Unless you count the daily 200 metre walk to the shop and back to buy cigarettes, the sum total of my exercise is zero.  Actually, that’s not quite true, I do a 10 mile walk with a friend every 6 weeks or so but, while it’s enjoyable and I feel good after it (albeit knackered), [...]

According to PhysicsDiet.com my Total Energy Expenditure is 2645 calories per day. To lose 2 pounds a week, which is what I am roughly aiming for, I need to eat 1000 calories fewer than this a day:
2 pounds of fat = 7000 calories
7000/7 days = 1000 calories
So 1645 calories a day.  This doesn’t seem insanely [...]

You’ll see I’ve put a couple of simple graphs up on this site, but to properly follow the Hacker’s Diet it is the trend that is important, not each daily measurement.  Your weight can fluctuate each day because of the amount of water you’re retaining so it’s easy to become disheartened if you suddenly have [...]

I’ve tried a few diets in the past:
Atkins – Fast weight loss but I felt like death warmed-up and knew I wouldn’t be able to maintain such a low carb diet.  I couldn’t, and the weight soon went back on.
Crash – This was as a side-effect of a medical problem I had a few years [...]

If you were to sit down and think up the most unhealthy diet you could, there’s a fair chance you’d be pretty close to what I used to eat.
Breakfast would consist of whatever cakes or biscuits were left over from the night before or, more usually, nothing at all.  For lunch I would pop to [...]