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I promised recently, on our How To Eat Loads and Stay Slim Facebook page that I would put my money where my mouth is and post some before and after pictures of me. The before being when I was 2 stone heavier than I am now.  The picture headed up April 2006 was taken at the launch of my first novel, Passing Shadows. Check out my double chin and – wow – I had a cleavage. So it wasn’t all bad!

I was more comfortable when I was two stone lighter though, which I finally achieved, after a series of yo yo dieting in August 2009.

But I wanted to add a further photo to prove that I am still the same weight now as I was then. There has been no more yo yo dieting, thank goodness, because it is soul destroying, isn’t it.

The photo headed up July 2013 was taken a handful of Saturdays ago at the launch of my latest novel Ice And A Slice.  And I am much happier with how I look (and feel) in this photograph.

This is why I was so pleased to write How to Eat Loads and Stay Slim. People I don’t know very well assume that I have always been effortlessly slim. But this isn’t actually the case. I don’t struggle too much today. I just follow certain basic principles, which work for me, and which can work for you too.

You don’t need to yo yo diet. It really is possible to eat loads and stay slim.

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My latest novel, ‘Ice And A Slice’, is available now as a paperback and ebook. Visit my website for more details about this, and my other novels.

What do you think of this for a ‘virtually fat free’ dessert?  It’s one of the recipes from the How to Eat Loads and Stay Slim how to eat loads and stay slim.com. I thought you might like a sneak preview. Please do go and check out the others when you have a spare moment.

Fruit Kebabs with Stawberry Coulis and Chocolate Dip – serves four

These are quite impressive for a deliciously light summer afternoon dessert – when you have guests coming.

Ready in about thirty minutes (not including chilling dips)

For the kebabs

• 10 or so strawberries
• 2 bananas
• 1 lime
• Dusting of icing sugar to serve
• Mint leaves to garnish

 For the coulis

• 225 g (9 oz) of strawberries
• 1 orange (2 tangerines work well too)
• 1 – 2 tsps artificial sweetener

For the chocolate dip

• 1 pot of natural fat free yoghurt (I use Total 0 per cent)
• 1 heaped teaspoon of Nutella or any other chocolate spread (but not so heaped you can get the whole jar on it). It’s easier if the Nutella isn’t too cold.

NB Prepare the coulis and chocolate dip first so they can be refrigerated.

Method

For the Coulis

Hull and roughly chop strawberries. Grate orange zest and squeeze orange. Put all the coulis ingredients into a blender and blitz till smooth. Chill. (That’s the coulis, not you. Though by all means chill too if you want to)

For the chocolate dip

Mix together yoghurt and Nutella vey well, then return to fridge to chill. (tiny strips of lime can be used for garnish – if you don’t have any mint handy).

For skewers – do them just prior to eating

Hull and chop the strawberries, peel the bananas and cut into chunks. Grate the lime zest, cut the lime in half and squeeze out juice. Thread strawberries and bananas alternately on to skewers, sprinkle with lime juice and zest, and then dust with icing sugar.

Very yummy and so virtuous you can put your halo on while you are eating them 🙂

And this is the book that inspired this recipe and quite a few others – some are in the book itself, and the ones that aren’t are on our website – or will be shortly.  In the meantime, if you’d like to know more about How to Eat Loads and Stay Slim, and how to get it for very little – or in some formats free – keep reading.

It’s here! From today (the 25th of May 2013) How To Eat Loads and Stay Slim is available for all kindle enabled devices from amazon (.co.uk | .com), AND as an audio download from audible (.co.uk | .com).

Get the ebook for just 99p (or 99c)

As you read this we’re hoping that the UK will be bathed in glorious sunshine – but regardless of whether the summer has finally decided to put in an appearance, the ebook edition is available for a mere 99p, for the duration of the bank holiday weekend. Come Tuesday morning the price goes back up! Get it now!

A FREE kindle reader app is available for all smartphones, computers and tablets from amazon (.co.uk | .com)

Get the audio for FREE

If you prefer to read with your ears there’s always the audio edition, narrated by your authors. This too is available from today.

