52 Diets: Diet #16, Carol Vordeman's detox

Sunday 13 March 2011

Diet #16, Carol Vordeman's detox

After a week of birthday parties to celebrate baby Poppy's first birthday, I'm scared to step onto the scales! A friend has loaned me Carol Vordeman's detox, so I'm going to try it for a week. I'm too tired to start today, and haven't even had time to open the book, but I'll get round to it this week for sure...

Not sure why I'm aspiring to Carol. She's a mathematician (I think we established in the last diet that my maths skills leave a lot to be desired), she's 51 (I have an irrational phobia of old people - but that's a story for another blog), and she's from 'oop north (I get a nosebleed if I have to go outside of the M25) - so not exactly my ideal diet role model, but she's gone from this...

To this...

and if she can do the same for me, I won't complain.

1 comment:

Unknown17 March 2011 at 01:17
Sugar, can't believe you are considering trusting Carol Vorderman, she's evil.

Look at the loan adverts, she knew the maths (borrow £5.00 pay back £20,000 over a period of 40 years) and she still decided to con grannies.

Btw, totally agree with you about the GI Diet, also had epic FAIL on it and it's just not as much fun as a fad diet eh?

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How it all began...

The original idea was simple. Lose half a stone. It's not a lot. Probably all it requires is a little less chocolate & a little more self-control. But driven by the boredom of maternity leave & the desire to do something more interesting instead, I decided to give this a go. So, over 52 weeks I sampled some of the diets out there. I wrote about how easy they are to follow, how intrusive, how expensive, and I blogged my progress as I go.

Now I'm older and wiser. My time is fuller and there's more to write about. I'm still going to focus on diet and fitness, but these days, thinking about how that fits into my life as a full-time working mum, trainee counsellor, media director, wife and friend.

52 Diets (plus a few)

100-Mile Diet
6 meals a day diet
Alkaline diet
Alli
Atkins diet
Best Bet diet
Blood type diet
Body for life
Breatharianism
Buddhist diet
Cabbage soup diet
Davina - The Power of 3
Detox diet
Dietchef.com
Dukan diet
Earth diet
Eat clean diet
Edenic diet
Elimination diet
F-plan diet
Facial analysis diet
Fatfield diet
Feingold diet
Fit for life diet
Flexitarianism
Food combining diet
Fruitarianism
Gerson diet
Gluten free diet
Gluten-free, casein-free diet
Graham diet
Grapefruit diet
Hackers diet
Halal diet
Hallelujah diet
Hay diet
Healthy six
Herbalife
High-protein diet
Inuit diet
Israeli army diet
Jenny Craig
Joel Fuhrman diet
Juice diet
Kangatarianism
Ketogenic diet
Kosher diet
Lacto-vegetarianism
Letein-free diet
Liquid diet
Low glycemic index diet
Low-fat diet
Macrobiotic diet
Maple syrup diet
Mastercleanse
McDougall diet
Medifast diet
Mediterranean diet
Montignac diet
Negative calorie diet
Nutrisystems diet
Okinawa diet
Orlistat
Ornish diet
Paleolithic diet
Perricone diet
Pritikin program for diet
Raw foodism
Scarsdale diet
Shangri-la diet
Slimfast
Slimming world diet
Smart for life
Sonoma diet
South beach diet
Sparkpeople diet
Special K diet
Stillman diet
Subway diet
The Cambridge Diet
Very low calorie diet
Weightwatchers diet
Zone diet