Well, that's what I thought when I saw the title!
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Fix My Fat Head
Tuesday 05 May
10:35pm - 11:25pm
BBC1
You could be forgiven from a glance at the title for thinking this just the latest quivering result of television's fixation with fat. (It can't be long until obesity gets its own channel, named Supersize, or Gulp!, or BBC3.) It's a cut above the average though, thanks to presenter Hannah Jones, a Welsh newspaper columnist, who's talking about "life in the fat lane". Jones is 36 and over 20 stone. She's funny, sharp and full of insights about guilty eating. Her main point is that she, like many overweight people, knows what she ought to do but has some kind of psychological glitch that stops her doing it. "This fat-infused predicament of mine," she calls it. "I'm on this rollercoaster where I'm going headfirst into a vat of carbohydrates." So she tries hypnotherapy and clubs called Lighterlife and LifeShapers; she talks to her mother about her upbringing ("It was like a confectionery playground") and consults her slim, kind boyfriend. But a psychotherapist gets closest to an answer: "Life happens," she tells Jones, "and your way of responding to life is to eat it."
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