MY friends have suspected it for many years and now it has been confirmed – I am officially ‘abnormal’!

After two weeks of eating junk food for every meal I went to my doctor’s surgery on Tuesday to collect the results of blood tests taken before and after my fast food challenge.

And they don’t make pleasant reading.

Warrington Borough Council set me the challenge after it launched its ‘Eat well, be well’, ‘Saturated in fat?’ campaign, which targets excessive saturated fat consumption.

It aims to encourage everyone in Warrington to eat a balanced diet, by raising awareness of which foods are healthier and getting people to base their diet around these foods.

I already knew that my diet of sausage barms, burgers and fries, takeaway dinners and no exercise had led to me putting on two pounds in weight and my waist increasing by an inch and a half.

That might not sound like much, but take that increase across a month and it becomes four pounds… rising to more than four extra stone in weight a year!

But I was still shocked to discover that my blood cholesterol level has rocketed from 4.7 millimoles per litre (mmol/l), a healthy ‘normal’ reading, to 5.5 mmol/l, an ‘abnormal’ reading.

So was the nurse, who admitted she was ‘quite amazed’ how quickly my cholesterol had gone up.

Needless to say, if I continue to eat like this I will be seriously damaging my health.

Fortunately the condition of my kidney, liver and thyroid does not appear to have worsened and a diet of low fat foods, fruit and vegetables should set me back on the right path.

So pass me the carrot sticks!

To find out more about the campaign visit warrington.gov.uk/satfat.