Sorry, lads - you have to bite the salad - its the carbs. Cut out the carbs and your kilts will miraculously expand almost overnight.

It might come as a shock to those who believe the media and medical professionals - but its the carbs that make your clothes shrink.

After years - decades even, of failed diets, I did Atkins by the book and lost 12 inches off my waist. Plus I taught myself to make and remake kilts, and found XMTS - which can't be bad, can it?