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Today’s Beck Diet Solution assignment is to, as the title suggest, eat everything while you’re sitting down, to make yourself more aware of everything you’re eating when you’re not sitting down.

Things like: picking up testing samples while you’re out in the supermarket; eating a chocolate bar while walking through town; taking little tastes while you’re cooking (which I don’t think should count, because you should taste-test while cooking) and such things.

Now, this one I already have in the bag, because I tend to sit down while I’m eating. I tend to sit down whenever I have the chance, to be perfectly honest. Even when I bought marzipan bars from Thornton’s yesterday, I took a seat outside the mall to eat it.

When I eat my dinner or lunch, I’m either sitting in a café, at my computer, or at the dining room table. When I eat breakfast, I’m usually at my computer desk.

So this one’s easy.

But, to commit it in writing:

When I feel like eating standing up, I’m going to: sit down, or not eat at all.

I’m going to remind myself to sit down when I eat by: remembering that I am committing to this in writing.

(The page continues by saying: Once I accept the fact that I have to eat everything sitting down, dieting will be easier.)

I’m very excited about this coming spring! ASDA were actually selling kits for growing your own tomatoes, and growing your own chillies.

So I got one of each!

This will be the first time I have actually planted vegetables. I bought a lot of seeds last spring, but we decided to move to Scotland, and I have no idea where the seeds have actually gotten to.

Then, when I was in ASDA tonight, I also noticed that they’ve got all their seed-planting kits and compost and stuff, and their seeds are on 3 for £4. I got onions, sweet peppers, and winter squash, which I think is actually a butternut squash, although, according to Wikipedia, there are a few varieties of Winter Squash.

Then, there are these lovely little kits to grow three different vegetables: I bought two. One grows cherry tomatoes, pumpkins, and lettuce; the others, sweetcorn, sweet pepper and courgette.

I’m going to wait until April to plant them all – this is the latest and earliest that you can plant them all, a great average, really – and then they should mostly all be ready by the end of the summer.

I’m really excited about growing the pumpkins, sweetcorn and butternut squash, to be honest, because they’re three of my favourite vegetables. Fingers crossed that they all turn out okay!

I’ll keep y’all updated on them. You’ll probably all hear me squealing with delight if/when the shoots start showing up.