Milestones (Amy's diary)

You were probably so hungry and out of sorts when you woke up that your hand moved itself to shove that sugar energy into you! The body doesn’t care what form the food comes in, it just knows it needs fuel! It’s hard to keep control of that. It really is all about habit. It’s like training a bold child to behave. It takes a lot of time and patience. Which you have Amy.
 
Thanks, Liza and LaMa and Emily and Jen! :) Not feeling good about falling off the no-sugar train, but okay, back on, now.

I managed the biscuit-making because it's a recipe I've made many times - a base that can have e.g. chocolate chips added to the first batch, preserved ginger added to the second etc. Because I know it so well, I didn't feel the need to taste to check if I had it right - so that was good. Also good was that I put out for afternoon tea (as well as my own biscuits, and shop-bought ones and rice crackers) a bowl of little mandarins - I was absolutely delighted that the visitors, including an four-year-old child, went for two things - my biscuits and the mandarins! :hurray:I would never have thought of putting fruit out for afternoon tea before - so that's a useful new practice I've learnt!
(Downside - I opened a whole packet of shop-bought biscuits, only for everyone to ignore them. And now they're open and sitting in the kitchen.)

I'll be checking the scales tomorrow. I hope I haven't blown the half-pound loss I was banking for Christmas. I really hope you're right about the patience, Emily.
 
Amy I can’t really add to what everyone else said . However I do reinforce a missed meal does me no favours . I think even a bowl of soup and a roll is better than skipping a meal . Tiredness too does not help .
well done on the gift sending . My parcel got to india in 6 days which was a record !
good luck on the scales I’m hoping for a maintain tbh . Meal out at weekend and a hungry Monday not helping the cause even though I ate healthy stuff really in Monday . I will be happy to maintain I think .
 
aiminglow said:
Thanks, Liza and LaMa and Emily and Jen! :) Not feeling good about falling off the no-sugar train, but okay, back on, now.
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That's the spirit. It's impossible to not fall off the wagon every once in a while. To me, the temptation to eat what I was making - especially sweets - would be too much.

I could eat mandarins all day long. Love those.
 
aiminglow said:
I opened a whole packet of shop-bought biscuits, only for everyone to ignore them. And now they're open and sitting in the kitchen
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I assume you are talking about what we call cookies. I have found a lot of good uses for them: give them to someone who can eat them, or they go great in the garden or compost pile, make good dog treats (if not chocolate), and if all else fails don't take up much space in the garbage can. Getting rid of them may seem wasteful, but its better than eating them.

What do y'all call what we call biscuits?
 
We call them scones. Pronounced either scown or scon, depending on who is saying it, haha.

Interesting about the mandarins Amy. :)
 
Rob- Some differences-
Australia US
Sweet biscuits or biccies Cookies
Dry biscuits Crackers
Scones Biscuits
Scones here can be eaten as a savoury thing, just with butter usually or with jam & cream. or can be made with pumpkin. Pumpkin scones are delicious. "Biscuits with gravy" I just don't get at all.
Amy- I find kids are drawn to fresh fruit when it's offered, even among tempting looking cakes. I love to offer the GK's a selection of fresh fruit all cut up with a small bowl of yoghurt in the middle for dunking. They love it.
You have reminded me to take some fruit to our xmas lunch, so that I can have a good selection of healthy stuff.
 
We say scones but scones to me are a savoury bread or sweet . We would have a sweet scone with jam or as you would say in the states jelly .
 
Thank you very much for the encouragement and wisdom, everyone. The part about the fruit being an acceptable addition to an afternoon tea table has been a really great lesson - I like that about dipping them in yoghurt, too. To any table, I guess. Okay, from now on, I will.

Rob, I'm guessing down there int he south-east. :( But why is Colorado such an outlier to the whole rest of the country?

About biscuits - even as I am writing here, I am hastily cooking up another batch, per request, to give to some kindly neighbours. Oh, and yes, definitely what you'd call cookies, Rob, not scones. I'm not a great hand with scone-making. :( I missed a lot of the important female genes, I think - scone-making and make-up and high-heel wearing - though now I come to think of it, the best scone-makers I've known weren't really good at the high-heels side of femaleness, so maybe it's not all in the one gene at all. ;)

I survived this morning's weigh-in! And am determined to still reach the two-pound safety barrier - crash barrier - before Christmas. I'll need to survive a couple of fancy meals, and a gingerbread house-making
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the biscuits call from the oven!
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put them back for another few minutes. They were done, but pale. I'd better go now, though.
 
When things from the oven start calling for you to take them out make sure to listem to them always - and wear a cloak with big pockets.
Well done facing the scales!
 
Amy I’m not a great baker either but I do try and I did loads over the years . Other than the nut bars now I don’t do any ax I would eat it .
your cookies sound good and well done on not gaining weight too. It’s not easy this time of year for sure but I really think we are in a good zone !
 
aiminglow said:
... But why is Colorado such an outlier to the whole rest of the country?....
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if every other person in California didn't move here from the mid-west, i have a feeling we'd be a bit more green-blue, too. of course my marathon running nephew just moving from SanFran to Boulder probably didn't help us.
 
Cate said:
"Biscuits with gravy" I just don't get at all.
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They are all too good, and best not gotten. I grew up eating them with sausage as a kind of sandwich, not so much gravy.

In the US what we (or me anyway) call biscuits are made with (amongst other things) flour, shortening, and baking powder to rise. No sugar added, but buttering and adding sweet jam or honey is common. In most of the US scones are sweetened, more often baked than fried. In Utah a scone refers to fried bread, not sweetened before frying, similar things are called beignets in Louisiana. Food names vary a lot depending on where you live.

Interesting map Flyer.
aiminglow said:
why is Colorado such an outlier to the whole rest of the country?
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Don't know, folks in Colorado tend to be outdoorsy, lots of hikers and the like, maybe that's it; Colorado and Hawaii have the lowest obesity rates in the US. My home state of Louisiana is near the top, only behind West Virginia and Mississippi, also 3 of the poorest and least educated states, probably a correlation there.
 
I'm slowly switching from Christmas posting to Christmas baking - or to thinking about Christmas baking anyway. This afternoon I plan to attempt (for the first time in my life) making rough puff pastry, because for Christmas lunch I thought I might make something along the lines of a mushroomy/pulses wellington.
But before then I've got to make a difficult phone call, followed by a difficult email. At least, I expect the email will be difficult. Business before pleasure. :(

But I can procrastinate a little here, surely? Love your hyper-science approach to why CO is an outlier, Flyer! :D

Yes, sadly, Rob - the correlation in Western countries between poverty and obesity is pretty well established, for very clear reasons. :(

I'm still only a half-pound down, Petal, but I'll make a push over the next two days to get to a pound down.

Thanks, LaMa! I'm a bit surprised that they showed my weight as holding steady - surprised but happy!

You impress me, Emily - no sooner hearing about how outdoorsy Colorado s than you want to be off and hiking! (I wonder if I can fit a walk in this afternoon, too?)

Oh, heck - that phone call. Okay, here I go... see you tomorrow. :waving:
 
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