This one is principally for the gentlemen.

As men we all have a natural tendency to lie. We don’t mean to, we aren’t being nasty. It’s just that is in our genes. We also have learnt over the years that lying is often the best course of action. It saves everyone from getting hurt.

It starts at an early age, when asked “Have you done your homework?” the answer you soon learn to give is yes. Your mother doesn’t get in a flap, do don’t get beaten when father comes home and you can go and play footie down the park.

As you get older and start measuring up – you always add on the extra inch.

Then when the wife asks “Does my bum look big in this?”
You don’t tell the truth. Not unless you want to be wearing your balls as ear rings.

Let’s face it, when we are down the pub with our mates the last thing you are going to do is be honest. Your salary suddenly goes through the roof and the number of women you have slept with suddenly gains an extra zero.

Then comes the time when you visit the doctors.

“Height?” – you add on two extra inches.

“Weight?” – you amazingly lose 7 pounds in an instant.

“Do you smoke?” – “No” comes out your mouth, so much sweeter than “Yes."

“Number of alcohol units a week?” - you pretend he said “day.”

And so it goes on.

Then at some point in your life you need to be honest.

Not with your mates – they can continue to believe you work for MI6.

Not with you wife – she can continue to believe she has the best legs you have ever seen.

And not even with your doctor – he knows you’re a lying bastard anyway.

You need to be honest with yourself!

This is very important if you are embarking on a weight loss journey. The first step of admitting you have a problem and that you need to take action is the hardest. If you weigh eighteen stone, then I’m afraid you weigh eighteen stone. Accept it as a starting point and something that you are going to improve on.

You can tell your mates you weigh 15 stone 8 – keep lying to them so long as you know and believe the truth.

Honesty is also very important when you start looking at your diet. You need to look at everything you are eating! My father, a fellow big bloke, comes home from work saying he hasn’t eaten today and he genuinely means it. He forgets about the 10 biscuits, two sausage rolls, pork pie and packet of crisps. In his mind if he hasn’t sat down with a knife and fork then it doesn’t count!!!!!!

You also need to be honest about your drinking. The best way is to write it everything down. If you write down everything that does into your mouth then you can start to see just how much you are consuming.

You need to be honest about the amount of exercise you are doing – a two hour session on the X-box doesn’t count I’m afraid. Again, write it down over a period of time. Is it really as much as what you thought?

Finally you need to be honest about the way you are feeling. Are you happy at the moment with your present size? Or are you really bloody depressed and eating yourself into an early grave?
A great why to start being honest is to leave a comment to this article. Put a new post telling the world everything .Guess what? No one knows who the hell you are, no one can see you, why not let it all out.

In short lie to whoever you want – your friends, your wife, your doctor.

Just don’t lie to yourself.