Sweets, Fat, and Tried.

I'm tired of been the fat man in photos. This is not self-pity but the realisation that weight is a one way ticket to a short life. Weight is only good on a bike for one thing, going down hills, put the belly on the handle bars and watch the speed increase.

At 42 my father had his first heart-attack by 52 he was gone when he had his second one. I still remember doing CPR on the floor on my parent's bed door to give him a fighting chance. We lost him on the way to the hospital.

Project D opened my eyes to the impact my weight was having on my wife and sons. I felt a little ashamed that my youngest son was more worried about my weight than I was. So Team D was started which came out of a chat between my wife and son that I overheard. It still did not stop me heading out to the shop and eating four bars of chocolate a few days later. Only afterword sitting in the car on the way back and later hiding in the loo to eat a bar of chocolate, did the second shoe drop; this is really no way to live. I needed to change for good and not go back ever again. My goal was simple live longer than my father and uncles that done. Have a normal life span hopefully into my 80s, or 90s, and longer if possible. Cutting out sugar is really hard, watching your diet is easier but nothing that is good ever comes easy.

Shops are set-up to have all the sweets at the checkout or counter. As you and your kids line up they are there, calling to you, the want grows or the kids ask for something. Shops are designed for you to want to buy sugar. What would happen if the fruits and healthier stuff to eat where at the checkout, would this change how we buy, and eat our treats?








I heard on the radio that Tesco a supermarket chain in Europe will be removing all sweets from the checkout in their shops, this is a positive step. I would like to see them replacing it would something else that would help people make a better healthier choice. It would be fun to have only healthy items at checkout when you are paying for your groceries. Imagine that you could only put items of one colour, so you would have the orange checkout, and the green checkout, or a yellow check. The yellow checkout could have pineapple and other yellow fruits and yellow coloured products. I expect everyone would want to work at that checkout or register as it would have a Caribbean feel to it. Now would people queue at certain counters based on colour preference.  Interesting thought.