Author: Wattle

Another very good aspect of having a pie for breakfast is that if it is bought from the bakery, as well as acting as a hand warmer on the way home, giving a different way to practice waiting to eat, and having no frozen pies in the freezer for me to be tempted to have a pie for lunch after a pie for breakfast is that I get to meet to all the dogs who live along the way. Woof, woof! They exuberantly say hi back – to my pie.

I have found out that if I am not in the right mood to make a collendar page I can still look forward to a time when I might be. Sometimes just cutting out images of the fruit of the month, images of some other fruit or vegetable, or even images of some food I would like to eat less of will be enough to do. It creates some time out, the temptation to over eat, or have a cigarette is lessened. I put them in a box for a rainy day, a less busy day, a right mood day.

And they are off and racing!

The green beans jump out of the cullinary BFF ( Best Friend Forever) gate first. They are in peak condition so its no wonder they are the favourites to win the Served Plate. They are strongly handicapped though, carrying up to almost one quarter of the plate area, so they could just as easily be has beens. Its a strong field, any vegetable’s race.

They are all approaching tongs straight now and here come the carrots just look at them go, orange, sleek and sweet, rapidly catching up to the beans. The peas are lagging behind, some are even straying off the course, I don’t think they can recover, escapees.

The green beans and the carrots are neck and neck now. Its too close to call as they go over the finish line. Its going to be a photo finish.

Its the carrots! The winner of this years Served Plate is the carrots.

People live in living rooms. That is where the heater is located. Laundries are the coldest room in (or outside of) the house. Apply just goes on and on. And still it goes on, today its only the 24th day. And worse still, there is another whole week of it to get through yet.

We aren’t really in a hotel where the towels are magically replaced, someone has to launder them. I am the someone. It can get quite depressing. The Apply task is hard, there is no doubt about it, it is the hardest of all the tasks. What is the point of it?

To keep from putting weight on, needless weight that might be a response to the cold, wet weather and happen because of over eating endulgent foods. Even when feeling freezing in the laundry whilst washing the extra towels, it does keep the body far away from the food source. There is so much muttering going on about all the extra washing the task has made that the mind could not possibly be thinking about chocolate ripes and barbecue crisps.

Yes, I can finish this task. I will continue to colour up the coldest month: for one more week!

Does it ever sound like I am repeating myself? Yes. I think it is good to be constantly reminded of the central ideas which lead to slow steady sustainable weight loss over time.

Some things really can’t be said often enough, for example “drink water with every evening meal”.