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How are the scales looking for you at the beginning of another year? Yes, me too. As ever, the pounds have piled back on. Despite many long walks, exercise just did not stand a chance against the volume of food consumed.

Luckily for me, and perhaps a little childishly, I have never really enjoyed the taste of alcohol, so other than a thimble of Amaretto into a Hot Chocolate, this has been, as usual, a pretty dry festive season for me. So, no weight gain from that. But the clue is in that word chocolate.

My love of the sweet stuff was always a challenge and some years ago I even wrote a book about it called Let Me Eat Cake in the hope that confession would be good for the soul.

By my late 40s I had realised that I simply ate too much of the stuff and thought that if I actively recalled all the sugary products I had ever consumed and looked at their history it might help me to break the habit or grow up, some might say. But rather than curing me of this lifelong near addiction to refined sugar products it ended up as a celebration of the incredibly creative ways mankind has found to invent new ways to consume them.

My problem was that while I could waffle pretentiously about the history of the Sacher Torte cake from Vienna, or how the Rum Baba was invented, I was just as entranced by the other end of the market, where lurked the diabolically brilliant invention of the Crme Egg. Fellow Crme Egg aficionados will already know that the season has begun, and that this supposedly Easter treat has been in the shops in volume since well before Christmas.

So, what to do when repeated weight gain is not good for the health? I have previously had good outcomes from things like the Cambridge diet where, for example, I once shed four stone in a few months. This really works for many, but with sugary sirens out there to tempt me after completing the diet it all piled back on again. My bad, others keep the weight off, and it can have amazing results for those entering Type 2 diabetes, for example, who need to shift weight fast.

However, in the last few months of biscuit-powered Zoom meetings I finally reached out for help to an old school friend who is a professional dietician, and he taught me two techniques that work to change your eating habits for life. He says that nobody but a saint can ever really give up for ever what they enjoy, and that we are programmed from the days of early man to consume all sweet foods in bulk when available which, back then, was not very often.

He works with two ideas. First, Green, Amber and Red food groups. The Green has lots of really welcome inclusions apart from vegetables. Full fat milk, for example, and cheese. Amber is for foods ok in moderation, but Red is for rare treats eg biscuits or chocolate. But the key is, those red treats are not banned for life. You just have to make them treats and not staples.

Second, intermittent fasting. There are a few ways to do this, but mine is to eat for only eight hours every twenty-four hours.

This is easily adapted to, and soon you find yourself having your first food at 11am and your last at 7pm. And extraordinarily, if you stick to this, and to green/amber/red scheme, you will lose weight sustainably. And if you crash off, as I have over Christmas, these simple approaches are there for you to pick up in the New Year.

Good luck to all fellow weight strugglers never too late to change habits. And at this time of year more than any, you are not alone.

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'What to do when repeated weight gain is not good for the health?' - Sidmouth Herald

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