In the news today it said that Britain is now the fattest country in Europe and fifth in the world! 
Britain is the fattest country in Europe and the fifth most overweight of the world's 33 most-developed nations, a new study has revealed.
A quarter of all adults in the U.K. are obese and a staggering 66 per cent of men and 57 per cent of women are overweight.
The U.S. remains home to the fattest people on the planet, with more than three out of ten men and women clinically obese.
It is followed by Mexico, Chile and New Zealand and then Britain.
That's very worrying isn't it? I had a hospital appointment today and had to wait in my consultants small waiting room. There was eight chairs and there were two empty chairs, the other six were sat on by other patients and I was shocked that each one was extremely overweight.
My consultant is a gynaecologist and all of us waiting to see him were from a broad spectrum of society and all different ages ranging from early twenties to sixties/seventies.
When you walk down the high street you see a range of different sized people and I've never noticed before how many overweight people there are but sitting in this waiting room made me realise that people from all walks of life and different stages in their lives are becoming as a nation, fatter!
We (on minimins) are the lucky ones because we are making a change in our lives. I never ever thought I'd get fat. I was a skinny child, slim adult until around 5 years ago when I started putting on weight and it now scares me how easily I gained the weight without even thinking about it until I finally faced up to it that, yes, I am fat!
How have we as a society got like this? After I went to hospital I went to Tesco and started looking at everyone in there and I would say that slim people were definately in the minority! Yet 20-25 years ago I would say it was probably the opposite. Fascinating stuff- for me anyway!!!
A quarter of all adults in the U.K. are obese and a staggering 66 per cent of men and 57 per cent of women are overweight.
The U.S. remains home to the fattest people on the planet, with more than three out of ten men and women clinically obese.
It is followed by Mexico, Chile and New Zealand and then Britain.
That's very worrying isn't it? I had a hospital appointment today and had to wait in my consultants small waiting room. There was eight chairs and there were two empty chairs, the other six were sat on by other patients and I was shocked that each one was extremely overweight.
My consultant is a gynaecologist and all of us waiting to see him were from a broad spectrum of society and all different ages ranging from early twenties to sixties/seventies.
When you walk down the high street you see a range of different sized people and I've never noticed before how many overweight people there are but sitting in this waiting room made me realise that people from all walks of life and different stages in their lives are becoming as a nation, fatter!
We (on minimins) are the lucky ones because we are making a change in our lives. I never ever thought I'd get fat. I was a skinny child, slim adult until around 5 years ago when I started putting on weight and it now scares me how easily I gained the weight without even thinking about it until I finally faced up to it that, yes, I am fat!
How have we as a society got like this? After I went to hospital I went to Tesco and started looking at everyone in there and I would say that slim people were definately in the minority! Yet 20-25 years ago I would say it was probably the opposite. Fascinating stuff- for me anyway!!!
