“How’s life?”

April 27, 2012

This morning I had to call into the Post Office to pick up a much-awaited parcel and the guy behind the counter said, “Hi, how’s life?” I must confess it took me by surprise cos I was in a slightly grumpy mood having got there not long after it opened and been queuing for a [...]

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WWHDD?

February 20, 2012

There’s a quote or saying that’s just out of mental reach. You know the feeling… when something’s familiar but you can’t quite access that part of your mind which will provide the answers. Today’s topic was inspired by a comment from Julia over at Boyfriends Make You Fat. She was lamenting some of her recent [...]

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Stark craving mad

November 17, 2011

Earlier this week Karen, from Waisting Time (yet another of my favourite blogs) asked ‘why we crave the things we crave?’ She talked about her love of ‘texture’ and craving of bread, dry cereal and crackers. She occasionally has a craving for taste, she says, like something sweet or salty, but it’s mostly about the [...]

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Carbing it up

August 1, 2011

Yesterday I wrote about the guilt that had been festering away all weekend after indulging in popcorn two days in a row. On both occasions the bowls of air-popped corn weren’t additional ‘treats’ but rather a dinner and a lunch – which in itself is probably not a good (or sensible) thing. But – it [...]

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Table dining & mindful eating

June 14, 2011

Yesterday I did a rare and amazing thing. I ate lunch. Now I know that the mere fact of eating lunch isn’t that spectacular. Unless of course you live in some poverty-stricken under-developed country… which I don’t. No, what is a amazing is the full stop that came after the ‘I ate lunch’ phrase. Because [...]

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Selective memory

October 8, 2010

Only one more day until weigh-in.  The numbers on the scale this week have gone nowhere and I am still about what I was last week.  Which was 600g more than the week before – AND I had all sorts of excuses as to why that was.  As a result, I expected a good loss this [...]

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