I doubt there are many of you who don’t remember the pure horror of being told to ‘eat your greens’ by beady-eyed elders at the dinner table, circa 1995? Okay, okay: I don’t know when you, dear reader, were five years old. But I’m pretty positive there must have been a moment when the grotesque swamp-weeds sitting on your plate …

Dear Dieting Reader, So, here’s a stickler of a situation: what do you do when you actually get to your goal weight? It is a truth universally acknowledged by anyone who has ever lost weight, that losing weight seems easy in comparison to doggy-paddling at a happy plateau. Fad diets encourage us to lose weight quickly and easily (that is, …

Dear SJ readers: please don’t hate me for what I am about to tell you. A few weeks ago, after a lot of thought and practise runs in my head, I ‘came out’ to my family. I chose a good moment in the evening—quiet, relaxed, after my dad had finished bottling his home-made wine and (very unusually) didn’t seem to …

What is water weight and how is it different to fat? Fat is simple: your body stores excess calories as fat, leading to weight gain when you are eating more than your body burns in a day (there are 3,500 calories in one pound of fat). It takes time to gain fat, and it takes time to lose fat. But …

Alright, it’s confession time: I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t battled with emotional eating in a big way. And I admit this to you here, dear reader, because if you’ve ever struggled with binge-eating from stress or anxiety, then you’ll know that it can be quite damaging – not just to your weight-loss efforts, but to your motivation …

If you’re anything like me, you’ll sometimes get the feeling that life is kind of unfair. Genetics dictated that I was never going to be a Victoria’s Secret model. However, there are some things that we can all change; for example, it is my current lifestyle that stops me from, say, running a marathon or losing that stubborn last few …

I think if you scroll through the recipe articles we have here on Supplement Judge, you’ll begin to see a theme emerging: breakfast. I am obsessed (obsessed, I say) with breakfast foods. And if eggs are the king of breakfast foods, then oats are the beautiful queen. Oats are fabulous things. Oatmeal is a great source of dietary fibre: half soluble …

For anyone who’s ever been on a diet to lose weight (and stuck to it), you’ll probably know this feel: you’re making great progress, and then right when you’re on the home stretch … you just stop losing weight. That darned number just remains the damn same. Hello, plateau. This is particularly true if you’ve got a lot of weight …

So, you like to carve lanterns out of them every year and drink ‘pumpkin’ spiced lattes to get in that autumnal mood – but have you ever considered how great pumpkin can be as a health food? That’s right folks: this is one root vegetable that’s not only right at the heart of your autumn lifestyle agenda, but that’s actually …

Diets are like fashion: lots of them have a ‘Moment’ and become the hottest thing on everyone’s lips – in gym changing rooms, mind you, rather than in between the rails of Topshop. In this case, the ‘5:2 Diet’ is the dietary equivalent of this season’s adorable pale hues and textured outerwear, claiming the spotlight that has been previously claimed …