Author: Wattle

I made sure that the bathroom scales were packed in the last box because I was very curious to find out what my weight would be after such a disciplined month of eating mandarins.

It was 74.7 kilograms.

I have a reading documented for Mayndarin 2017 of 82.9 kilograms and for some years before that, directly after giving up cigarettes, of near 90 kilograms.

These numbers are very heartening.

And are the bathroom scales unpacked, ready for the Pearn 2019 weight reading? Yes!

There are only a finite amount of boxes to pack and unpack when shifting house. So it follows that there will only be a finite amount of meals that may be eaten out during all the chaos. However, with a bit of planning and imagination this chaotic time may be stretched out a bit so that the finite number becomes a somewhat larger finite number. It is a unique feasting season quite unlike any other which requires a suitably matching gastronomic fortitude and fully deserves unbridled enthusiasm.

Naturally it is necessary to say goodbye to all the favourite restaurants: the French provincial cuisine, the north Indian cuisine, the modern Australian cuisine… It is necessary to say goodbye to family and friends and this may well be done whilst also partaking of South east Asian cuisine or Italian cuisine.

A few home delivered pizzas at the very height of the chaos are a must have, absolutely necessary in fact, all the kitchen items are already packed, only other items remain to be packed.

Naturally it is necessary to say hello to some of the restaurants in our new location, a rural town with several cuisines represented. Of the many kitchen boxes to unpack, who could say exactly which one would be holding the culinary BFF (Best Friend Forever) vegetable steamer? I had taken little notice of what went into which box, after all why would I want to curtail the feasting season prematurely?

Eventually some new normality has to be reached. All the shops here sell pears

I am about to pack up my trusty scissors, sticky tape, coloured pages and catalogue images. I feel fairly confident that after we move house my soup saucepan and television will be easier to find, so the task for “Pearn” (Spoon) will be happening, I just won’t be here telling you about it for a while.

When I first started the web site I wanted to have a walk and make a collendar page each day. What has actually happened is what happens to everyone, some of the time… Life gets in the way.

The walks and collendar pages only get done some days. Sometimes a walk might happen and not the collendar page or vice versa. The blogs are already ongoing, gradually documenting the eating themes.

After choosing the tasks to accompany us on our weight loss journey and accepting that it is a long term project I think that if we do them when we are able to they will still assist us on our weight loss journey, allowing for some life to get in the way. The outcome will still be good, “Weight and See”.