On the 3rd November 2008 I decided to lose weight. I’d spent too long focus on business and not enough time taking care of my health. That had to change. So I decided I need to lose weight and to make sure that I was going to stick to any weight loss scheme it had to work quickly.

So I set about exploring ways to lose weight as quickly as possible. As I’ve never believed in fad diets, or in the idea of “dieting” in general so I wasn’t prepared to “go on a diet”. Besides I already ate fairly healthily getting in a good selection of fruit and vegetables every day and as I love cooking most food is freshly prepared at home.

That said I did believe there was room for improvement in my normal diet and I recognised a few bad habits that I’d picked up:

• Using a large plate – my wife and I had been given some very large plates as wedding presents and fell in to the habbit of using them.
• Crisps – although I typically ate relatively healthy lunch (brown bread sandwiches with lots of salad) I’d picked up the habit of eating a large number of crisps with lunch.
• Chocolate – although I’ve never really been a big chocolate person, I’d taken to eating some most evenings when my wife had some (my fault not hers).

The first step towards weight loss was clearly to break these habits.