(If you’re new to audible, and in the UK, you can get it for free. Just use this link, follow the instructions and search for  ’How To Eat Loads And Stay Slim’.)

You can read more about Della’s experience of recording the book here.

Get the paperback for FREE (if you’re really quick)

The paperback edition will be available in just a couple of weeks – early June we hope – also from amazon.  But the first five people who leave us a favourable review on amazon, for either of the editions that are there now, will get a paperback, signed by both of us, for FREE, when it comes out.

(We’re going to be really strict about this though; your review must be visible on amazon.co.uk or amazon.com, AND you have to be amongst the first five people to let us know. Don’t wait for the paperback to become available – leave your review today)

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How To Eat Loads And Stay Slim will be available for the nook, the kobo, the sony e-reader, iBooks, and other e-reading apps and devices very soon. 

 

“Please do not adjust your sets. There is nothing wrong with your computer screen.”

Ta daaa! It is with great pleasure that I can finally show you the cover for How To Eat Loads And Stay Slim!

If you’re a reader of Peter’s book How To Do Everything and Be Happy this might seem oddly familiar. And so it should. The original book jacket for Peter’s ‘Happy’ book was very similar – different colours, different silhouette, but the same basic layout and iconic star burst background. It proved a popular cover, but when Peter and I came to think about this book there was another very good reason why it was time to dust off the old design and give it a new lease of life.

Stars!

Just like it’s predecessor, throughout the new book you’ll come across various ‘Action Points’. The idea is that you stop, address the action, and then continue. But where ‘Slim’ differs is that each of the Action Points has a ‘star rating’.

You earn one star just for buying the book (did you spot that line of blue text along the bottom?), and with every additional star you acquire you will steadily increase your chances of being able to eat loads AND stay slim. Collect enough stars (thirty or more would be a good target to have) and Peter and I personally guarantee that a slim figure, coupled with a healthy but satiated appetite, are yours for the taking. And all you have to do to earn a star is complete an action point.

Back to the cover though. Peter and I can’t really take any credit for what you see before you. Both covers were designed by Ellen – who having taken our suggestions into consideration, ignored them completely and blew our socks off with the colourful creation you see today.

Ellen is an extremely talented young woman. Together with her business partner and fellow wordsmith Dan (hello Dan), they work for an advertising agency that’s going places. As well as the rather funky clothing company extragged.com

To finish up I thought I’d share with you the following video that Ellen helped create for Sir Paul McCartney (to be played behind him and the band during the American leg of his world tour)! It basically involved locking Ellen in a room for two weeks with a huge blackboard and getting her to draw whatever came to mind to the song Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, with occasional input on the phone from Sir Paul himself. The result is pretty stunning. Like I said, talented young woman.

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How To eat Loads and Stay Slim will be available May 2013. To find out more visit the website here, the facebook page here, and the twitter feed here.

About time we had some more food on this blog – or to be more precise, cakes!

Here is a picture of a gingerbread house, made by my clever sister in law, Angie. Isn’t it absolutely fantastic.

It’s entirely edible, in case you were wondering. Those posts around the little blue icing pond are matchmakers.

There are smarties on the roof and lots of gingerbread and icing.

Heaps and heaps of calories and sugar.  Sigh.

I wish I could make a ‘cake’ like this. Bigger sigh.

Here is a picture of a cake I made just now.

 

Not quite as impressive is it!

Which would you prefer?

Before you answer that, scroll down.

 

 

 

 

 

What if I told you that the gingerbread house was a calorie overload in every tiny bite, a slimmer’s nightmare (You knew that anyway, didn’t you!)

Whereas this swiss roll is totally fat free. Sugar free too. In fact, you can eat the whole thing in one sitting without worrying about adding a single centimetre to your waistline.

 

 

It tastes quite nice too. In fact the first one I made disappeared before I could take any photos of it. I – er – ate it!

 

Food for thought!