The day after - Monday 20 September

I've lost weight, as expected. I started the diet at 15 stone (210lb) and ended it at 14st 11.5lb (207.5lb). Not exactly Slimmer of the Year but not bad for one week when I only occasionally felt hungry, I even had one blow-out and I ate a reasonably balanced diet.

I celebrated in the proper manner: with a bacon butty for breakfast. But this was on wholemeal bread. I never thought I'd miss fibre...

I'm sure that a week of burgers, fries, coke and milkshakes would be rather boring, stodgy and mildly nauseating. But you could survive for a very long time on it. But the coverage of fast food seems to conclude that as soon as you eat it you'll be sick, your cholesterol will go through the roof, you'll be at death's door in days. Take this seven-day McDiet in the Observer recently:

Diary of a fast food virgin, Observer, 11 July 2004.

Fast-food virgin? Where has this man been living?