This one really made me giggle so I'm sharing it with you...just because it's raining and we could always do with a laugh...A woman involved in a Weight Watchers demonstration at a supermarket has been arrested after shoplifting cupcakes and other items, according to a police report.

I did wonder what a Weight Watchers demonstration would entail...I was imagining placards and fat women shouting "Down with saturated fat"...however, a loss-prevention official told police that Kelly L. Barber, 47, was in the Publix store last week,

"conducting a demo for Weight Watchers."

The official said she saw Barber conceal store items in a blue bin and leave the store without paying for the goods, which included Weight Watchers cupcakes, a book and teeth-whitening strips.

"When questioned, Kelly explained she just wanted to whiten her teeth and stated it was stupid she stole the items as she had never done this before," the report states.

"Kelly did not have an explanation for all the other items."

Barber, of Fort Pierce, Fla., faces a retail theft charge. Hmmm. I find it ironic and amusing in a sick kinda way that someone representing the biggest, richest weight loss conglomerate in the whole wide world (OK, if you have any arguments about my financial knowledge, please feel free to comment) was caught pinching CUPCAKES...

Now in my twisted imagination I am picturing her class leader reassuring her in a soothing voice, "Now now Kelly, it's alright. They were within your points allowance..."

Thought you'd heard it all when it comes to get-thin-quick quackery? Think again! I had a fantastic e-mail from the lovely ladies at Beyond Chocolate the other day, and here it is for you in all it's glory.

Want to lose weight fast? Why not try the lip gloss that leaves you both energized and beautiful". We kid you not.

Too Faced FUZE Slenderize Guilt-Free Gloss, to give it its full tongue-twister of a name, is "the first lip gloss on the market to fuse beauty and fitness benefits." Really? A lip gloss can make you fit? Couch potatoes of the world, rejoice! Apparently, "application of this long-lasting, high-shine formula actually helps suppress one's appetite for food without sacrificing delicious glamour." Just what we've all been waiting for, eh? Now we can lie supine on the sofa, wearing little more than a come-hither glossy smile, as mealtimes come and go unnoticed and the pounds just melt away.

Made by Coca-Cola and inspired by its FUZE Slenderize range of soft drinks, Guilt-Free Gloss, they tell us, is infused with energy-boosting, appetite-curbing chromium, L-carnitine and super citrimax (huh?) and available in three "high-impact" (what, like aerobics?) fruit flavours, including Dragonfruit Lime, Strawberry Melon and Blueberry Raspberry. Heaven help anyone you kiss...

It has quickly became a "celebrity favourite", attracting the likes of Jessica Simpson, Katie Holmes and personal trainers such as Harley Pasternak (?!) "who stocks the beverage in his LA workout studio for his clients such as Eva Mendes and Kanye West". Kanye West wears lip gloss? Now we know he's partial to a bit of bling, but, really, we had no idea that his love of sparkle and shine went that far...

"Too Faced FUZE Slenderize Guilt Free Lip Gloss offers delectable shine with zero remorse!" the press release concludes, triumphantly. Maybe you'll feel remorse, Coca-Cola, when we come round your place and give you a fat lip for taking us smart, savvy women for suckers!

However, for every one of us who isn't hoodwinked into purchasing products like these, there are hundreds of women who are. Slimmers who think that relying on artificial appetite suppressants, rather than simply stopping when you're satisfied, is the secret. Dieters who are desperate enough to do anything and buy anything to reach weight-loss nirvana that they'll spend a tenner on a lip gloss that offers nothing more than the lustre of fool's gold.

....and I know you're all far too clever to be taken in by this sort of marketing ploy, but just think - there are people out there who actually THINK you can lose weight by using a lip gloss. Save your money girls, spend it on something colourful from the Boots counter, it'll do you far more good...

If you want to beat the diet trap, you'll have to learn to take your instructions from a very important source....yourself! Sue Thomason explains how.

I’ve just started trying out intuitive eating after many years on and off diets with no lasting results. I’ve been on a few internet sites and I can’t figure out whether I’m allowed to weigh myself or if eating intuitively means I can eat things like chips just because I feel like it. My friend swears by it but I’m worried that I’ll gain weight.

Briony, 24, Nottingham

Hi Briony,

Intuitive eating is a very good way to live if you’re a compulsive overeater because it puts you back in the driving seat where food is concerned. The hard thing is actually getting into the driving seat as you can see from your question – you are asking if you are ‘allowed’ to weigh yourself and querying what you can and cannot eat.

This is entirely natural for a long-term yo-yo dieter like yourself because the kind of diet thinking you’ve been brainwashed into over the years deliberately removes all self responsibility where food is concerned and you have effectively become an automaton, in passive receive mode, unable to eat anything or think about your own body without externally referencing it all to check that it is ‘allowable’ or ‘correct’.

You’re not alone, though. Every single overeater in the world looks outside themselves for instructions when it comes to food and weight (and sometimes other parts of their lives too - sometimes, but not always, they do this with EVERY area).

Even overeaters who are great successes in other areas of their lives and who wouldn't dream of looking to others for instructions about what they should think do it in the area of food and weight. They don't even realise they're doing it. Not one compulsive overeater and chronic dieter knows their own mind in this respect - every overeater is in passive recieve mode.

This is something that really does have to be turned around if you want to get out of the overeating trap. Intuitive eating can never be intuitive unless all of your decisions are made internally and based on your own wants and needs.

You have to work out for yourself the answer to the questions about whether to weigh yourself and what you can eat. It’s not something I can answer for you.

The Food Philosophy is now more affordable as there is a non-coaching version of the six-week online weight-loss course available for just £30. Not everyone can afford the course at the moment and it is important that as many overeaters are reached as possible and given the tools to get themselves out of the overeating trap, lose weight, increase confidence and raise their self esteem.

For £30, you get all of the online course material as well as membership to The FP forum where you can chat to other people who are doing the course, support each other, go through the steps and exercises together and also talk to those who have already been through the course and who are already out of the overeating trap.