I was happy, I ate. I was sad, I ate. I was bored, I ate.

Are you like this too?

Can you guess what happened next? Of course… I gained weight.

Until finally something happened that made me feel so ashamed that I absolutely had to do something about it.

Some of the people who contact me through Green Thickies are what I’d call short changers.

They are trying to do the right thing, and they know they need to lose weight and improve their health.

They are often looking for that magic bullet. Does this sound a little too familiar?

Let me ask you a question.

Could you be suffering from a serious food addiction and not even be aware of it at all?

This actually happened to me recently.

Did you know that there is over 500 calories in a typical muffin in a coffee shop.

Pretty crazy, right?

That is more than a third of your entire day’s calorie gone in just a couple of mouthfuls, and it will barely touch the sides.

Government guidelines tell us to eat about five cups of fruit and veg a day, so that’s about two to three cups of vegetables per day that’s recommended to us.

Do you know how many people actually manage to get their five cups of fruit and veg a day?

Only actually 8%.