When my mom’s best friend was dying of breast cancer, she told me something that has rattled around in my head for the past dozen or more years. Sitting there holding her mug, she uttered the simple words, “I wish I’d never given up cream in my coffee.”
Yes, she was a lifetime yo-yo dieter. I’d [...]
16Feb10
Life Lessons, Food Lessons
I’ve not been writing because I’ve been too busy worrying. Sad but true. I function ok when I’m stressed – unless that stress is caused by worry. That is, caused by something that gets worse rather than better by trying to think it through.
I’m not a huge worrier by nature but I’m [...]
2Feb10
Doing What Works
I’ve discovered the benefit of keeping online documents: it’s easy to see what you’ve done right and wrong over a period of time.
The week that I had the most encouraging weight loss:
I ate porridge with blueberries and yoghurt for breakfast every day.
I ate filling cauliflower and potato soup for lunch every day.
I ate lots [...]
So for two days I ate what I wanted and, most tellingly, what required no preparation on my part.
EUREKA! I think I’ve just discovered something!
I’m not so sure that I get into the habit of eating carbs because they have some powerful effect on my physical self. I think I eat them because they are [...]
20Nov09
More About Sugar
Gracie’s post has got me thinking hard about why I’m no longer addicted to sugar. There are still times when nothing but sweet will do – but they’re not nearly so bad or frequent as they used to be. I can satisfy the craving with a bit of chocolate rather than a huge bag of [...]
29Oct09
The Teetotal Experience
I love wine. Yes I do.
But recently a lot of things have conspired to make me realise that maybe it doesn’t love me back.
Over the years, and especially lately, I’ve tried to quit drinking for all sorts of reasons. I’ve been worried about:
my liver
how often I use wine as a stress-buster
the cost
how [...]
9Oct09
Planning to Fail?
Ok – deep breath. This is one thing that has tripped me up more times that I can tell you. If you don’t deal with stuff like this you may be too sane for Talking It Off. If this sounds like you then, welcome to the Remedial Weight Loss Room.
It almost always involves an impending [...]
5Oct09
Oral Allergy Syndrome
I’ve had this annoying thing for a few years – some evil fairy responding to my previous thinking that allergies were a bit overblown. Oh well.
Anyway, it means that I get itchy mouth & throat, swollen lips etc when I eat raw (ready for this?) apples, pears, peaches, nectarines, plums, almonds and potatoes.
No, I didn’t [...]