SO I am off to Vegas - where the hotels are huge and the people are even bigger!
Last time I was there I observed that the very fattest of these object to walking and choose to use Motability scooters to get from all you can eat buffet to all you can eat buffet.
Now that struck me as ironic as these people are the very people who need to be walking the most.
Why would you give somebody who is overweight and needs to get active something that is going to prevent them from even doing the most basic form of exercise - walking?
Surely without their scooter they may actually take to their feet, burn a few calories, get their heart pumping and their muscles working?
It was all too easy. If they want to over indulge on burgers, cookies and fries in one of the hundreds of restaurants at least make them walk to it!
Lets face it the only place that those scooters are going to take them is to an early grave.
But having stayed in Vegas once before I can understand how difficult it is to try and stay fit and healthy.
I once ordered a breakfast pancake stuffed with apple. What came was four huge, thick pancakes stacked on top of each other, covered in maple syrup, clotted cream and icing sugar with a spoonful of sugary stewed apple on the top.
Not good.
The portions are huge, everything is served with fries and massive side orders and they even have outdoor escalators and travelators to save you from having to walk anywhere.
It is hard enough to try and be healthy on any holiday - but it is even harder to try and be healthy in Vegas!
So with three weeks to go till my Bob Graham stint I am starting to think about how I am going to keep my training ticking over while I am there faced with temptation after temptation.
Yes I am packing my running kit and trainers for early morning runs (hangovers permitting) and hope to make the most of the hotel pool by mixing lying on a lilo with a strawberry daiquiri with doing a few lengths.
I will not succumb to the shiny lure of the escalators and will instead endeavour to use the stairs and walk as much as possible.
If I keep up the training I will be able to enjoy eating out without the guilt.
And anyway I do have another incentive. And it is a big one at that!
I have had to tell the tour operator how heavy I am so a pilot can work out the exact weight of passengers for a helicopter ride on the last day of my holiday.
If I go crackers everyday at the all you can eat buffet then those extra pounds could bring the helicopter down.
Now death - that is an incentive.
Maybe we would all be a bit healthier if we booked a helicopter joy ride and thought our lives were being put at risk?
Become obese and face an early death?
Oh. Haven't we been told that somewhere before?

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