New year.....Win Pounds DON'T Lose pounds!!!

Is it just me or is your entire minifeed on Facebook taken up by people who seemingly munched their way through a years' supply of chocolate over Christmas and are now proclaiming that it will be another 12 months before a single morsel of the brown stuff will be consumed again?  Yes, the festive period is now over and now everyone is trying to drop a dress size, in a desperate search for that bikini body, which, if they're honest, probably didn't exist prior to Christmas anyway!!

I guess we are all guilty of over-eating at Christmas time. It's difficult to avoid this when everyone suddenly thinks they are Britain's Best Baker and brings out the Jamie Oliver cookbook they received in their stockings the year before!  How many of you endured, erm, I mean enjoyed, quiches, cookies and pies lovingly constructed by mothers, grandparents, aunts and uncles who under normal circumstances would be more than capable of putting together an adequate meal but because it's Christmas feel it necessary to demonstrate their distinctly average cookery skills with a selection of pastries and cakes?!  So is it any wonder that in the absence of proper meals during the party season that we all pile on the pounds?!

The true winner of the great festive bake off though is, of course, Davina McCall, who will probably be booking her luxury holiday to Barbados as we speak with the royalties from her perennial workout DVD that will undoubtedly be rammed down our throats for the next three weeks!  God love you Davina, I'm not sure where the nation would be without your latest fitness steps!

For those of you more concerned with winning pounds as opposed to losing them, then, of course, SportSIX must surely be your saviour!  This, and every weekend, we give you the perfect excuse to slouch in front of several hours of sporting action and pray that your selections come good as the results flood in!  Somebody WILL win £10,000 at some point so make sure you get involved as it genuinely could very well be you!  Just imagine how many Davina DVDs you could buy with that!!!