Being someone who is overweight I have tried lots of diets over the past 10 years to try and shed the pounds and most of them I have failed miserably at.

There are other options such as surgery (no thank you) but the one option that I have seen becoming increasingly popular over the past couple of years are diet pills such as Lipovox.

I was always under the impression that diet pills do not work but apparently they do work but not in the way we imagine. They do not magicly remove the fat that we have gained, what they do is use various chemicals to help reduce our appitite so we don’t feel as hungry.

I do not know anyone who uses such products but a quick search on the internet reveals many glowing testimonials. Whilst they may work for other people I think more exercise on my part will work even better than putting even more chemicals into my body.

I made the short trip to Leyton to watch them take on Millwall. I wanted to go into the away end but the tickets were sold within hours of going on sale plus you have to hold a membership card and I refuse to buy one out of protest. So I did what about 500 odd Millwall fans did and purchased a ticket for the home end.

The Orient fans knew we were Millwall straight away and although there was lots of banter going back and forth there was no trouble until the police decided to wade into us and remove us with force. I personally thought it was a little extreme but I know better than to argue with the filth.

Against my better judgment I decided to meet up with Reiss last night. I had put his actions of the previous night down to the amount of alcohol he had consumed, I was to find out that this was a mistake.

Fox and Adrian were meant to be joining us (Fox’s wife is in India so he wanted to make the most of it) but apparently Fox wanted a night in front of the telly and Adrian is in and out of hospital with a throat problem.

I again roasted him on the pool table and he again yelled, screamed, stamped, drew on his arm with chalk and spilt his drinks over my clothing. I ended up going home early, mainly because I wanted to catch the Ricky Hatton fight but also due to Reiss being an arse.

Reiss made a joke Friday and yesterday about wanting to become the new Adrian. I’d say he is on his way to accomplishing this.

Recently I have been really getting into a sitcom called The Smoking Room, it was shown on BBC3 but I managed to get both series on DVD for a tenner and have been happily wearing out the discs.

Possibly my favourite character in the show is an old grizzly security guard called Len (played by Leslie Schofield from Jonny Briggs & EastEnders fame) who swears more than even me.

One of his best lines was when he was talking about going to see Mickey Mouse at DisneyLand (“I can’t wait to shake hands with Mickey”) and one of the female staff members thinking he was talking about going to the toilet.

Speaking of Disney vacations. One of my sisters is planning to take her two kids there soon. She has a knack of sniffing out good deals and apparently has found a great one where she can take the kids (and her boyfriend) for about $500 for three days.

Good job I’m not going, I don’t think I’d get on with the crowds, or those stupid fools in costumes prancing about.

Someone told me that one of the reasons my puppy might be wrecking my house is due to not getting enough exercise, so I decided to take her to the local park before work and give her a run. Not only is she scared of the park but she jumped up at me a lot and would just sit next to me and whine.

About an hour later I was sitting on the train and getting the normal weird looks, I just happened to look down and saw that my jacket, jeans and trainers were caked in mud and possibly dog shit.

I had to get off the train and go home to change but I found no suitable jeans that I could wear so I took the day off and went clothes shopping instead. I don’t know why I do this as I hate clothes shopping and I also hate having to mingle with the fuckwits that I seem to encounter when I go shopping.

I ended up walking behind a woman who had about 10 bags of shopping in each hand, was walking one step every minute and blocking the entire pavement. I had to resist the urge to kick her in the back and scream at her to ‘get a fucking cab’. Only worse are the idiots who are talking on their phone and will zig-zag in front of you when they see you try and get past!

Last night I went to meet up with Reiss and Fox at The Mucky Pup in Islington. I have not seen Fox in a very long time so it was nice to see the lesbian attacking son of a gun again, even if he did creep me out by telling me about his impotency problems the first time we met.

I knew the night was going to be a bit special when two drunk 30+ year old primary school teachers turned to the three of us and asked rather loudly “Which one of you lads has just farted?!” Of course it was Reiss, it is always Reiss.

I’ve been giving Reiss an absolute hiding on the pool table lately, so much so that Reiss has taken to celebrating rare victories over me by screaming at the top of his voice, grabbing the pool chalk and marking his arm each time.

He was actually quite embarrassing last last night. He spilt his drinks on my jeans & my new coat, was loud, started screaming & shouting when a guy we played pool with touched him on the shoulder and said “well played lads” and was generally an utter arse.

I put it down to the alcohol that he had consumed as he told me that he and Fox had hit a few places before meeting me and downed some very lethal cocktails.

I will be getting paid on Friday so probably over the weekend I shall be going out to look for some home theater carpeting for my room that I am planning to turn into some supercool bachelor pad that nobody will be allowed to venture into.

I was going to buy a plasma TV that I have had my eye on for a while but I currently have no carpet on my bedroom floor and it is bloody cold when I get up in the morning for work!

I also plan to buy some freaky cool leather chairs, well you do need some expensively comfy chairs to go with that big fuck-off television.

In other news

Sadly it looks like my plans to make a dent in Blog Idol II have gone for a burden as I had a bit of trouble with my webhost last week and they shut me down for a couple of days and I lost all the subscribers that I have gathered.