Vale - The juice master: turbo-charge your life in 14 days

Let me make something very clear from the start: this book has been designed not simply to give you a kick up the backside on the health, fitness and life front, but to literally send a rocket booster up there!

It doesnt matter who you are, how many self-help books youve read, how many seminars youve been to, how many times youve been on a diet or started an exercise programme in the past. It doesnt matter how much you may think you know it all when it comes to this subject the fact is we could all do with a bit of inspirational hard talking to move us from simply thinking about making a change one day to actually getting off our backsides and just doing it.

The information in this book will not only help you to do just that, but much more importantly, it will explain exactly what is needed, on both a mental and physical level, to make the change stick for good. The last thing you want is what usually happens with virtually every health/fitness/diet/programme you get all motivated, stick to it for a while, start looking and feeling good only to find yourself back where you started a few months down the line.

So many of us are good at the start. We are excited and have all the right intentions. But a massive 95 per cent of the time we revert back to our old ways and spend every weekend telling ourselves (and the world) that all will change again onMonday!

My aim is simple: to supply you with the correct motivational, nutritional and fitness information to inspire you to complete the unique and highly effective 14-day Turbo-charge Your Life programme. I will also show you how to tap into the right psychology on a regular basis to enable you to create an amazing, compelling life where you truly live as opposed to survive.

I know that weight loss in particular is a huge issue for many people (pardon the pun), as indeed it was for myself for many years. This is hardly surprising as we are now in the unenviable position of holding the title of The Fattest Nation in Europe (and as youve no doubt seen thats up against some pretty big competition!). A massive three-quarters of the population of the UK are now classed as overweight or obese and children as young as 5 are now getting heart disease and early onset diabetes. You cannot pick up a magazine or newspaper without mention of The Obese Time Bomb waiting to explode. This is why I want to get something very clear from the start:

Thats if you need to lose weight clearly!

The weight loss Im talking about here is in just the first 14 days, but as this programme will turbo-charge you for life, you will soon find you reach your ideal weight and body shape. Whats even better is that the programme has also been designed to improve the skin, add body and shine to your hair, increase your energy levels and, more importantly, change the way you feel about food and exercise for ever.

The Turbo-charge Your Life programme is much, much more than a simple lose a few pounds programme. In fact, not everyone follows the programme to lose weight. Many people simply want to feel light, to experience amazing health and tap into a level of raw energy they havent had since they were children. Many people, especially men, also want to increase their weight by building muscle, which is why I want to make my second point very clear:

Far from it. It has been designed for everyone who finds it hard either to kick-start or continue with a healthy, balanced eating and exercise programme. Its designed for all those who are fully aware of what they should eat for better health and why they should exercise more, but for some reason just cannot tap into the right frame of mind to get themselves to take action on a consistent basis. Its designed for those who have started many programmes in the past but never quite achieved their health and body potential. This unique programme is also designed for all those who not only want to improve their health, but also need the ultimate kick up the backside.

However, long before we get into the programme which will, without question, change your life, you have to do the very thing that will make following the programme one of the most easy and enjoyable experiences you have ever had, and that is you must

We are living in an extremely bizarre time when it comes to health, exercise, meal preparation and dieting in general. As a nation we now have more cooking shows, more celebrity chefs and we buy more cookery books than any other country in Europe. However, we also buy more takeaways than any other country in Europe. In fact the British spend 7,000 a minute on ready meals; thats three times more than any other country in Europe. The projection is that we will be spending 5 billion on ready meals by 2007.

We also have more slimming clubs, more health and exercise books and more celebrity get slim and fit DVDs than any other country in Europe, yet we are also the fattest and most unhealthy country anywhere in Europe.

Because although we are good at buying the books, it appears we havent actually mastered the art of reading them! Sure, were good at flicking through them, but rarely, if ever, do we read the whole book and get around to acting on any of the information.

Virtually everyone I know has Jamie, Delia and Nigella in their kitchen, but Ill be damned if Ive ever seen them cooking a recipe from any of them. These celeb cookery books have become the food equivalent of Hello! or OK! magazine great for good food voyeurs, but unfortunately thats where it usually ends.

In the real world, most people have all the right intentions, but the reality remains the same. Most of us either grab a takeaway, tuck into a sandwich and crisps or shove a ready meal in the oven, believing weve made dinner! It appears that Jamie, Nigella and co arent in the kitchen to help us prepare wonderful, wholesome food every night, but more as the ultimate kitchen fashion accessory. In fact, I believe a big, glossy Jamie Oliver or a sultry Nigella book is now even more important to kitchen aesthetics than the Smeg hob itself. Gleaming state-of-the-art cookers remain gleaming, not because we are such super cleaners, but because we rarely actually turn them on.

At the same time, virtually every house I go into has some sort of self-help, diet or exercise book on the shelves, and yet the people who bought them are eating rubbish, watching hours of TV and complaining about their size, shape or lives in general. It was estimated that at the height of Atkins mania, 20 million people in the UK, Europe and the US were on the diet. However, what this figure actually meant was that 20 million people bought the book, but that doesnt mean Jack. Just because 20 million people had a copy doesnt mean for one second they actually read the book.

We need to remember that at exactly the same time Atkins made number one on the New York Times bestsellers list it was announced that for the first time in history over 60 per cent of the US population were considered overweight, obese or morbidly obese. Perhaps people werent so much reading the books as eating them! Even the late Dr Atkins himself may have been guilty of this as, according to a popular UK newspaper, at the time of his death he weighed in at a whopping 2501bs.