Author: Wattle

I think clothes look smarter if slightly loose.

It is really good to know I look better in the clothes I have already.

In the olden days many people ate their main meal at lunch time. Now that the convention is to have the main meal in the evening, the time of the evening meal really matters.

If hunger for the evening meal occurs before the evening occurs, it is quite reasonable to have the meal earlier, eating the correct portions of the correct foods at the correct times if at all possible.

What if I had no control over the time or meal type?

If I know it is going to be late I try to have a small snack of raw vegetables and fruit. I think I would try to reach a compromise about the time of the evening meal if it was always at a late time.

What is not reasonable is to have damaging, high caloric snacks to alleviate the genuine hunger, and then later eating the evening meal as if no snack was previously eaten. This may please the cook but it will not assist the stomach to shrink.

The eating theme of Feburine is all about learning how to eat some indulgent foods in a controlled manner, whilst continuing to eat mostly basic, healthy foods.

On a long term basis it isn’t very practical to remove all the indulgent foods from the house. After years of the enjoyment of cheese-heavy pizzas, and eating them despite knowing they are contributing to my extra weight, I need to find a different solution.

Each Saturday night this month we are home-cooking our pizzas, with my own special, “Use less cheese and hot salami, use more capsicums and mushrooms,” recipe. It is such an easy recipe isn’t it!

Attitudes are very difficult, but I think not impossible to modify. They are important aspects of my personality that I contemplate, acknowledge and hopefully act upon, even if only in a small way this Feburine whilst I maintain my new lesser weight.

I have been collecting a tiny stone from the side of the road each day while out walking.

I would be surprised if any restaurant featured mystery bags. I think I will wait until winter to trade in this month’s stones for dining at a restaurant.

Each second day I am continuing to eat about a cup of Cocoa you know whats for breakfast with whole milk and topped with nectarines. On the alternate days I like to eat two sausage rolls with delicious pastry and tomato sauce.

I eat them because for any eating theme to be successful it needs to incorporate the things we like to eat.

These breakfasts are not designed to last until the evening meal time. In the first Feburine I liked to have a sandwich for lunch, with ham and a lot of lettuce and tomatoes. Some times I have a cup of commercially prepared packet soup instead. Extra fruit might be a good solution.

The important thing is to find a personal balance each day that leads to weight stability.