Chocolate and Beyond

Fat people are more jolly?!

Found this article in today's Independent which offers some food for thought (groan) around how some of those bizarre medical myths have actually led to breakthroughs in modern science.

Just wondered what readers may think of the proclamation that fat people are more jolly, which says:

Ever since Falstaff, fatness has been associated with jollity. According to psychologists at Lakehead University in Canada, the "jolly fat" hypothesis might actually be true, at least among women. Not only have they found a link, they suggest a mechanism, too: oestrogen.

Five ways I've changed since I've stopped dieting:

1. If I feel like a bit of Snickers bar but I know a full one might make me feel a bit sick, I slice a bite-sized chunk off with a knife and leave the rest until I want it.

2. I take far more 'doggy-bags' home from the curry house than I ever did - one meal usually lasts for three.

3. I've stopped trying to persuade my son to finish his meal. When he says he's had enough, that's fine.

4. I sometimes eat a pudding or cake as a meal, instead of after a meal, and don't feel bad about it.

5. I don't watch my partner cooking when he makes a special meal for us and attempt to control the amount of fat he puts in.

If you let it, your body knows...

Every single day I languish in the fact that I can eat whatever I want, and at whichever meal time. There are no rules to my eating patterns, except the ones that aren't really rules, but are the things I've found I like to do that seem to suit me best - probably because they suit the needs of my body nutritionally.

I still haven't got off my sausage roll (are you laughing at the minor pun? I do hope not - hehe) and at the moment, I don't feel I can truly start the day without sausages for breakfast. My morning meals tend to be a high-fat, high-protein and high-carbohydrate affair - in fact, everything your body needs to begin its day!