My personal journey, as I’d like to refer to it began last night with a visit to Kidderminster to meet my counsellor and complete my induction, I also ‘went shopping’ to select 28 packs of food from the various flavours of shakes and soups that will be my supply for the next 7 days.

Then came the dreaded photos with shots from the front and sides (luckily not the back, I don’t think the camera had a wide angle lens!). These are the ‘before’ pictures taken in preparation for the success story that will no doubt appear in the magazine in the future!

It seems I exaggerated a little on my daily calorie allowance – I’m actually going to be consuming a whole 600 calories a day - plus 4 litres of water!

Well, off to the loo again!!

And… I think I know why her work colleague spent the day trying to dissuade her.

She wants her to stay in "the pit" with the rest of them.

What do I mean? Well, here’s a slightly different example. Someone decides they don’t want to carry on working in their very well paid job. They’ve had enough and it’s slowly bringing them down.

So, they decide to do something about it and start their own business in their spare time and eventually hand their notice in. What do you think the TYPICAL reaction is by workmates?

Is it "ooh, well done", "I wish I had the guts to do it", "if you need any help"…?

Nope. It’s much more likely to be "you’re mad", "why are you giving up such a good job?", "I’ll give you 3 months before you’re looking for a job somewhere else - don’t do it!"

Why is this? Simple, they want you to stay in the pit of misery with them, all friends together. The last thing they want is for you to go out, succeed, and make them all look like fools.

So what you have to do is go out, succeed and make her look like a fool.

It’s what she needs or else she’ll never leave her own personal pit.

You go for it! And when it works out, I might give it a go too.