The 4 Day 'Fit & Well' Soup Diet

In case you missed it on the 'shelves' this week - here's my soup diet featured in Fit & Well magazine - just in time to lose a few pounds before christmas!

This Book Is A Must-Read!

I read Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think by the brilliant Brian Wansink a few years ago and was blown away by some of the creatively-clever and often mischievous experiments he and his colleagues in the Food and Brand Laboratory at Cornell University played on often-unsuspecting 'victims' to prove how mindless we can be when choosing what and how much we eat! Being a soup aficionado the Bottomless Soup Bowl Study was my all-time favourite!

And now he is back with Slim By Design: Mindless Eating Solutions for Everyday Life which reveals a great deal more and is a fascinating read... here are a couple of his observations from the book...

"For 90 percent of us, the solution to mindless eating is not mindful eating - our lives are just too crazy and our willpower’s to wimpy. Instead, the solution is to tweak small things in our homes, favorite restaurants, supermarkets, workplaces and schools so we mindlessly eat less and better instead of more. It’s easier to use a small plate, face away from the buffet and Frisbee-spin the bread basket across the table than to be a martyr on a hunger strike. Willpower is hard and has to last a lifetime. Rearranging your life to be slim by design is easy.... 

This book is about solutions - concrete, actionable solutions that my Lab has developed, tested, analyzed and tweaked in dozens of towns across the United States and abroad. This book shows how you can help your kids eat better, control your eating at restaurants, shop like a slim person and eat less at home without having to think twice. In other words, it specifically shows how you can help yourself and your family become slim by design. But equally important, this book will show you how to get all of these places and people around you to help."

Fast and Fabulous Fat Loss!

i've done it at last! completed my new, multi-touch, interactive fat loss eBook! and it's been a bit of a struggle let me tell you!

At no time during the 'planning process' did I ever imagine the whole thing was going to take me so long or involve so many sleepless nights - BUT - it's done and I'm now desperate to share it with everyone who is not only keen to lose weight but also whose lives are crazy-busy and are desperate to find a route where they can access everything they need to keep them 'on top of their diet' on a daily basis by simply clicking a mouse or swiping a screen! 

Click here to head to the 'new book' page on my site where you can learn more about it, watch a couple of videos which explain how it works in more depth, have a swatch at a few screenshots from the book plus a link to iBooks where the book can be downloaded at just £6.99/€8.99/$9.99 onto your Mac, iPad or iPhone

Welcome to Diet Secrets Uncovered

A new site and a new blog - exciting times! The new series of books have taken some considerable time to bring together but I hope you will find them as interesting to read as I found them to write. Research into how to get healthier and stay healthier is moving at pace so I plan to blog at pace to keep you up to speed!

As you will note on the home page, each book is aimed at a different audience and each presents a wealth of information on not only why you may be struggling to make your diet work for you so you feel better, look better and if need be - lose weight but also provides a choice of diets, exercise suggestions and supplement considerations that are going to help you see results - fast!

I spend half my life writing and the other half cooking and experimenting with foods to ensure that every meal and snack in the diets I devise are delicious and nutritious so if you enjoy spending just a little bit of time in the kitchen, I hope you will enjoy preparing some or all of the recipes in the Diet Secrets Uncovered books. Most are quick to prepare like the Crispy-Topped Fish below and many are transportable for packed lunches and on-the-go snacks and I will shortly be introducing a recipes page so you can download a few and make them part of your culinary repertoire!