I haven’t blogged for nearly a week now. Why? To be perfectly frank with you, because I couldn’t think of anything to say! I know, shocking isn’t it? Who’d have thunk it eh? Me without a thing to say. The diet is going well. I’m back on track after my off-piste not Paleo week in Portmeirion and the equally off-piste week which followed. It’s going well. Went bit off the diet at weekend but then that’s what weekends are for.

Right now I am kind of settling into a four days on/three days off kind of pattern. So I stick to Paleo rigidly in the week, well Monday to Thursday, then on Friday night I’ll have a drink and from that does so much else flow. As I sit here now, Wednesday lunchtime with the lovely sun streaming through my window, I haven’t had any breakfast. Haven’t eaten anything major now since my tea last night at 5.30pm. I was going for the 16:8 I’ve talked about before but it’s more like 19:5 now, ie 19 hours since I ate. The 5 is the small window of eating. So how do I feel, given that I was someone who suffered from low blood sugar pangs once? Read More→

Quite a bit of coverage all day yesterday to the news that certainly didn’t surprise me – saturated fat doesn’t cause heart attacks; in fact, low-fat foods may be much more harmful.

As ever the low-fat lobby put up a good fight pointing out that the British Heart Foundation still says go low fat. Well they would wouldn’t they? After bleating on about low-fat diets for like, forever, they can’t very well now turn round and say, whooops! We were wrong. But they were. And a leading cardiologist writing in the BMJ is saying so now, as well as an entire country – Sweden – as I reported on Monday. So why – WHY! – does the low-fat myth persist? Read More→

I am now back on the Paleo regime 100% – or as close to 100% as I can ever get with Paleo. I still have milk in my tea and coffee though it’s full-fat now, not skimmed, and I still take a few sprinkles of sugar. But the toast, cake, biscuits and crisps are now all firmly back off the menu.

I feel so much better being back on high protein. As I said last week, I had no choice with a broken cooker than to eat easy meals such as sandwiches and toast. I knew it was temporary and I’d just returned from a holiday where free cream teas every day were part of the deal. But I felt horrible eating all that carb and sugar. Read More→

I have as I admitted this week somewhat fallen off the Paleo wagon. First there were the cream teas in Portmeirion last week. Part of the deal, included in the price, who would say no? And they were lovely. Afternoon tea always used to be my favourite meal; I remember my Gran taking me out for tea at what was the fabulous department store John Barnes on Finchley Road in north west London (part of the John Lewis Partnership it’s now a Waitrose).

That was such a treat. White tableclothes, waitresses wearing black dresses and starched white aprons with little hats. Tiny pots of jam, scones, cream, sandwiches, cakes. So afternoon tea has always stayed special for me because it reminds me of my Gran – I only ever had the one grandparent and she was it. Lost her more than 40 years ago but I don’t feel sad thinking about her. I’m glad I still do. It kind of keeps her alive for me; as does eating afternoon tea! Read More→

I weighed in today and didn’t bother to do the usual starving and not drinking beforehand because I felt it was highly unlikely that I’d lost anything; in fact I felt sure I’d gained a little. After all, I was on holiday last week so it’s to be expected but that’s okay. Free cream teas every afternoon, what you gonna do?

So long as I don’t start going back up too much I thought but consolidate around two stone lower than I was at beginning of year I’ll be happy with that for now. Kind of kickstart the diet by not dieting for a bit and then going back on it again so I get that fast loss you always get at the start of a diet. Anyway no sweaty nerves as I stood on the doctor’s scales. Tell me the worst, let’s get it over with and then we can all get on with the rest of our lives. Read More→

I love shopping don’t you? For food I mean. Can’t see much point in any other kind. White goods, boring! zzzz…. clothes, far too terrifying and upsetting. What else? Shoes. Ah yes shoes. Nah. Never been a Carrie Bradshaw. Not with these feet. That leaves food glorious lovely fabulous wonderful food.

Which I like buying at my local supermarket chain and from where I use the self-service checkouts because they are such fun, don’t you think? You never know if it’s going to work. If you’ll get out there without having to stop and remove an unexpected item from the bagging area. It’s just you versus the machine and no pesky chattery chat chat from the checkout operator. Read More→

I’ve often wondered why women who appear on TV a lot look so thin. Now I know. The camera makes you look absolutely AWFUL unless you’re reed thin.

This isn’t the first time I have warned my handful of readers that I’m somewhat inclined to be shallow so I hope it doesn’t come as a surprise to say that when I appeared on TV this morning, my only thought was: UGH! How fat am I! Read More→

Happy October. Hope it’s a glorious October as so many so often are. Doncha just love Autumn? Seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness as someone way out of copyright once said.

I was hungry today mid-afternoon. Had done my now usual trick of hoping a big breakfast would keep me going till teatime. Didn’t happen. Needed to eat. Nothing in. Nibbling on Paleo isn’t easy unless you’re organised. I wasn’t. What to do? I know, thought I. I’ll boil an egg. Eggs are dieter’s friend. Filling, quick, easy, cheap. Paleo. But I didn’t have any mayonnaise and a hard-boiled egg without mayonnaise is like tonic without gin. So I decided to make some. I mean come on, how hard can it be? Read More→