Secrets of successful slimmers
If I were to write a book called The Seven Secrets of Successful Slimmers (and don’t worry, I’ve no plans to!) right up there at the top would be forgetting to eat. I would base my premise of...
View ArticleI have my cholesterol tested…
Today while shopping in Sainsbury’s a voice came over the tannoy saying they were offering free cholesterol tests. And you got an extra 100 Nectar points for having it done. What’s not to like? I’ve...
View ArticleEat Fat and Grow Slim retread…
Yesterday while looking for something else I found my original copy of Richard Mackarness’s book Eat Fat and Grow Slim. It first came out in 1958 and I have that version plus the updated one from 1975....
View ArticleI should be fasting today but…
Today Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, starts at about 7pm depending on where in the UK you are. Very different times across the world. I was going to try and keep it not because I’m a...
View ArticleEating like a Mad Man
For a while now I’ve been eating like a Mad Man. Not a maad man but as in Mad Men – the TV programme? Set in a 60s advertising agency on Madison Avenue in Manhattan? You either know what I’m on about...
View ArticleI’m a loser again!
Took to the scales again today. Hadn’t meant to. Wasn’t an appointment weigh-in I have with my lovely Practice Sister Fiona. I just happened to be in Boots so I leapt on their scales – shop was nice...
View ArticleLoving self-service tills
I love shopping don’t you? For food I mean. Can’t see much point in any other kind. White goods, boring! zzzz…. clothes, far too terrifying and upsetting. What else? Shoes. Ah yes shoes. Nah. Never...
View ArticleMy kind of porn
I weighed in today and didn’t bother to do the usual starving and not drinking beforehand because I felt it was highly unlikely that I’d lost anything; in fact I felt sure I’d gained a little. After...
View ArticlePaleo better for moods
I have as I admitted this week somewhat fallen off the Paleo wagon. First there were the cream teas in Portmeirion last week. Part of the deal, included in the price, who would say no? And they were...
View ArticleBack on Paleo and loving it
I am now back on the Paleo regime 100% – or as close to 100% as I can ever get with Paleo. I still have milk in my tea and coffee though it’s full-fat now, not skimmed, and I still take a few sprinkles...
View ArticleFat doesn’t cause heart attacks
Quite a bit of coverage all day yesterday to the news that certainly didn’t surprise me – saturated fat doesn’t cause heart attacks; in fact, low-fat foods may be much more harmful. As ever the low-fat...
View ArticleLightheaded and floaty
I haven’t blogged for nearly a week now. Why? To be perfectly frank with you, because I couldn’t think of anything to say! I know, shocking isn’t it? Who’d have thunk it eh? Me without a thing to say....
View ArticleWhy I’m leaving Twitter
Entirely unrelated to the diet I have sadly had to give up Twitter for a while, possibly forever. It’s sort of relevant because I do post links to my blog there in the vain hope of catching one or two...
View ArticleAnd now my teeth are falling out!
Well what a year it’s been for me, healthwise. First I get a Diabetes scare, then my ex dies, then a couple of friends die and now my teeth are falling out. Boy am I eager to see the back of this year!...
View ArticleMaking the most of things
So on Friday I revealed several of my teeth had come loose. I still have them though so that’s something to be very grateful for. I’m aware of course that it could have been SO much worse! You can...
View ArticlePaleo in a time of Winter
Okay so it’s not officially Winter yet but, brrrrr…. it’s already pretty cold up here in North Staffordshire. And it’ll get worse. It always does. Increased heating bills and lowering temperatures. Not...
View ArticleHere we yo again…
Watched a programme last week about yoyo dieting. Seems some women have lost as much as 20 stone (280lbs/127kilos) in their lives – and put it all back on again with plenty more to spare. Dread to face...
View ArticleBack on track
Well after my miserable poor poor me post earlier this week seems I have got my diet back on track! I don’t know what happened, I really don’t. But the switch in my head has clicked again and I’m back...
View ArticlePaleo – The Musical!
Can you imagine going to see an all-singing/all-dancin’ show about… meat! Or vegetables or fruit come to that. I thought about this as I watched Channel 4’s The Sound of Musicals last week. They are...
View ArticleJust another Manic Monday
Turned on TV news this morning – like you do – for the local weather reports. Yes yes yes, I know I can just look outside but I want to know what the weather’s doing later this week as I have a couple...
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