The above pictures at the little Magic Pot thingers that have Sweetcorn, Sweet Pepper and Courgette seeds in them! It said, “leave somewhere warm, frost-free, and out of direct sunlight,” so I figured that my windowsill would be the perfect place for them, since I hardly ever open my bedroom curtains and blind. There’s never any frost on my window, so I’m hoping it’s safe. Keeping them in the dark in the cupboard with the water heater’d probably be a bad idea.
That said, I did also buy a mini-strawberry kit, too! And that is in the dark in the cupboard in my room where the water heater lives. They need to be “somewhere warm” until the shoots start showing up.
I’m going to have my work cut out for me this summer, seriously, with the digging. I’m probably going to have to buy a little fence and chicken wire or something to keep Bella from digging all my hard work up, because she has a bad habit of digging Mum’s flower garden out front.
Silly kitty.
But yeah, I figure I take the far end of the garden, dig it up, put down my compost and plant my little plants, put up the little fence and put the chicken wire over the top until the sprouts are too high, at which point I’ll probably try the citrus-peel trick to keep cats out.
Seriously, though, I’m so excited about this. I even bought a “grow your own chives” that you can grow on your kitchen windowsill! Of course, I forgot the sheer amount of stuff Mum has on her kitchen windowsill at the moment, but she said she’s going to have to pot on her mini cacti soon.
(Which is good, because I really need those little pots! They were mine in the first place, little expensive terracotta pots from Atlantic Homecare that I was supposed to be using to make damper bread that Mum decided she’d use for cacti while I was in Florida. BAD MOTHER, NO COOKIE.
Man, I wish I had cookies.
Actually, no I don’t. I wish I had a Sambodino’s wrap with chicken tikka and stuffing, OMFG I’d be tempted to fly to Dublin just to take the train up to Mullingar and buy a load of sandwiches.
It’d be the most expensive sandwich I’ve ever had, but it’d be worth it.
Please note: I will not be doing this. If anybody is reading this and lives in/near Mullingar, County Westmeath, and would like to go to Sambodino’s and have them ship over a week’s worth of Chicken Tikka wraps with mayonnaise for my birthday, I’d be eternally grateful.)
Week One, Day Five of The Beck Diet Solution, and today’s assignment is to eat slowly and mindfully.
This one’s difficult for me. Lunch, I ate in front of the computer watching this week’s episode of 24, drinking my soup (I always put my soup in a cup nowadays; saves on spillage and crockery) and eating my salt-and-vinegar Snack-A-Jacks with Chive Light Philadelphia and wafer-thin turkey slices (a favourite meal when I’m on Weight Watchers; it comes out at about 350 calories and not a lot of fat), and I must admit, I don’t think I really tasted a single bite of my food. I remember the soup being hot, because I almost burned my tongue on it at first. I remember the taste of the salt-and-vinegar, with the creaminess and hint of chives from the Philadelphia.
But I didn’t really taste it. I took a bite of cracker, took a sip of soup, lather, rinse, repeat. I was actually shocked when I went to take a sip of my soup only to find out that it was gone.
Dinner was a bit better, but I still wasn’t really aware of eating. I was reading the newspaper while I was eating, and this made me eat slower, because it’s impossible to eat noodle stir-fry when one is not paying attention, so between reading my newspaper and eating my food, it took me a good 15/20 minutes to finish eating it. I was still hungry, so I took a yoghurt, and came upstairs and ate my yoghurt. Now, I did eat my yoghurt slowly, because the Shape 0% yoghurts are so creamy that it’s such a waste not to savour it.
And I cheated and bought a sandwich from ASDA when I was in getting ingredients to make my Mum’s Mother’s Day Cake (Weight Watchers recipe!) and when I came home, I practically inhaled the damned thing.
Admittedly, I’d just swum (swam?) a half-mile in the swimming pool, but really, there’s no excuse for eating a sandwich in less than 5 minutes. That’s 2.5 minutes per half, including chewing and swallowing time. It was ridiculous.
Ridiculous but tasty.
So this is one of those things that I’m really going to have to focus on. When I originally tried Paul McKenna’s I Can Make You Thin, this was the part I had difficulty with, too, because I literally cannot just sit and eat food. I have to be doing something while I’m eating it.
So yeah. I’m going to have to work really hard at this specific part.
4.3.2.1 Detox trundles ahead. I have two days left of the liquid-detox, and 6 days of the tablets. And then I have the ten-day Intensive 4.3.2.1 liquid-detox.
I still have to decide whether or not I want to do the coconut oil detox. I’ve actually read that you’re supposed to literally only use coconut oil for the duration, and drink only a lemon-salt-water mixture to replace electrolytes and stuff.
If I decided to go ahead with it, I’d need to make sure I didn’t have any plans for those days, because I highly doubt that I could make it to the gym or swimming if I didn’t have anything but fat (healthy fat, but still) going into my body, no matter whether it transforms to energy or not.
And the side-effects. I’ve read about the side-effects, I’m cool with that.
But yeah. It’d be a serious detox.
As per my new motto: we’ll see.
