Slim's Kitchen or Slims Healthy Kitchen is an idea that I have nurtured over the past decade. It all began because of my trials and tribulations with trying to acquire and maintain a healthy lifestyle. For anyone that doesn't know me or know my history/story I have always maintained that I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food, mainly cake.

We have all witnessed countless sporting achievements and thought, "I could do that". Years ago I went to NYC to watch my sister compete in the Marathon. After seeing my sister laura cross the line and experience the buzz I wanted to get in on the action. I set off in NYC and got myself some stylish new training gear, fresh kicks and an attitude that I was gonna do the full 26.2 miles no problem the following year...

I was faced with two problems. The first being, I had never actually performed any form of physical activity other than stretching for the remote. The second and slightly more pressing issue was the shape I was in, the shape in