iar: magazine B

B = Bodyfit [Launch Issue May/June 2010 £3.50 pp 132]

• I learnt: that you should change your sports bra three times as often as your trainers.

• Surprising fact: chillies, watercress, tuna, grapefruit and broccoli speed up your metabolism and help you lose weight - FAST! (but not as fast as my tincture of distilled snake oil :) - call me!).

• Time taken to read: two and a half long baths

• Describe it: training programmes for doing a triathlon/marathon/round the universe walk in 0+unfeasible number of weeks, what various TV celebs eat for breakfast, and a smattering of smoke and mirrors.

• Would I buy again: nope - see 'describe it'

• Heard of it before? No

How many magazines can you name that begin with B? I went to a newsagent - it only had 15 magazines and I struggled to see one beginning with B. I was rushing so spying 'Bizarre' ("the world’s biggest alternative lifestyle & culture magazine") I grabbed it in spite of the pouting big-hair on the cover and the crappy free bag. I opened the magazine on the train... it was actually 'Harper's Bazaar' - which took rather less than half a 40 minute train journey to read (yawn...).

It's Sunday - I haven't bought a magazine yet, I'm rushing round a supermarket. Waitrose doesn't have 'Bizarre' (shame), and has only one 'B' - the first issue of 'Bodyfit'. It comes with a free fitness diary - unconvincingly stated as being worth £5.99. I bought the magazine on a credit card with the rest of my shopping. I was served by a John-Lewis-polite teenager with brown hair.

[in case you were wondering... I thought a collage of celebrity bosoms might give the post a lift :) ].