I used to eat all the time. When I wasn’t eating I’d be thinking about eating and I’d certainly be wanting to eat. I love food. That’s what I’d tell myself. Well, yeah, of course, everybody loves food. It’s designed that way. We’re supposed to enjoy it, otherwise we wouldn’t

It is a realisation that you need to come to if your goal is losing weight, or more accurately becoming a thin person and staying that way. Contrary to popular belief, it’s not a new behaviour that you need, nor a fancy diet. Sure exercise helps you shed the pounds

I don’t get hungry, I ache for food. I’ll be sitting at my desk, scratching out words, and suddenly a pining, yearning, longing to eat will hit me. It’s worse on days when there’s bread in the house. I’ll stop what I’m doing – I have to – and head

So I’m eating my rice and beans the other day, in my usual way (which is bowl in left hand, fork in the other, and holding it right up close to my mouth for easy shovelling), and it occurs to me, boy you eat fast, CB. I justify it to

I make bread, not because I’m some sort of home-making queen and crafting goddess who actually chooses her outfits and does her hair each day – and blogs about it – but because the bread here tastes like shit. Well, actually, it tastes like sugar which is worse. I use

You are not chunky because you are addicted to food and / or sugar and / or wheat. You’re not chunky because it’s just the way you are, or it’s the way your whole family are. You’re not chunky because of a troubled upbringing and eating is a defence mechanism

Picture the scene:  You’ve made a curry.  It’s an absolute blinder, like, you swear a chef straight out of a fancy Bombay restaurant would compliment you on your flagrant and fragrant use of mustard seeds.  You don’t even chew on a cardamom pod, not one time.  It’s a feast for

We get it into our heads that the reason we are fat is because we are somehow flawed or weak and that in order to fix the problem WE need to change. We HAVE TO become exercise freaks or we have to fix our “issues” or we have to develop

Losing weight isn’t actually hard.  I know that’s difficult to imagine, after all, you’ve been playing tonsil tennis with diets since you had braces on your teeth – but I promise you, it’s not hard.  Who am I to say that?  Someone who’s cracked the code.  See, losing weight isn’t

Realisations on your “path” to complete freedom from food that need to dawn in order for you to count yourself cured. 1  Food doesn’t inherently matter – any meaning or enjoyment I’ve gleaned from it is entirely self-created. 2  I no longer get that excited about it. 3  Food can’t