He who obtains has little.
He who scatters has much. Lao Tzu
French fries, the 19g bags
are 2pp the 22g bags are 3pp, I’ve got a multipack wrapper in front of me that doesn’t
actually tell you the weight of the packet anywhere as far as I can see, it
gives you the nutritional info for ‘per 100g’ or ‘per pack’ but doesn’t say how
heavy the back is, I think that’s bad personally, yes I know I could get my
calculator out and work it out but REALLY I shouldn’t have to!
Anyways the reason for
mentioning them at all is a condition I haven’t mentioned in a long while,
actually because I thought I was cured, it turns out it was just in remission, “multi-pack
syndrome”, mmm I’ve realised it’s a condition where prevention is better than
cure. I can open a multi-pack of
something I really like and only eat one!
Yeah okay so maybe you can, and if I’m honest when I’m really ‘in the
zone’ I can too, but when I’m sitting catching up on my tv programmes and it’s
cold outside and I can’t be bothered to move and make myself something healthy
and delicious for tea because that would take me all of 15 minutes, then it’s
easier to grab a bag!
So as one of my
members said yesterday, “French fries
are okay, they’re only 2 or 3pp a packet”, mmm yeah I know but three packets is
8pp and four packets are 10pp and if you have all six packets of Worcestershire
sauce at 3pp per 22g packs, that’s 16pp!
Have you just gasped at the idea that I may have eaten 6 packets of
French Fries? Please don’t I made them
last two days! And I won’t be buying
them again because I’ve remembered why I stopped buying them in the first
places because they bring my ‘multi-pack syndrome” out and the symptoms are
horrid, you may recognise them, it starts with sweaty palms that start
twitching like lobster claws, then there’s voices in your head that starts to
sound a bit like tinnitus if you don’t respond, you lose concentration of
whatever you’re doing until you respond to the noise in your head. It’s vile and the aftereffects of such a
sudden attack is swelling round the belly area followed by weight gain – what’s
that all about!
So yeah, I’ve remembered
not to buy the foods I really like in multipacks because I don’t have that side
of my personality under control! Do
you? If you do, I’m very impressed. And yet I can leave all those muffins I made
on Sunday in the tin and eat one each morning and not think about them again
for the rest of the day! Bizarre isn’t
it – we all have our own triggers and the way of controlling them is different for
all, you have to work out which is your ‘cure’ so to speak. For some it’s complete abstinence, for others
it’s a little of what you fancy now and again or even daily, and then some learn
to have it there all the time and resist - I bow down before those people!
Well they’ve al gone now, 6 packets of
Worcestershire sauce and 1 packet of salt & vinegar, strangely enough I’ll
be able to resist the rest of the flavours, I like them but I don’t love
them. There’s a bag of the new ‘deep
ridged’ there too I will resist, I tasted one, they’re not all that, and for
some reason that I can’t explain but I like there is a multi-pack of cheese and
onion crisps there that I wouldn’t thank you for! Now normally they would be a cause of my
Multi-pack syndrome, but I’ve somehow got it into my head that Walkers crisps
have changed, they taste all greasy and there’s hardly any in the packet, so obviously
the last time I had a bag was a memorable experience but not in a good way!
Feels good, to slowly but steadily be
changing my ways and sorting my surroundings, there are no quick fixes, the
best way to succeed is to learn to love yourself, find out who you are and what
makes you tick, sometimes it helps to understand why, sometimes it doesn’t
matter why as long as you learn to control it!
I’ve realised I’m happy with whatever
I lose between now and Christmas, if that’s a pound a week fantastic, if it’s
half great, if it includes weeks of staying the same that’s okay too, because
for me it’s about learning who I am, changing forever and doing it for the
right reasons not so that I can go back to my old ways afterwards. What you doing it for?
Here’s to the most amazing day, it’s
Tuesday after all ;-)
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