Dropping Weight…

- By eating more

We’ve all done it – eaten a few too many pies over the Yuletide period. Then taken the first chance we get, to nip/waddle along to a local Weight Watcher’s meeting, for a little X-tra help to ‘bounce’ back into shape before the new year starts in earnest.

Those of us willing to admit being on first-name terms with the staff of our local Dunkin’ Donuts/Subway/Pizza Express/the list goes on… will know there is nothing, I repeat, nothing more terrifying than the dreaded Weight Watchers' weigh-in. It can induce a cold sweat from the driest of arse-cracks, not to mention the odd chocolate-chip bum-crumb from those of a particular age.

Which is why my heart goes out to the clients of a weight loss clinic in Sweden. Who, according to ITN news (click here for full story), were injured when the floor of the room the meeting was being held in, collapsed beneath them as they queued up for their routine weigh-in.

Thankfully, nobody was seriously hurt. But, I have to say, the story does give a whole new meaning to the term, ‘crash diet.’

- Cheyelle Omar

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