This has been a special project for us and one we’re very proud of. We’d like to say a big thank you to everyone who supported us through our diet and worked on the television series and this book.

Thanks to Lucie Stericker who pulled everything together creatively for the book and to Loulou Clark for doing a really fabulous job on the design. Thanks to our publisher Amanda Harris and our editor Jinny Johnson for helping us string our words together and encouraging us throughout. A big thank you to Lisa Harrison for all her skill in preparing the food for the photographs and to Andrew Hayes-Watkins for making it all look so lipsmackingly luscious – great job both of you. And a very special thank you to Justine Pattison for her inspirational help and advice on the recipes and for sharing her encyclopaedic knowledge of all things calorific – and not so calorific – with us. Thank you to our recipe-testing team, Gileng Salter, Lauren Brignell, Jane Gwillim, Fran Brown and Jane Rushworth for all your valuable feedback.

As always, thanks to all at James Grant Management for your continuing help and support on our projects.

Huge thanks to all the Optomen team who worked so hard on the television series: Alex, Eli, Dave, Susie, Kat, Laura and Nicola, our executive producer. Ian Denyer played the part of three men – director, producer and cameraman – and we’d like to thank him for his boundless energy and super-human efforts. Thanks to our gurus Professor Roy Taylor, aka Dr Doom, and Dr Ashley Adamson for inspiring us and not condemning us and for all your support and advice on weight loss. Thanks to the ever-cheerful Jane Gwillim, our home economist on the show, and to Sammy-Jo for putting in an appearance.

We’d also like to thank BBC commissioners Alison Kirkham and Lisa Edwards, and Janice Hadlow, controller of BBC Two, for going along with our ever-dafter ideas.

Last but not least, much love to all our Big Eaters who joined us on our journey, some more successfully than others. You know who you are!

AN ORION EBOOK
First published in Great Britain in 2012 by the Orion Publishing Group
Text copyright © Byte Brook Limited and Sharp Letter Limited 2012
Design and layout copyright © Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2012
The Hairy Dieters programme, programme material and format copyright © Optomen Television, 2012
The right of Si King and Dave Myers to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in
accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or
transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical,
photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of both the copyright owner and the
above publisher.
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN: 978 0 297 86907 8
Photographer: Andrew Hayes-Watkins
Food stylist: Lisa Harrison, with Anna Burges-Lumsden
Prop stylist: Giuliana Casarotti
Designer: Loulou Clark
Food and recipe consultant: Justine Pattison
Editor: Jinny Johnson
Proofreader: Elise See Tai
Indexer: Elizabeth Wiggans
Photographer’s assistants: Zoe Russell, Kristy Noble
Nutritional analysis calculated by:
Fiona Hunter (BSE Hons Nutrition Dip Diet) and
Lauren Brignell ( BSC Hons Nutrition)
Optomen Television production team:
Executive producer: Nicola Moody
Series producer and director: Ian Denyer
Food consultant: Justine Pattison
Home economist: Jane Gwillim
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