26th October 2013
A healthy attitude is contagious
but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. Tom Stoppard
I had my massage yesterday and it
was awesome, really helped to loosen up my shoulders and legs, then I nipped to
the shop for supplies and who’d have thought that carrying a few shopping bags to the car could put
strain on your neck! A few more days of
healing needed I think, an easy weekend for me for sure, although I’ve been
awake since 2.30am for some reason, so I decided to get up, I can have a snooze
later if I get tired again.
Whilst I was at the Chi Rooms, a
mom came out of the treatment room with her little boy, he’d been really good
in there playing with toys whilst mommy had her legs waxed or whatever she had
done. He spotted the tub of treats on
the counter and they gave him a lollypop – his face lit up with joy! That’s my friends is where it all starts,
what chance have we got really but to have a love of food? It starts from the day we are born doesn’t it
and throughout our lives food is continually used as a treat / to make us happy
/ as a reward / to cheer us up etc etc etc and so continues to build our
emotional attachment with nice food.
Of course it’s not a bad thing, as
long as that emotional attachment doesn’t start to become a problem,
unfortunately for a great number of people it causes a weight problem which is
then difficult to get to grips with.
Not easy living life a human being
is it! It’s a damn sight better than the
alternative though!
Now and again I see posts on facebook
showing great ProPoint finds and sometimes they’re right but sometimes they’re
wrong, one that I noticed the other day was for gravy granules by Goldenfry,
they’d put that you got 10 x 5g spoonfuls for 0pp – nope unfortunately not -you
might get 10 x 5g of made up gravy for that!
I bought a tub in Home Bargains yesterday to check and the nutritional info
on the tub states “made up as directed” and you’d use 4 tsps (20g) to make
250ml which would be 3pp, so yes you could have a couple of tablespoons and
call it zero, but that wouldn’t be enough for a meal. I’ve checked on Weight Watchers esource and
it’s incorrect on there too, they’ve got it as 10 x 5g spoonfuls for 0pp but
that isn’t for the granules trust me it’s for the gravy. If it looks too good to be true – it usually
is, even Weight Watchers esource has mistakes on it, and I will inform them of
this one.
Packaging can be very misleading
and the most misleading line on there is probably when they use the “made up as
directed” line! It especially gets
people with pasta pots and supernoodles I’ve noticed a lot with my members, it’s
when water has to be added to a product that confusion sets in. It isn’t that the water mades it more
ProPoints, it’s that they’ve worked out the nutrition of the food from it’s
ready to serve / cooked condition rather than its raw state. I hope that makes sense!
Anyway as of today I’m back on
track, I’ve had my time off due to being poorly, and I’m happy to say I didn’t
gain weight, I didn’t lose it either but hey ho. I’ve decided to do Filling and Healthy for a
few days so that I’m eating super healthy and controlling my intake of treats/junk/wine etc. I’m also not 100% so eating really well can
only help my recovery and I want to keep things simple and you don’t get much
simpler than the Filling & Healthy plan.
I think I’ll go back to sharing my
meals/tracker with you for a few days to encourage me to stay on track – it’s
amazing how much better behaved you are when you’re sharing, I know one Debbie who’ll
be glad I’m doing that!
So here’s to a day of Eating
Gorgeous, healthy and happy all the way.
Have a great day. xx
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