Dear Doctor Ski
Everytime I go skiing I find that I suffer from an increasing level of anxiety, I have days, particularly when I only have time for a light breakfast, when I really don't think I am going to make it through till lunchtime and it is becoming dangerous. At the weekend I only narrowly escaped what could have been disaster while consuming a family pack of pork pies when skiing 'Bachseite'. I attach a brief outline of my daily diet, can you make any suggestions.
Hr. Dresser - S. Devon

Dear Hr. Dresser
Thank you for your most interesting enquiry, I passed your 'Daily Diet' on to our in house medical team and I will come to their comments in a moment. Your problem isn't strictly a skiing one, although I can see how you have run into difficulties and my 'gut feeling' if you will excuse the pun, is that you have come to rely on food as a crutch when your basic technique has let you down. The situation is now clearly out of control, in every sense, when you are unable to make a few turns on Blue Osthang without a couple of Mars bars and packet of Ginger nuts. I could feel trouble brewing when you opened your Daily Diet by saying you didn't consider yourself a'Big Eater' but liked to get two fried eggs on toast down you before breakfast. Our experts have made the following comments: Whilst some highly tuned atheletes need to increase their calorific intake when training hard, the 12-15,000 a day that you are troughing down cannot be justified, they would expect anyone on your diet to spend half their waking hours 'on the throne' if you will excuse the turn of phrase, ring any bells? In short, get off the Gröstl - hope that helps. Dr Ski