This week is when I finally got round to starting the post-Christmas diet – a little bit late on March 18th but better late than never they say. Perhaps it will be good for me, my diets, which I am convinced are a ‘lifestyle change’ have usually ended by now.

Next week is my annual holiday to the lambing shed. My parents are sheep farmers you see, and since I can remember, lambing has always been my favorite time of year. Despite the weather, the hard work, the smells and all of that, I thoroughly enjoy my week off.

So I am two days into my new eating regime, although I weaned myself off caffeine over the last week or so, and I drank so much wine on Saturday celebrating the rugby (I am Welsh) that I don’t wish to see anymore for a while.

I have chosen this diet after meeting the author, Dr Zoe Harcombe. What a woman. As I have grown up on a farm, and I work in the red meat industry, I am completely supportive of a balanced diet. I should however, stop trying to consume enough red meat to keep the industry going all by myself.

Dr Zoe Harcombe came to speak with a group of us as part of the Farming Connect Agri Academy Rural Leadership programme. Zoe has written many books, but her focus for the day she was with us, was the true nutritional content of different foods. Having been a vegetarian, and turned to eat meat, I am intrigued by her so I am giving her diet a go. Besides, any diet that doesn’t mean counting calories, points or sins sounds good to me!