I was a big fan of the Dilbert cartoons when I was working for The Corporation. Even now they serve as a reminder of how great it is not to be working there any more, brilliantly satirising all the nonsense that goes on in large organisations.

There's one cartoon which I would have liked to have shown here, but that's probably not a good idea as regards copyright. So, I'll describe it instead. Dilbert's company have decreed that, as a cost-saving measure, coffee and donuts are only to be served at meetings for managers at above. Come the next staff meeting a large plate of donuts is piled up in front of Dilbert's pointy-haired boss. "Hey guys", says the boss, "it's tough on me too, I'm really not sure if I can manage to eat all these donuts!".

Anyway, many weight loss programs include the advice to eat frequent small meals. Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle also strongly emphasises this. In addition the book provides strong scientifically-based reasons why you should do this.

Now my first reaction to this was that I wouldn't be able to do it. But then I thought why not? I work from home, I'm the master of my own time, so I really don't have any excuses. The book provides helpful advice so that anyone, with a bit of determination and forethought, would be able to do it.

So, I now eat five meals a day, spaced out at roughly three hourly intervals between 7:00am and 7:00pm. The first four meals are small, the fifth is a regular sized evening meal. Now that's falling short of the ideal set out in the book, but the book also emphasises flexibilility. If this regime gets me to where I want to be then that's fine. If not then I can always change it.

The book also provides clear guidelines about what constitutes a meal. Needless to say, a plate of doughnuts doesn't qualify. Following these guidelines, I'm probably eating more real food than I've ever eaten in my life. What has gone is the junk.