Three Types of Unnecessary People

The Three:

• • In fruit they trust. Dumbstruck by their apparent lack of weight loss, they continue to eat punnets upon punnets, oblivious to the fact that fruit is essentially fructose, which is sugar, which is ever so easily turned into fat. Yes, you may well be awash with vitamins but who gives a f*** when you're carrying an extra five pounds around your arse and now look like J-Lo on carbohydrates. Have fruit before 12 a.m. or just after exercise. Get the majority of your RDA's from vegetables and quit playing around with your insulin levels.

• People who say that they 'love' everything. This hyperbolic infection pretty much summarises the faults that lie in too many's lexicon. We are inundated by loosely constructed sentences that flood society with their lack of substance and, now, conviction. You can love siblings, The White Album, 18 year old Laphroaig scotch, the snow, your dog, your wife, your neighbour's wife, but you can not 'love' One Tree Hill, the Middleton's or anything made by Simon Cowell.

• Meanderers. Faffing around, doing 30 minutes of gentle biking, on a machine, reading your latest Jilly Cooper novel is not a waste of time - I mean, who doesn't just LOVE Jilly Cooper? - but it's about as close to it as you can get. Interval training better improves anaerobic capacity, aerobic capacity and burns more fat during and after. So, whether, you're doing HIIT or, indeed, another form of interval training, stick to keeping it short and sweet and reap the benefits (see blog post on HIIT for ideas). Keep the chic lit romance for awkward train journeys and waiting rooms.