About
About the site
The Office Diet is my attempt to encourage, advise and inspire all those who face the daily difficulties of maintaining (or beginning!) a healthy lifestyle whilst leading a hectic life. It’s aimed primarily at full-time office workers, but I hope everyone will find something to help them on their journey.
I’d love to have feedback from my readers – please email ali@theofficediet.com with comments, rants, office whines, and suggestions for anything you’d like to see on the site.
If you like The Office Diet, you might also enjoy:
Diet and Exercise Quotes – Motivational quotes about dieting, healthy eating and weight loss.
Aliventures – my blog about “getting more from life” (which occasionally includes writing on health-realted topics).
Starting Online Businesses – My site about Naomi Dunford’s Online Business School, a product I’m pretty much evangelical about (as you can guess, seeing as I started a whole site on it…)
About Ali
I’m a freelance writer and website creator (see my site Aliventures for more details) and I write for a number of other blogs, including the very popular Diet-Blog. If you’re looking to hire a blogger for any sort of blog, get in touch (ali@theofficediet.com) — I don’t just do health and fitness blogging!
If you want to know a bit about my dieting history, read on:
I was a chubby kid, and a podgy, unhappy teenager. I’ve never been hugely overweight, but I started thinking of myself as “fat” when I was about seven. At my heaviest I weighed eleven and a half stone – I remember standing on the scales, crying. My constant efforts to “go on a diet” each Monday came to nothing, until I was eighteen and looking ahead past A-levels towards university. I finally managed to lose weight, counting calories and writing down everything I ate, and was about ten stone by the time I started university. In years since then, I slowly lost another couple of stone, and now weigh just over eight stone. I’ve managed to keep the weight off – in fact, I’ve lost about six pounds – since leaving university, working in a full-time office job for 22 months, then launching out on my own as a self-employed writer and website creator.
If you want to know a bit more about me, you might want to read these interviews:
About Matt
After deciding that being a corporate automaton was not for him, Matt Higgins decided drastic action was needed. In July 2008, he was awarded a 1st class honours degree in Sports Science (Physiology) from the 5* research rated Liverpool John Moores university. For his efforts, he was awarded the Paula Gorman prize for academic excellence and most likely the reputation for being ‘one of those’ mature students that he used to deride during his previous undergraduate studies. Matt also has diplomas in sports nutrition and sports psychology and has coached and played rugby union to a semi-professional level. He has an opinion on just about everything but would regard his main area of knowledge as sports nutrition. Matt’s first academic journal article is currently being considered for publication in the Journal of Sports Science.
