Blogs

Traditional ways of keeping diet diaries usually involve tracking calories, recording pounds lost or gained, and noting miles run or lengths swum. But if that all sounds too obsessive - or too much like maths homework -why not consider starting your own weight loss blog?

Turn on the TV. Surf the channels. Almost everywhere you look -- there are shows about looking younger, looking fitter, looking thinner.

There are shows about getting better houses, better gardens, better kids. Even public libraries lend more self-help books than science books - a new trend over the last 10 years.

Ever wondered how much "reality" is in a reality show?