The problem I have with every diet approved by medical people is that I put on weight if I eat more than about 100 gm of carbs a day - and their diets seem to have more than that.

I have been told again and again that I am doing it wrong - not following the sheet, cheating, lying.

I did one diet where you drink two shakes and eat a normal meal each day.

As I only eat one proper meal a day I was not losing weight, but the people selling the shakes were confident that I just needed to buy yet another additive and the weight would just drop off.

Mind you - if those nice people at the supermarket would only stop adding starch and sugar to the meat looking foods it would really help.

There are shelves and shelves of cooked meats, all neatly sliced and packed, with the information that they contain 'stabilisers' in the small print, or information that the coating is mostly starch and sugar in the fold of the packaging.