Asked how she kept her figure, the perky popstrel told one journalist: “I just don’t put very much in my mouth. There’s only one way to lose weight and nobody summarised it better than a member of a 90’s girl band whose name I forget.
Yes, exercise is good for you in a million different ways: it will help you sculpt your body, live longer, strengthen your heart and bones and not go completely bonkers when the challenges of daily life seem to be pushing you in that direction.But 90% of weight loss is down to diet and unless you’re an Olympian, you cannot eat whatever you want. By vastly overestimating the impact of very small increases in exercise, the online tool was effectively over-allocating hundreds of extra calories per day – the equivalent of more than four gratuitous Big Macs per week.Īs someone who has exercised five-to-six days a week for years, this is a particular bugbear and I constantly find myself correcting the many people who still proudly declare that they run, swim or work-out “so that I can eat whatever I want.” Because, to quote another piece of NHS advice, with a healthy slimming timescale set at “1 to 2lbs a week”, it might take as long as eight months just to get you back to where you were before you started your diet.īut it’s how the NHS’s calculator managed to mess up in such a spectacular way that makes you groan in disbelief. After all you’ve been trying to do the right thing, you’ve felt desperate enough to seek ‘professional’ help – and the help provided by the so-called experts relied upon in a world of conflicting information has been so shamefully slap-dash that it has failed you in the most shocking way. It would be funny if it weren’t so tragic.
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The “false friend” morning muesli bowl that, upon closer inspection, contains more sugar than a Mars Bar the glass of wine with supper that turned into three the two squares of dark chocolate that became a whole bar. That’s when you notice some glaring blind spot you failed to log over the weeks of what you resentfully characterise as “deprivation”. You’ve been following a new diet (let’s call it a “healthy eating regime”, given the D-word has been vilified) and putting in your 10,000 steps a day – but when you heave yourself up onto those scales the number’s gone up.
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