I'm feeling lazy and slightly underpar, so Charles is picking up a takeaway later. Crispy duck, chicken satay, crispy beef and chicken with pineapple - yum yum!!
I can never understand the myth that eating breakfast fills you up and you don't need so much to eat later in the day. I find that when I don't eat breakfast - which is most days - I can exist quite happily on very little, but when I DO have breakfast, as I did with Jim this morning, I'm ravenous for the rest of the day. How does that work?
LILY & ROSE
Here are some photos of Lily & Rose. There are a few from the first time we saw them when they were just 4 weeks old. They would fit on your hand at this age and didn't look much like westies!
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Yeah, that breakfast like a king, lunch like a Lord and dine like a pauper is a load of old codswallop innit? Whenever I have brekkie, even if it's 11.15, I'm still scranny by noon. If I have decent lunch I'm still starvin' Marvin by dinner. And...well... that's why I'm fat. Never really struck me before.... Hello my name's Eattoomuch.....or is it Mr Creosote? Nut evan a wafur thin mint?
ReplyDeleteWow anyone from Charles' GB is gonna think I need me bumps felt... but you know what I mean don't you? Eattoomuch? Well, you'd better cut down a little then!
I love that word - codswallop! Now where did THAT originate from I wonder?
ReplyDeleteBut the whole losing weight thing IS codswallop. Why, for example, are all the really yummy things so bad for you and only the rabbit food is going to make you lose weight? I WANT to eat all the stuff that piles the pounds on and it's only brute willpower that stops me. One meal a day is the only way I manage to keep the weight off - well that combined with a fairly manic personality that ensures I burn the calories pretty smartish. (Now I just need to use that willpower to help me give up the cigs!)
As far as I am aware,in the 19th and early 20th centuries beer was known coloquially as 'wallop', because of its alcohol content. Then a certain Mr.Cod started to manufacture Cod's ginger beer that contained no alcohol and was regarded with contempt by beer drinkers. After that anything lacking substance was referred to as Cod's wallop.
ReplyDeleteNow then...that's the very first time you have mentioned ciggies. That has to be the first (of 12?) steps... a bit like someone at AA "My name is Lenny, and I am an alcoholic" or someone at Weightwatchers "Hello, my name is Chris and er I'm not fat....I'm just big boned"
Just so happens that I know an expert in smoking cessation and now that you have broached the subject in public prepare for some advice from someone who will always appear holier than thou. First up...how many per day?
Fascinating stuff. I LOVE ginger beer (Methodist upbringing you know!) but will refer to it as Cod's wallop from now on.
ReplyDeleteRight then, now to the nitty gritty. I smoke 20 a day - and HATE MYSELF FOR DOING IT. detest the smell, so spend hundreds of £s on perfume trying to disguise it, don't even like the taste, so chew mints to take it away, hate the fact that it rules my life (First thing in the morning - coffee and a fag, and so on during the day), really want to be a non-smoker
BUT...
THE THOUGHT OF GOING THROUGH THE GIVING UP PROCESS TERRIFIES ME.
Please help!!!
Right well that means you must smoke 30 a day then. The process which terrifies you is apparently made very easy. There are plenty of people who actually SUCCEED. Failure is success...ie if you go back initially etc., it's seen as a success. Changing your lifestyle like you have done is also a good start.
ReplyDeleteThe first thing you need to do though is make an appointment with a respiratory nurse at your GP surgery (its a big thing on Northumberland - second level intervention) and get get a Carbon Dioxide reading....which you will get each week. The success rate at this clinic is something in the order of 75%.....I like those odds. And much better than if you try to do it yourself. You already have will power.
http://www.cellinteractive.com/ucla/physcian_ed/stages_change.html
Oh heck - this is the scary bit. This is why I've never mentioned the cigs, because as soon as I take this first step I know I'm in for weeks of misery. Oh I know what you will say - better that than take more minutes of your life, but then I'm not thinking about it logically. I want someone to wave a magic wand and for me not to be a smoker any more. Making the first step is really frightening. I want to, but...
ReplyDeleteNot enough yet....clearly. I could, of course be be very graphic about the possible consequences (having had direct and distressing peronal experience) but there really isn't a lot of point.....because that first step has to be because you want to take it. The sooner you do the better because you can only get better....not worse. To my mind the equation is very simple, so it must be even simpler to an intelligent logical woman such as you! But then again I guess you've heard it all before. Tell me....are you 'outnumbered' by any chance?
ReplyDeleteYou don't need to be at all graphic - I really am all too aware of the possible consequences and yet I STILL do it. That's what being an addict is all about. Logic goes out of the window.
ReplyDeleteI'm just scared, that's all.