New Year DIets

[wjp666]

i act like an astronaut sometimes, but unfortunately it doesn't help when it comes to legalities...

[Velvet Darkness]

I have an intense dislike of Gillian McKeith. I think she is obnoxious and rude. These people come to her for help and I can see that she needs to be tough with them and get some very unpalatable truths across to them about how they live their lives and what it's doing to them, but she doesn't have to be so incredible belittling and personally offensive. I also don't think she has to enjoy treating them like that as much as she appears to.

Back on the subject at hand, I am trying to diet the other way. I weigh 8st 11lbs and I'm 5ft 8 inches tall so I could use a bit more meat on my bones.

[kevvosa]

I agree that she is belittling and so on, I think they ask her to act like that to make her into another 'Anne Robinson' personality. I suppose at the end of the day it makes her stand out more. But she is so horrible to some of the people and never seems to show any emotion. 

[loulou]

and she is very ugly.

[kevvosa]

She is indeed. I wonder if she has a boyfriend?

[loulou]

He must be after her money or blind.

[oldspice]

Does anyone else feel a bit fed up and slightly worried by the number of programmes that are fronted by people who tell you:

 a) how to de-clutter your home

 b)how to eat a healthier diet

 c) how to look ten years younger

 d) how to choose a new home

 e) how to clean your home

I think all of these people should mind their own business and let people take responsibility for their own lives and lifestyles.

I can't believe how many TV programmes involve looking in on people's most intimate lives.

[goldencup]

[smurfboy]

I suppose if people are stupid enough to put themselves in the hands of TV producers who want to use them for entertainment, that's their choice. I'm more bothered about the government trying to decide what should and shouldn't go into food - why can't we decide what we want to eat?

[kevvosa]

I'm more bothered about the government trying to decide what should and shouldn't go into food - why can't we decide what we want to eat?

People do decide what they want to eat, that's why there's an obesity problem in this country. A lot of people just don't have self control, hence the nanny state.

[Velvet Darkness]

Does anyone else feel a bit fed up and slightly worried by the number of programmes that are fronted by people who tell you:

 a) how to de-clutter your home

 b)how to eat a healthier diet

 c) how to look ten years younger

 d) how to choose a new home

 e) how to clean your home

I think all of these people should mind their own business and let people take responsibility for their own lives and lifestyles.

I can't believe how many TV programmes involve looking in on people's most intimate lives.

Yes I do.

It's tiresome having total strangers on the TV trying to tell me how I should live, and getting paid for it too! 

It doesn't get them anywhere because I can turn the channel over, (and I do) but they're a pain all the same.

[Cherry_Ripe]

I weigh 8st 11lbs and I'm 5ft 8 inches tall so I could use a bit more meat on my bones.

Velvet I am the same height as you but at 85kg I am considerably heavier (it's mainly muscle, of course )

[smurfboy]

I'm more bothered about the government trying to decide what should and shouldn't go into food - why can't we decide what we want to eat?

People do decide what they want to eat, that's why there's an obesity problem in this country. A lot of people just don't have self control, hence the nanny state.

Well if they have no self-control that's their fault. They should sort themselves out instead of whining that the government, or McDonalds, or indeed anyone but them, should do something!

[kevvosa]

That may be true but it doesn't work, does it. So rather than let people keep stuffing their faces and the NHS take the strain when they cowp it, the government has to act. I don't see how it affects the rest of us?

[smurfboy]

Because if I want to buy something fatty, or salty, or otherwise unhealthy I should be able to - it doesn't mean I'm going to live on it. Why should I lose my consumer choice just because some lard arse can't stop shovelling crap into their gob?