Thursday

Dorothy and Julian off to Spain for a long weekend to go to a music festival today.

Bought some more glucosamine since this seems to be a success.

I must take four dresses to the sempstress at the shopping centre. They are far too long. One has a rather difficult frilly bit which may need extra work, and one has a lining so no doubt will be more expensive to do. Groceries from Ocado arriving in the morning so I will set off when I have received those.

There was an interesting programme on TV last night, describing 10 ways to lose weight. The presenter was shown to have hidden fat around his organs on investigation, though he didn't look overweight. There were some of the usual ideas such as using smaller plates, an interesting one about eating soup rather than solids, and this stays in the stomach for longer, stopping hunger. There was a good discovery that eating more low fat dairy makes one burn more fat for some reason, and one I alread knew, that eating protein fills you up for longer. There was an interesting fact about exercise, that although you don't burn too many calories initially for exercise, the effect carries on after you finish and when you are asleep for I think about 12 hours. They counted calories consumed, and an actress who thought she ate 1500 calories actually ate more than 3000 per day. Also Amy Lame was encouraged to just keep active in the house, by walking about while on the phone, rather than sitting down etc, saving trips to the gym. Oh, and eating a good breakfast with protein, though they used baked beans to add protein, added to a piece of toast covered in scrambled eggs with mushrooms, staved off hunger for hours longer than anything else. All this was backed up by experiments to demonstrate the validity of the methods. Quite interesting that they gave a cinema audience either large or small tubs of popcorn. Everyone ate everything in the both tubs, showing people tend to eat whatever they are given. Hmmm....... food for thought.