Okay, so over the years I have put on two stones (28 pounds) too much weight. Minimum – I’m 13 stones (182 pounds) and only 5 feet 8. I’d like to live long enough to be helpful to my grandkids so I am determined to lose the extra flab. I am the fattest vegan I know. So there I am in the queue in Tesco today. My trolley has plenty of salads, fruit, nuts, tea, sugar-free muesli, sugar-free everything else. A healthy trolley – it must have been whimpering with self-righteous goodness. Then I observe the others. There is a young / old divide. The young have baskets and trolleys overflowing with chocolate, cakes, biscuits, frozen fries, potato chips, sugar-full drinks, processed foods (pies, burgers, etc, which as we know contain the magic three ingredients of sugar, fat, salt, plus a touch of flavouring). The old (my age and over) have mostly the healthy options. Makes you wonder if only the young pushed and consumed our trolleys, how much longer they’d live instead of leaving too late as we do.
Nothing much to do with writing, except a book I bought for a penny on Amazon recently. By William Leith. The Hungry Years: Confessions of a Food Addict. Funniest non-fiction I’ve read for years. Everything, except I’m a veggie, seems to be about me. The moving the scales around our uneven bathroom floor, the weighing before drinking, the ‘I’ll start properly tomorrow’, etc. If you are on a diet or think you should be, then get this book.
Otherwise, I’ve started the third volume of my Left Luggage trilogy even though writer Charles Stross told me not to until I sell the first one. Hey ho.
Hope everyone has a great Easter.
All I can say, Geoff is that you must be made of pure gold. I would never have guessed you weighed that much. Does it really matter if you are healthy with it?
My mum-in-law loved sweets, chocolate, cake, puddings and biscuits. I doubt she ever dieted. She died a few months off 100 years old. My mother had a really hard life and most of it she was overweight. She was almost ninety when she died. The only time she dieted was when told to eat raw vegetables and such to aid her digestion – don’t know why as she had a stomach ulcer. Yes she lost weight but was miserable and in pain. Then it was discovered she had stomach cancer.
I am like you, I need to lose weight (I have managed to do so a number of times in the past) but comfort eating (for me) is sometimes a great need too.
However my grandson gets married in July – will that spur me on to lose weight?
Want to compete in weight loss? The one who loses the most ounces (weight first thing in the morning without clothes, best position for your scales etc) in three months time, will buy the other a box of best Fair Trade chocolates. We will be in Cheshire in July. Not sure if just overnight but if longer will try and pop in for MY chocolates – or will you be receiving a box from me?
(I must go and check on my weight)
It’s a deal! 🙂
Please take note – I prefer milk chocolate.
I am doing this slowly. Not able to do much exercise at present so it is going to be tough!
And NO adjusting the scales at the last moment!