Struggling to lose weight? It’s not your fault – blame your friends | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
I’m an impressionable eater – like many others. New research throws light on why we might opt for the unhealthy choice
As we approach Christmas party time, I make my usual annual psychological commitment: time to get healthy, I tell myself, so that December’s excess doesn’t have too much of an impact on my waistline. I vouch to get off the sauce, get on the exercise bike a bit more, stop eating so much cheese. Somehow, I decide, this will result in a new, fit, lithe me.
But there is a problem. The problem is that I made
