Send Gok Wan round!

The summer blight has struck. All the women's magazines are in a frenzy about looking good for the beach. It's all there, bikini diets, slimming wraps, fake tan, swimming costumes for all sizes, the desperate need to exfoliate and epilate. Bombarded as I am with all these messages, which is my fault for buying so many magazines because I hear it in stereo, I'm at a low ebb even thinking about baring all on the beach. The diet has been applied on and off since January and I've still only lost two pounds. I've had a personal trainer for the last six weeks, but I still feel unfit. I tried SmartLipo (see previous posting) but no improvement so far.

What I need now is Gok Wan!

He's the stylist who presents Channel 4's How to Look Good Naked. I find this such an uplifting show. Every week he takes a woman who hates her shape and convinces her she's beautiful. There's no plastic surgery involved. By the end of the programme, the women genuinely do look great. It's a far cry from the sterile and awful 10 Years Younger, where each week a woman is humiliated by experts who analyse her flaws and find ones she hadn't thought about, and then mutilate her with plastic surgery. At the end of the programme, the "reveal" is no better than Gok Wan's, and sometimes they even look worse than when they started.

Still, it's not very likely that he's going to turn up at my door so in the meantime I have to put up with a DH who says "go out running" all the time. Now, back to my web search for beach cover-ups....