Author: Wattle

Winter is made warmer with hot steamed Brussels Sprout, cabbage and pumpkin. I heap up the plate with them, a very large portion. The secret ingredients of commercial brand finishing sauces are great value, just add a tiny bit onto the meat.

We allow oven fries potatoes with most meals. The ones we get have a small amount of vegetable oil in them. Since almost every source of nutritional information suggests that we need to eat some oil, this is a really good way to include it. If you suspect you are having a too generous amount of oil, try to reduce it by a small amount.

Winter is also made warmer with extra luxury showers or baths. The long evenings are perfect for pampering. Try a new soap or shampoo. If you receive catalogues that advertise towels those images are good to include on Collendar pages in Apply.

Some people believe that throwing away the knife and fork is sufficient to lose weight. That sounds to me like a good definition of a “Diet”. Whilst such an extreme approach does work temporarily, I don’t think that it is needed.

Paying more attention to what is being placed on the knife and fork will achieve exactly the same goal but in a far more successful and long lasting manner.

The same holds true for exercise. I think that aggressive running, cycling, swimming, or power walking is best left to athletes who have their regular routines. Going to the gym might be an enjoyable activity and it needs to be considered just that, no more than an enjoyable activity. It is not a long term weight management tool if it can’t be done long term.

Doing some gentle walking most days is plenty enough to lose some weight and keep it off. The key is to actually do it. It is more likely to be done if a decision is made about what is realistic and achievable on most days, in most weathers. The length of a walk is different for everyone. There will be some optimal distance, ranging from from a kilometer or so right down to some small number of painful, slow steps across the house on a walking frame.

Hot steamed apples with a generous amount of cinnamon give the taste buds something different to consider. This is good news because they sure do need something, following on from steamed cabbage, butternut pumpkin and cauliflower.

The Apply eating theme incorporates the deliciousness of pastry. If it is your first Apply decide on a generous amount of it, you will know how much feels right. As the years go by and the body shape becomes smaller, just like other food types, you will want to eat less pastry, but that is then, not now.

Now I know that not everyone delights in eating hot meat pies with tomato sauce for their breakfast. Choose some other sort of breakfast, how about croissants with a favourite filling? What is important to remember is that this month encourages and celebrates a decadent breakfast, different to the usual more disciplined fare.

Perhaps a family meat pie or an egg, bacon and cheese pie could be purchased, or even cooked, for the evening meal. It is good practice to serve them with vegetables, but if you feel like a vegetable rest, now is an excellent time of the year to have one. Apple pie for dessert sounds good too doesn’t it. The proportion of that, or other dessert pastries is best such that there is room afterwards for a fresh apple too.

Buying whole cabbages and whole pumpkins is more economical. The trouble with that is that they have to be eaten, night after night, even when having large serves of them. They just aren’t the most appealing vegetables and no amount of collendar work could convince me otherwise.

I have a strategy which helps a bit. Include a generous amount of corn or peas on the plate with them. Some sort of gravy or finishing sauce with the meal is a must because it makes eating the cabbage and pumpkin more likely.