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 [...]

You know how you go through your childhood and teens as thin as a rake, able to eat anything and stay skinny? In your 20s you put on a bit but it’s ok, you can just hold your stomach in a bit, wear your shirts untucked?  And then you get to your 30s and you’re [...]