If your waistline is groaning from the excesses of Christmas and you want to kick-start a fitness routine that lasts well beyond the winter months, here are our tips to help you stay on track and shed the pounds... To lose weight, you need to be in calorie deficit from your Total Daily Energy Expenditure…

The skies were dark and a heavy cloud hung over us as we drove on roads that echoed the darkness above. We were two writers in the car, my friend, whose first book published by Penguin, which had been a runaway success, was now stuck with no offers for his second, and I a newspaper columnist who had…