Beware the Crepes of March!

[QueenQueenie]

Well someone had to do it as my last post was number 999...

Our cholesterol levels have gone right down on this diet. The principle is that the fat you eat doesn't turn into dietary fat and sugar is the enemy not fat (Zoe Harcombe et al). OH was bordering type 2 diabetes but those levels have dropped too and he has been taken off statins. I have lost 15kg and he has lost 25kg over a year. It really does work, but takes time and planning, which is easy when you don't have to go to work, but not if you do.
The irony is that we never have eaten much sugar, but cutting out potatoes, rice, white flour and fruit juice obviously made enough of a difference. The small portions are significant too I think. I also think it is much easier to resist temptation in rural France. We just can't get takeaways, or coffee with cake or all the lovely temptations in England.
You just have to stay out of the patisserie.

Cremo, you iron?!

Molly, great! I am now wondering if you spotted us at MI's 50th - I was drunkenly talking to a lovely woman who turned out to be a teacher at the DC's primary and knew DS well Rudy was pole dancing

15/25kg over a year is great - I would be happy just to lose 5 or so. I must try to give up so much sugar I agree, I bet it might be easier en France without so much crap and café culture abounding. My French friends are VERY healthy (about as rural as it gets) apart from when we come and he gets to eat kg's of cheese and drink litres of wine!

BTM, I was with dh so I won't have noticed anyone much; I daresay we stuck to People We Knew.

On the food front, I am going to sneak across the channel and live in EmilyAlice's garden shed so that she can prepare all my food for me. Sounds wonderful .

Sorry, but I'm still for moderation in all things (unless they actually make you ill) and don't want to lose any weight because I would then look 150 rather than 80. Life is too short to up stuff unless you, really, really need to. But then I was eating disordered for about 15 years and worked long and hard to get back to food normality. Would rather have a wobbly midriff at 50 than go back to restricting myself and also do not wish to spend any more hours in the kitchen than I have to. Used to have a veg patch, but now just grow raspberries and salad, as it all took too much time and no one helped, although they were always happy to eat the produce. I do like my chickens, but don't really have enough time for them. Anyone want to rent my garden??

Yes I iron. But mostly dh does. Sometimes I like a good movie and a marathon iron. Today I am wrestling with linen napkins and tablecloths, ( recent dinner partee) which are heirlooms and need starching etc. I don't trust poor dh to do it.
I have the quite appallingly sexist racist ageist, just IST !! Octopussy 007on. We are at the anachronisms.

Uh "give up stuff"..

What is the carb status of nuts? I do like a nut. Breakfast of Greek yog, blueberries and almonds would do me fine, and frequently does. Lunch of omelette or similar, and some kind of protein + cauliflower + other veg would be easy enough. But I'd need my nuts as snacks...

Crem, thanks for the sympathy. I know I'm having just a tiny taste of what you're going through, though.

Me too Stropps. However, I am not very good at putting it into practice!

We were out with friends last night. One of the couples are early 70's but look way younger and are even slimmer than they were 15/20 years ago. Because it is just them at home (their DD's are DH's age!) and they have plenty of time, they are able to stick to a healthy eating regime. So that is something to look forward to!

What about 2 on Sunday, Molly? And anyone else!

Did someone mention an Easter Meetup?

Ah, found it!

Friday 24th or May 8th - both fine for me ATM. And I will need copious amounts of GCSE-nerve-settling alcohol by then!

lol, only a couple more years until dh hits 70 and there's no chance of interesting him in no sugar and cauliflower mash. But then, despite his rotundity, there's nowt wrong with his cholesterol or his sugar levels. So the GP says he's fine as he is.

2pm next Sunday it is - it's in the diary.

Also available for Easter.

I do envy you your chickens, Stropps. And yes, raspberries are the perfect crop, thriving on neglect and taking over without being asked.

Oh yes to Easter meetup.

Our garden is mercifully too small to grow veg. I did try last year, sowing five different sorts of seeds, lovingly pricking them out, hardening them off, etc etc, and after months of loving attention just ended up with one (1, I) chard plant. And I don't even like chard. We now just cook up whatever comes in our Riverford box.

I agree with you in principle, Stropps, but my moderation doesn't seem to be working. Not helped by lack of exercise, other than the brisk school run walk. Though I did do a Davina workout yesterday. Seems to not yet have shifted my belly, however.

So is Friday 24th April better as it is nearer Easter?!

Beachy
BD
BTM
Molly
MI

I do quite a bit of exercise, so I am at least fit if not thin!

24 April would be fine by me!

Tell you what, I go out with my Freaks from the Internet more than I do with my Normal Friends.

24 April would be good for me.

I've just remembered something I've commented on to others: dh does not really enjoy social events very much - with the notable exception of MI's parties. There's something in that, y'know. more parties please MI
Anyway, at least he's not envious when I go off on my own with my internetty friends.

Friday 24th April!

Beachy
BD
BTM
Molly
MI
Herbs

Please add yourself those of you who are not yet on the list!

heh, my Dm was also giving me her standard lecture about the evils of too much violent exercise. Only leads to joint replacements, according to her. I fear she may be correct to some extent. She's having a hard time not shouting "I told you so" at me about the exercise thing anyway.

Er, anyway, BTM, you do not need to lose any weight!!!

Actually, Herbs, neither do you!!

What was that Crepey mantra about not beating ourselves up, again...
Be kind to yourselves! Although of course this may well include regimes of whatever flavours float your boat and get you off statins.

I don't like social things much either, but love a crepey meet up ;)

Here the meal was, erm, fraught....which led to me, birthday girl and other mate down one end drinking white wine so that birthday girl did not stab other half... Ho hum... Can't people just get it isn't about them?

Just a doggy update before I pile into bed - (thought I'd treat myself and sleep in my bed, not on the dog beds tonight). Dylan is staying in hospital tonight - not making fantastic progress unfortunately, but stable. Thanks for all your thoughts, Crepeys.....

If this wind and rain doesn't stop, I'll be swimming to the station tomorrow. Actually, I so don't want to go to work that I'm wondering if the sick dog and/or flooding may be a suitable excuse to WFH.

I've just had roast chicken and roasties and although I'm fat as a house at the moment, I just don't care. I know I will at some point, but my brain is on overload function as it is.