h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well, I'm not sure if this will end up meriting an entry into the Guide, so let's do it here instead for now.

I am on the big Diet and Exercise experiment. I am attempting to become an exercise addict again, so for the next six weeks there will be:

NO alcohol
NO chocolate
NO sweeties

Instead I am going to try out a traditionally Scottish diet, lots of oats and a bit of meat. The main thing I will be cutting out is processed food - so out goes hydrogenated fats (you would not believe the amount of food that particular nasty is in), sweeteners, added salt, colouring...

I'm really looking forward to a nice plate of neeps and haggis. I'm sure low-fat diet followers all over the country would be choking on their bran flakes to think that I'm actually thinking of eating haggis on a diet - but it's full of goodness! Heart! Lights! Liver! Oatmeal! Yum yum! And perfect fuel for my silly schedule of exercise. How on earth I will fit in three hours exercise everyday, I don't know.

Should be interesting, particularly after watching C4's Race to Size 00 last night. Eugghhh... so skinny. Like dressing a toast rack. No, I'm not jealous...