After a freezing cold walk around Stonehenge, Mike and I headed to the twee town of Salisbury to have a pub lunch and check out an old cathedral.  While waiting for our grub to arrive, I picked up a copy of The Sun, an average newspaper, and landed on an article listing the amount of time the average Brit spends on various activities such as sleeping (25-27 years), waiting in lines (2 years), and laughing (3 months).   The average British woman apparently spends 7 years of her life dieting, nearly the same amount of time she spends at work (9 years).   That’s the equivalent of a whole career spent dieting.  It’s 2,555 days of her LIFE.  I’m aware that the quest for weight loss is a billion dollar industry, but when you put it into days and minutes of a single life, I was shocked.   What a waste.

If people would just realize that “diets” will never work, that lifestyle changes, such as sensible eating and exercise, are the only ways to achieve their goals, they could spend less time dieting and more time, say, laughing or reading my blog.

Check the list out for yourself at http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/article2073360.ece