Slimmercook

I always have a supply of frozen fruit: when soft fruit such as bananas or peaches gets too ripe to be eaten I peel, cut into chunks and add it to a tupperware container in the freezer; also, I keep the strawberry pulp left over after I make strawberry liqueur. Therefore, I don’t [...]

When I diet I weigh myself daily, although I only post my weight here once a week. For most days of last week the scales seemed stuck on 75.8 kg, until a temporary gain yesterday. I had spent the weekend doing a mountain of ironing, and on Sunday evening Son wanted pizza. [...]

I’ve stopped following the Rosemary Conley plan so I’m no longer using the cookery book. This recipe is my own adaptation of a classic Greek and Turkish dish. The name means the Imam fainted, different versions say because it was so delicious, or because he found out how much (expensive) olive oil was [...]

I don’t know whether it’s the Linea tea, cutting out all alcohol, or the diet plan itself, but I lost an incredible 4.0 kg in the first week–more than I can recall ever losing in such a time span. I realise the first week on a diet much of the loss is water weight, [...]

Last Saturday we went to a wedding. During the celebration dinner Husband either mixed his drinks, or had too much to drink, or his system simply wasn’t used to drinking after abstaining for about two months on a strict diet–whatever the reason, his body rejected the alcohol in no uncertain terms. This was [...]