This is a blow out day. It's my 3 year old son's birthday party for his 24+ 3 yo friends and we decided to host it in a nearby church but...

So it's Friday night after a long and hectic week of work and time to kick back and relax. Normally, this would be the moment I'd head...

I rather like the comparison of my 4 extra stone to the equivalent of an 8 year old child of fat. That will become a motif I think...

Dieting in a pack is supposedly motivating. Not sure however that the evidence supports this. Definitely not on the basis of the recent...

What weighs 25 kilograms? If you type that into the internet you come up with 2 gold bars, a bulldog, a 50 inch flat screen tv, 3 full...

When you work from 8am to 7:30pm and then have to rush home to put the three year old to bed, it doesn't leave a lot of time to keep up...

Life is getting in the way of this cartoon a day objective. Having to draw them in one take now in order to get them done on time. So it...

It's been a few days on the diet now and it's around about now that my brain usually says 'well done Trig, nice try, but bloody hell this...

It may surprise some, but the truth is I'm not much of a runner. I've always found running as an activity to be utterly pointless unless...

One of the advantages of being an indolent slob in your early fifties is that a lifetime of experience being inert has prevented any form...

The first week of dieting is mainly a period of mourning. Mourning the good times, the self-indulgence, and the friends you've left...

Committed to the diet challenge publicly today by posting the objective on LinkedIn. Received a few positive messages encouraging support...

Standing on the scales on the first day of your diet is a sobering experience. And even worse if you can't actually see what the scales...

Being described as morbidly obese really hammers home the message of 'you are a dangerously fat blob and you're going to die soon'. I can...

They say the hardest step to take is the first one. But whoever 'they' are, (and I bet they're self-righteously skinny) they're talking...

I've been very fat for about 8 years. Morbidly obese. When the doctor told me this 8 years ago, I stopped going to see him because I...

Whether you call it Christmas, the winter break, or happy holidays, the time off from work presents the opportunity to have a think about...

If there's one glimmer of hope to pull the economy out of the cost of living crisis, it's children's birthday parties. The amount of...

Recently I spent a day in Rome with my two teenage kids and was faced with the challenge of making the Renaissance interesting for a pair...

There are some events that leaders in the corporate world are not equipped to deal with. Typically it's wars and conflicts with high...