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PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Embarrassingly, I assumed that Softplay is a pop group I had not heard of!

Don't worry, I've not googled it yet, so still in the dark about what/who/where it is.

Sounds like a ball play park to me, with soft squidgy balls. For kids.

Doozergirl

The thing I've really noticed since giving up stuff is exactly how sociably acceptable things that are really bad for you are. And how those little packets grow in size. DD thinks a 'normal' choc bar is a 'small' choc bar.

I remember getting set upon on the family board years ago for suggesting that our switches have been set wrong and that a pudding or sweet after every meal is not a balanced diet. I wasn't being self righteous as I'd very help myself to a full packet of biscuits whenever the whim took me.

The supermarkets literally bombard your senses with crud. It's overwhelming as I walk in the door. Things that I can genuinely start not to think about needing are pushed in my face from every angle. I can barely eat anything in the shelves as it's not 'clean'. I have never dieted in my life before, so this is really quite new to me. I knew logically that no one markets apples like they do Pringles but never really felt it starkly. It's brainwashing.

I find Aldi easy to manage because they don't have every end cap full of processed sugary stuff, so I can just go to the areas I need and divert my eyes from the ones I don't.

People have been suggesting to me that cortisol can cause weight gain. I thought I had put on weight over three years, in fact it was 12 months where my anxiety has been the worst it has ever been.

What complicated creatures we are.

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

Bad joke:

I took the wife to the docs as she thought she had Tourettes. In the end it turned out that I am a $&/^ and I can &^#/ off.

Not a bad one. That's a good one - and one I've not heard before!

lostinrates

Hmm.

Glad I was awake and happy through the night. Became bloody unwell later, lol.

Re love, I've said before fir is v different to previous relationships. But he's the sun to me, I just couldn't have imagined it when we met, but I cannot imagine different now, what a foolish young woman I was!. I imagine that there are pressures with children in a relationship that those of us without them just don't have. Illnesses, unwanted changes etc do. But more so I think, I'm not certain, but i think...... How we deal with them. Sometimes its hard, and I've definite failed, and closing fir out to how I feel about some things seems a good option for both of us. Turns out its not the case.

communication is everything. Everything. The good stuff the less good stuff, the downright ugly stuff. When you love and can be honest there is an answer for everything because, like a Hamish says.....when you know what eachother want/ need/ cannot give, when you love, its easy to find a way to provide/ understand. Some needs have prove not to be needs at all.


What ever happens with Np relationships..I hope for contentment.


Who knew hamish was so zen on loss? ( the gooey side on your wife has always shown;) )

lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

People have been suggesting to me that cortisol can cause weight gain. I thought I had put on weight over three years, in fact it was 12 months where my anxiety has been the worst it has ever been.

What complicated creatures we are.

Well, yes....and no.


Human knowledge in this less good as though I have high cortisol levels, typically it am suffering them atypically! Aiui in humans High cortisol levels can be assosiatiated with fat storage Regionally. Not necessarily over all weight gain.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

They do that there. Scarey people. Very dangerous .... and scarey.

There is a very off thread about a chocolate orange for a gift. Every one is saying how mean the op is for giving it for a gift and yet the fact they are doing so in a mean way is lost on them.

lostinrates

Ok, I think I've stopped being sick, so I better try and get up, huh?

That's the first time in ages I've had one of those episodes.

Doozergirl

lostinrates wrote: »

There is a very off thread about a chocolate orange for a gift. Every one is saying how mean the op is for giving it for a gift and yet the fact they are doing so in a mean way is lost on them.

Brilliant.

I love chocolate oranges. I'd have been perfectly happy. I did get some orange matchmakers. I love those too.

Whatever time I may waste on here, I do not have the time or energy to waste judging and criticising, especially over first world problems. What a pointless exercise. She says, judging. Seriously though, life really is too short to sweat the small stuff. People would be happier if they woke up and realised that.

SingleSue

My boys have been taught to be happy with whatever gift a person buys for them as not everyone has pots of money hanging around, so they appreciate whatever a person buys for them.

As an example, my brother and sister in law bought James a couple of pair of socks for Christmas as money is tight, they apologised profusely as it was only a couple of pounds worth which confused James, it's not how much someone has spent...he was very appreciative, especially as socks are something he desperately needs right now!

Edit - Goodness knows what he has done with the gazillion pairs he went off to uni with......

Doozergirl

lostinrates wrote: »

Ok, I think I've stopped being sick, so I better try and get up, huh?

That's the first time in ages I've had one of those episodes.

Oh dear. I'd say sleep, but the boy is in your county, somewhere near a MacDonalds. Perhaps fir could wave them in the right directions.

He is funny. He refers to my diet in the plural. 'We'.