I think I dissected an eyeball at school as part of a biology lesson, but increasingly I’m beginning to doubt the reliability of my...

Romanians are a very welcoming people. They have a great sense of humour underneath all that fatalism and history of unrelenting...

I’m not great with compliments. Receiving them or giving them. To be honest, I don’t receive all that many, so this is a somewhat...

Fizzy drinks are supposed to be bad for diets. But I find you need some kind of sweetness to keep you going. Diet coke, in combination...

Finn got to meet one of Loki's Hampstead nursery mums on Monday on a playdate. He made quite an impression so theoretically I could be in...

I still can't quite believe that I've lost the amount of weight I have. It doesn't really feel like I've been dieting that hard (and some...

This week Radio 6 has been playing an homage to Kurt Cobain, the long blonde haired lead singer of the 90's grunge rock band Nirvana, who...

One of the benefits of free to air tv is that you don't have a lot of choice. Not if you stick to the mainstream channels (in the UK the...

There's a guy I saw on social media who I swear would be the greatest person to have on hand if you needed someone to open a really tight...

Fourth of April 1994. Thirty years ago to the day, I started work in the firm I'm in now. Big celebration tonight of course. I sat at the...

This cartoon strip is on the closing page of the first book describing my dieting journey. It seems an opportune time to summarise what I...

Yesterday was April 1 and I got up bright and early to get my April Fool's play in motion. I barked out loud to Iulia and Loki my prank,...

Last weigh in for the quarter today - reads a little like a financial report that line doesn't it? But it's true - 3 months of dieting...

On Saturday we got in the car and went for a spin out of town, heading west towards the river, an old haunt of my parents who loved to...

Good Friday ended up being very good indeed. We took a turn to a location that my grandmother took me to when I was Loki's age, and in...

Iulia disappears for several hours on the weekend every now and then, returning brandishing a new hair colour, or new tint on her nails,...

My father seemed to always be on a diet. Mysterious one at that - from what I can recall it involved calorie counting during the week,...

Something I've noticed only recently is that the number of fat people at work is diminishing. There used to be a healthy proportion of...

We're beginning to see and feel little signs that we're on the right path. I can see my cheek bones for the first time in quite a while....

Monday morning - another weigh in, and jitters about what damage the naughtiness on Friday might have brought. Different levels of...