It seems that every time I go on social media or Youtube or even merely surf the web for various products these days, I am inundated with adverts from so-called “experts” on how to lose weight and keep fit.

There’s dozens, possibly hundreds, of them. And every single time I go onto the internet there they are.

One expert after another espousing on how their way is the best to get fit, lose pounds and have a healthier gut. There’s Slimming World, Weightwatchers, V-Shred, Chair Yoga, Dr Grundy, Intermittent fasting, Dr Drew, ZOE, NOOM (which is actually quite good) and a whole host of others too numerous to mention.

And here’s the thing…

They can’t all be right, can they? Surely not?

I mean, for one thing they all contradict one another. One will tell you to avoid carbs like the plague whilst another will warn against the folly of doing so. One will tell you not to do intense exercise whilst another will promote physical activity. One will have Davina McCall grimacing away on it and another won’t make you scream “Oh God! Not her again!!!”

I saw one recently that said don’t eat apples or tomatoes. Two foods that I particularly enjoy and are surely beneficial to my health; and I adore tomatoes like no other food on Earth. Apparently, instead of eating Gala apples I should be eating crab apples. Really? Listen, I’m not suggesting you’re talking a load of shit there but that’s what I’ll be producing if I start eating crab apples.

All these experts claim to have tried and trusted methods to help you lose that gut and feel the best that you ever have.

Well, I know another person who lived a healthy life…

My Granny; and I’ll tell you how she did it.

My Granny didn’t follow fad diets or undertake any exercise classes or listen to advice from Tom, Dick and Harry about what she should or shouldn’t be eating.

She ate white bread (unsliced from the local baker) and brisket of beef with all the fat on it. She loved fried breakfasts, apple pies with custard and enjoyed a glass of beer now and then. She had a spoonful of sugar in her tea and regularly bought herself a bag of tuffies (that’s what they call sweets in Derbyshire) and if truth be known she had something of a sweet tooth overall.

That, by today’s standards, all sounds very unhealthy. However, what she also did was to eat plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables with every meal. She wasn’t the best cook in the world but she knew the value of eating those foods.

And I’ll tell you what else she did – she walked!

And I mean everywhere because she never learned to drive.

There were no such things as supermarkets in the little town where she lived but there were greengrocers, butchers, bakers and corner shops and several times a week she would make her way down the hill, across the common, into town and then repeat the journey home with a heavy bag of shopping; bearing in mind she was quite diminutive in stature.

And when she wasn’t doing that she was walking her Jack Russell, Patch, all over the place.

In short, she kept highly active at all times.

That’s what she did all her life and I can say with all honesty that apart from toothache, on one occasion, I can’t remember her having a days’ illness in her life. She lived to be 93 years old and right up to the end her mind was as sharp as a scalpel.

Look, it’s not for me to say what you should or shouldn’t do to get in shape. But likewise, I don’t think all those internet experts are going to help you too much either. Plus you have to pay for what they’re offering.

What I will do, perhaps, is suggest that you take a tip from Granny. Enjoy the foods you do like, but eat a ton of greens alongside and then get those pins working as much as possible.

And the best thing is, with the Granny technique you don’t need yet another app cluttering up your phone!

Win-Win!