It was a real hand-to-mouth existence in those early days - I'd have whatever dry cereal there was in the house for breakfast, 30 cents to spend on lunch and a hot dog for dinner. I did that for years. So there was definitely a hunger in me, of various kinds, to succeed.

One consequential change is that people used to get most of their calories at breakfast and midday, with only the evening top-up at suppertime. Now those intakes are almost exactly reversed. Most of us consume the bulk--a sadly appropriate word here--of our calories in the evening and take them to bed with us, a practice that doesn't do any good at all.

Before you go to dinner, before you go to breakfast, before you do whatever, if you feel like bingeing, sit down and write down what you are thinking and what you are feeling.

It's just amazing how much food you go through in a day feeding 16 people breakfast, lunch and dinner,

I'm very good about eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.

I rarely have time for lunch, so tend to have a big breakfast and big dinner.