The thick and thin of it

It's funny how I turned food and dieting into a big part of my journalist career - but they do say that when you begin, write about what you know.

While Chocolate and Beyond is a personal endeavour which I hope will be of value to others, if you'd like to see some of my journalism in this area, I have written this feature on my profile website that may be of interest;

Link: Andrea Wren: Journalist: The thick and thin of it.

Comments

[Linda]

Hi Andrea, I know what you mean. I parted company with a paper as its 'diet columnist' as I didn't lose any weight.

Now are my eyes deceiving me or can I see a Thorntons ad up the top there?

How does that work?

[Andrea Wren]

Thornton's are there because my aim from doing this is that I can eat what I want, when I want (including yummy chocolate), but only when I'm hungry. For so many years on diets, we come to believe that some foods are forbidden or 'bad', which makes us want them all the more. Getting rid of the diet mentality while learning to eat 'intuitively' enables us to include all foods in our lives, including chocolate! If you ban it, you're more likely to binge on it at some point, then feel guilty, then try and make vows never to eat it again, and so on. See this post as it explains things a bit more;

Three egg custards are not enough.