The latest fad in dietland is to take pictures of your meals. Apparently this makes slimmers more aware of what they’re eating and more inclined to be strict.

Has it really come to this? Crumbs, keeping a food journal seems like enough of a faff but setting up some kind of buffet slash dark room just seems an iced bun too far.

Our beloved rent-a-gob, Ms Katie Price, has been waggling her Skeletor finger in the direction of Kerry Katona and Jade Goody but says she’s not doing anything differently.

She told the Mirror that she looks at herself in magazines and agrees she looks too thin.

“I probably do look like a lollipop.

“I look at pictures and think ‘God, I do look tiny’, but I’m not doing anything different than I was doing before.

“But people have got to remember that my boobs are a hell of a lot bigger than most people’s so of course I’m going to look smaller.

“If you get an old and new picture and put your hand over my top half, my body frame’s still the same. It’s just that my boobs make me look tiny.”

On the subject of her breasts, she is currently hawking knickers and over-the-shoulder-boulder-holders at Asda (Walmart to our US friends) via The Katie Price lingerie Range by Panache.

“I do endorsements but I do them well,” says La Price.

“I haven’t got the attitude that I’ll bring it out and it’ll just sell. I work hard at it, promote it well and get involved at every stage - that’s why it works.”

Unlike Marks and Spencer, there won’t be a premium to pay on bigger cup sizes.

“People come in different shapes and sizes and if they’ve got bigger boobs why should they be charged more? I don’t need to wear the other makes now. I’ve got my range - it fits nicely and it’s affordable and I love it.

“Before I designed this, nothing fitted me properly. I had ‘four boob syndrome’ where your breasts are cut in two because the underwear fits so badly.”

Always good value as an interviewee, Kate gives cancer-stricken Jade Goody a lashing:

“I feel sorry for anyone who’s going through what Jade’s going through, but I can’t believe she is paid for interviews on subjects that people are really traumatised by.

“I hope she gets through it all though.

“There has to be an awareness that that sort of cancer can happen to anyone - but I saw her on Celebrity Big Brother and thought she was racist. She didn’t give people sympathy when she was on that show.”

And now for Katona, her one-time I’m A Celebrity… buddy:

“She’s been saying some really bitter things about me lately.

“But if I want to buy my daughter 100 pairs of shoes, daughter 100 pairs of shoes, I will. Harvey and Junior have got the same amount.

“I’d rather do that than buy a fleet of sports cars trying to make out I’ve got money then go bankrupt. At least they’re paid for and not on HP.

“I work hard - I can spend my money on what I like.”

I bloody love her!

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The dream had to end some time and it was bound to be in true soap opera style.

It’s been just eight months since Natalie Cassidy – aka fat Sonia from Eastenders – showcased her size eight princess-like figure, but now the clock has chimed and she’s turned back into a pumpkin.

That’s right, we’re all doomed. Well, 99 in the hundred of us are anyway.

According to the Mail, where they call us Britons instead of Brits, because they’re like that, only one in a hundred of us have a diet that is healthy and not too high in sugar, salt and fat.

Just how many slices of white bread, fried eggs, cheese and scoops of mayo do you need to be an Olympic gold medallist? Flipping loads, it turns out.

Enormous man-mountain, Michael Phelps, he of eight golds and counting fame, has shared his diet with the world. It makes for incredible reading, not least because it’s not much different to that of enormous teen-mountain, Georgia Davis.

Seriously? 33 stone. In 15 years. That’s over two stone a year on average, and for a few of those years she was a baby and toddler.

We’re all for understanding, but this is pretty inexplicable. And yes, there are reasons why some people put more weight on than others, there is such a thing as puppy fat and there have always been podgy kids. But 33 stone?

The Grammy-winning star tells OK! magazine how she keeps in shape and healthy. And how she eats at least five meals a day.

“It’s diet because I can’t always workout every day.

“Egg whites in the morning, with a piece of fruit. Water is very important all day long. Protein shake for the second meal and a piece of fruit.

She’s chucking K-Fed his £20,000 a month and propping up the local Starbucks but Britney still has money to burn, and she’s burning it on getting rid of her pot belly and back fat.

After she was pictured with enough of a gut to spark some pretty believable pregnancy rumours, Britney took the bull by the horns and signed up to a £11,000-a-month diet and exercise regime.

Imagine always being hungry and never feeling full. Well, scientists say that’s how a gene linked to obesity causes people to put on weight.

Previous research had long established a link between people who carry the gene known as FTO and obesity.

Having fat friends could be making you fat.

Or at least that’s according to a recent UK study, which states humans are subconsciously influenced by the weight of those around them.

Researchers at the University of Warwick into European lifestyles say people tend to gauge how fat they are by comparing themselves to their peers.

Meat-fans’ favourite diet, Atkins, may be just as effective and safe as a low-fat diet, despite all the other surveys and the founder dying a bloated man.

This latest research comes from a study of 322 overweight volunteers, carried out by boffins from Israel, America and Germany.

The volunteers lost weight on all diets tried, including Atkins (low-carbohydrate), low-fat and Mediterranean diet.

The low-carb diet was the most effective.