Did you succumb to excesses over Christmas? Like everyone, I worried less than usual about my arteries and liver and consumed far more than I needed to. My particular downfalls are good wine, beer with my mates in the pub (who I don’t see as often as I’d like) and my wife Ros’s mince pies (the world’s best).
Have you ever dieted to shift the weight quickly? No. I start the week a couple of pounds above 14st, and end it a pound below. It’s been that way for 20 years. Left to my own devices, I’m a picker, but work fixes that (as long as patients don’t leave too many chocolates for the reception staff).