I'VE resolved that 2006 is definitely the year in which I shall become slimmer.

I have no wish to become a stick insect, but I must admit I am not happy with the way I have eaten my way to becoming well over weight.

I had resolved to give it another go before I watched the Channel 5 programme Larger Than Life: Eating Themselves to Death on Monday.

If that didn't give any of the increasingly obese population the incentive to stop cramming chips and burgers down their throats at a rate of knots then nothing will.

The programme featured three morbidly obese Americans, one who had weighed 70 stone, slimmed down to 17 stone, and then shot back up the 36 stone after doctors told him he had become too thin and to come off his diet. A 39-year-old died and a 52-year-old woman was continuing to stuff herself while bedridden.

I didn't realise stomachs could grow so huge.

It was a real eyeopener to see the results of binge eating and the damage it can do.

In fact it made such an impression I have eaten only fruit all day since. It's just the chocolates I have to ditch now!

Happy stones losing!