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Dieting begins next week. Oh yes.

Japanese special food for this time of year (well New Years) o-sechi is pretty healthy - although some friends doing Christmas did give me some cookies and cakey type treats.

(That is a very cute pic though!)

It wouldn't be so bad if my ass were really that cute.

I'm more fed up with the PC-police around these parts. Watching a bunch of (rather powerful if we measure ability to write whatever the hell they want in proper publications) journalists get into a huff regarding another bunch of journalists reportage on "alternative Jul". Note that I said "jul" there, Swedish yuletide cheer may be intertwined with christmas, to a boatload of people it's one big fest of food in the middle of a rather rough cold gray season, and to another boatload it includes some midnight mass think-of-the-baby-jesus stuff as well.
So anyway, the journalists gripe was that the "alternatives" they had found, weren't. One was a person who did not celebrate jul at all, and one was some hippie who lived in a commune and did some alternative hippie lima bean thing 40 years ago. Those sound like pretty firm alternatives to me. No jul at all is the exact opposite to jul. What's the deal, I wonder. Aaaaah, the deal is that they didn't interview anyone from the other big two approved religions, muslims or jews, and their "jul". Which is rather fucked up way of thinking - a jewish 'alternative jul' is not channukah, channukah is channukah you know what I mean? Ramadan's afterparty is not an alternative jul, it is the end of ramadan! But that is precisly what the journalists were looking for which got me so angry I'm still fuming and can't let go. What a narrowminded way of thinking, and all the while patting their backs for being PC. Argh!

Very cute. And yes. Yes I do feel like that.

When I got in to the office this morning, there was coffee starting to grow mold in my coffee cup :( Very unpleasant start to the day.

I practiced a form of mindful eating this Christmas and I did pretty well. MuddDude and I went on a long walk one day, on this developed trail down by a river, and saw two big fish and lots of bear scat (it looks sort of like dog poop, but has more berries in it).

I ate an entire coconut cake. Yes, yes, bloated. :(

Today is the only day that I've eaten any chocolate - about a dozen Quality Street from the box on the cabinet at work. And a team-mate took pity on me not getting any gift from management and bought me a little chocolate reindeer which I'll eat this evening. It's half the size of last year's, and as I managed to eat that one in one go (but felt sick afterwards), I should manage to dispose of this one with no problem.

Then tomorrow it's back on celery, carrots, etc. for the next ten days until my holiday.

I'm not bloated. just stinky and bored and I've got this cast on my leg which is like a boot I can't take off.

I started the diet yesterday evening/today. And I baby hippoed my way around outside at lunch, but I had to walk lots instead of jogging it all because I was too hungry (forgot my turkey at home, so hadn't any protein).

Why do I end up this way? I guess that's why we have January. Ooof.

On Christmas day I ate only a couple of slices of toast, and most of a scotch egg. It felt very naughty to be eating sensible amounts.