There's something about the way little tots sit on the floor that is incredibly cute. Their backs are bolt upright, cross-legged and arms...

Birthday parties, nursery, or any contact with humans at all seem to be ripe opportunities for your three year old to get ill. Which...

They say that a hungry man will eat his own family if it comes down to it. Hunger is what sends societies into meltdown. The Roman...

It's not just me that needs to lose weight. Ever since Loki was born, our place has been accumulating junk like its some kind of...

I've never considered myself a superstitious type. Always found people who name inanimate objects (like their cars) as ridiculous. Until...

Being fat is a symptom of something else. Some might say 'yeh, eating'. And they'd be right. However, others with greater depth than the...

When you've pressed pause on stuffing your face or knocking back the grog in the evening, then that leaves a bit of time to fill in. And...

Second weigh-in milestone of the diet and despite being a cheese munching and beer swilling diet-buster during the week, I managed to do...

It's really important when you're dieting to set sensible goals. That's what the experts say anyway. I also think that's exactly the same...

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...

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

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...