Weekly Geeky Diet Plans




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A War of the Worlds Diet: Probiotics of Course!
How can we lose weight with a War of the Worlds themed diet? Probiotics of course – the same way the Earth ‘lost’ the Martians: with microbes!
A Pac-Man Diet? This Week It’s Really Silly :)
This week’s Pac-Man diet is for all us snackers, and it’s in honour of the 35th anniversary of the greatest constant snacker of all.
May the Fourth Be With You on this Princess Leia Diet
Since it’s the annual ‘May the Fourth’ Star Wars fest, here are my Princess Leia diet and some awesome Princess Leia costumes. You’ll be back in that gold bikini in no time 😉
All Your Cake Are Belong To Us
This week’s retrogaming diet is in honour of mistranslated fun: from ‘All Your Base Are Belong To Us’ to ‘All Your Cake Are Belong To Us’…!
Could a Breaking Bad Diet Work for a Road Trip?
Desperate breakfasts, peanut butter sandwiches and Los Pollos Hermanos – could a Breaking Bad diet work for a road trip?
Snorlax Week: Time for Rest and Relaxation
Enter the Snorlax diet, inspired by my favourite, the sleepiest Pokemon and sometime resident on my desk at work
It’s the Enormous Baloth Diet!
Join the Enormous Baloth this week: the Magic the Gathering creature that’s obviously on a diet
Can You Detox Like a Snowman?
Don’t despair! It’s a new start, and a great time to try this Melting Snowman detox diet!!
A Diet for Elastigirl, the Incredibles’ Superhero Mom
Elastigirl Cling: The Incredibles Collectible This week’s diet, in the run up to Thanksgiving, is for that most overstretched superhero mom of all, Elastigirl from The Incredibles. Not only does she have a busy life with her three superhero kids, but she is the only grown up voice of reason left, and then still […]
It’s a Clangers Diet this week, in honour of the Rosetta Comet Landing!
What better way to celebrate the Rosetta Comet Landing than with a diet inspired by its most likely inhabitants? So let’s try the Clangers diet!
Suddenly over 40? Here’s your Diet!
Diet Review: ‘Fight Fat After Forty’. Ever feel like you were just 25, and then suddenly you were, well, older? I think the new Doctor Who could relate…
Return of The Walking Dead: Best Diet for the Budget?
Here it comes, every prepper’s dream: the Apocalypse, in Walking Dead form, returns in October. I can’t wait! (And no, we won’t be eating brains!) How is Baby Judith still alive? Will Beth be reunited with Darryl, and what about Carol? Will Rick keep it together much longer? Will Glenn wish he still had his […]
Who would try the PBS Diet? Giles from ‘Buffy’, of course!
Who would try the PBS Diet? Giles from Buffy of course! Was it just me who wished Giles would swoop in like a not-so-silver fox and claim the plucky Buffy?
The Naked Now What?!
Well, I thought I’d managed to avoid it, but here it is: the ice bucket challenge! So I was thinking this week should be ‘The Naked Now’ week, since they were frozen and taking cold showers in their clothes. I can’t recommend ‘take so many drugs or get so sick you forget to eat anything’! […]
Back to School: Hogwarts and Herbology
My son is starting middle school! It’s a big step for a little boy, and I’m gutted by how much it isn’t like Hogwarts. But here’s a Harry Potter themed Back to School week fitness plan anyway!
Lwaxana Troi Diet Challenge: Most Annoying Mother-in-law?
This week’s mindfulness diet challenge is inspired by Lwaxana Troi: the most annoying mother in law ever?
The ‘Skinny Bitch Diet’ Review, in Honour of that Girl from Species
Could you resist a diet book called ‘Skinny Bitch‘? Not many people could, apparently, as it was a #1 New York Times Bestseller. “A no-nonsense, tough-love guide for savvy girls who want to stop eating crap and start looking fabulous!” ‘Skinny Bitch’, by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin So what’s the skinny on the ‘Skinny […]
Eat like a Hobbit, Walk like a Hobbit
Ever wished you could eat like a hobbit? (Tweet this!) This hobbit-inspired week is an experiment: Can I get away with a bacon and mushroom sandwich for second breakfast (ok, lunch) every day if I walk far enough to get to Mordor and back? What you’ll need: A pedometer, or smartphone app, that measures how […]
Jelly Baby? Or Weight Loss 4 Gummies? (Review)
As a dieting Dr Who fan I’ve always liked jelly babies, so Weight Loss 4 Gummies were impossible to resist. So did they work? A little bit. Here’s my review
Adipose or Alli?
Could the pounds go away by themselves? With the Adipose, ‘The fat just walks away’. But so does everything else. So, I’ve heard good things about Alli…
Happy July 4th! Boost your Metabolism, and be like Captain America!
Happy 4th of July! We are inspired by Captain America this week! And since I learned from ‘Captain America: the First Avenger‘ that his metabolism is four times faster than normal, that is what we are aiming for this week 🙂 No need to join the army (unless you’re in it, of course), be in […]
The 5 Day Miracle Diet vs Alien
This week’s diet choice is inspired by ‘Alien’, and it’s Adele Puhn’s 5 Day Miracle Diet. Five days of the Miracle Diet, five Alien movies: Coincidence? Hardly! Adele Puhn is a qualified nutritionist and dietician based in New York, and I have high hopes of this diet as I lost 5lbs the last time I […]
Let’s all Diet like Captain Janeway this week!
Like the crew of the Starship Voyager, I have a long, long journey ahead of me… So my first week’s diet challenges are inspired by Captain Kathryn Janeway. Captain Janeway is my personal favourite of the Star Trek captains, and still one of the greatest female leaders I’ve seen on TV. Join me – we’re […]