These shows aren't helping (From Daily Echo)

These shows aren't helping

9:35am Friday 6th January 2012

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YOU would have thought it would be quite the opposite, but new year TV is a recipe for disaster for my diet.

I mean, I like watching puffing participants suffer as much as the next person, but they’re likely to put me off my healthy eating and exercise plan for good.

My belly is positively bulging with cheese, mulled wine, pigs in blanket and all manner of other festive excesses, but the remaining chocolate tin is just proving too tempting when the dieters are on the box.

I exercise every day, but the terrifying personal trainers and all-consuming fitness regimes on shows like Fat Fighters and The Biggest Loser are enough to panic me off of my cross trainer.

The glut of diet shows that litter the schedule in January are meant to scare you into transforming into a bikini babe over night, but I say their shock tactics are a hindrance rather than a help.

My girls and I even like to gather round and laugh at the poor victims on TV – and that invariably ends in Sauvignon Blanc and pistachio nuts being consumed.

These shows are certainly not working as a motivational tool for me.

Bring back Masterchef, The Great British Bake Off and constant re-runs of Jamie Oliver, I say.

At least they allow me to day dream about gigantic cream cakes, steak suppers and fish and chip feasts, if nothing else.

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