highest is 1540 and the fewest 1050.
Part of the [...]