Diet Detox

After the excesses of Christmas, January is traditionally a time when people start a new diet after vowing that this is the year they will get slimmer, fitter and healthier.

We at The Cakehouse are no strangers to yo-yo dieting. We've tried slimming classes, the cabbage soup diet, detox plans where you can only have mushed up vegetables and water, as well as calorie counting and even the latest fad of feast and famine where you eat practically nothing for 2 days and whatever you fancy for the rest of the week. But in they end they all have the same result, after loosing weight initially we eventually fall into our old bad habits.

But maybe the reason we are so bad at dieting is the way we go about it.

Here in Britain we seem to think that the only way we can be slim is if we deny ourselves everything we fancy - "oh no I can't have a biscuit, I'm dieting". But in the end our cravings get so bad that we gorge on fresh cream cakes and chocolate cookies or buttered bara brith and cupcakes covered with icing.

So perhaps it's our approach to diets that needs a detox, rather than the diets themselves.

We think it's OK to eat a biscuit with a cup of tea, just don't eat a packet. And a slice of cake is fine, as long as it's a small one.

That's why this January we're ditching the diet - and vowing to eat sensibly instead.