Attack of the fat arse knickers..

Seriously, it’s time to shrink the size of your bottom when your knickers are the size of t-shirts…. I know my knickers are the size of t-shirts because I regularly leave my fat arse knickers in my daughters clean clothes pile only for them to be returned with a familiar  ” Mum-this-isn’t-my-t-shirt-it’s-your-knickers”….. at least she [...]

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Time to knuckle down and get the job done..

Now The ‘Christmas Blip’ is coming to an end which means the choccie boxes are nearly empty and all the ‘delicious-naughty-foods-that-lure-one-to-them-with-their-mystical-subliminal-chanting’, have nearly all disappeared, it’s time to get back to rationing and knuckle down and get the job done…. In 7.5 months time my year long culinary experiment on eating a diet based on [...]

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Merry Christmas everyone!

Yeah- well I know this is a day later and it’s been two weeks since I’ve blogged here but nevertheless Merry Christmas Everyone! Did I lose 10 lbs before Christmas? Nah.. I think I set an unrealistic goal especially right before Christmas where it’s easy to occasionally succumb to temptation (in my case it has [...]

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The 1940′s Experiment- Four months on

Hello my name is Carolyn Ekins. I am a single mother of three and I have been morbidly obese for several years. My all time heaviest was 343 lbs. Last Christmas I weighed 330 lbs. In August 2009 I weighed in at 315 lbs and vowed to change my eating habits forever in a year [...]

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Cream of Parsnip Soup

3 pints of stock or water (stock is nicer!) 1.5 lbs parsnips 1/2 leek or 1 large onion 2 oz flour 1/4 pint milk 3 teaspoons salt pepper to taste dried herbs like thyme to taste Method Put stock in large saucepan and bring to boil Meanwhile grate the parsnips and leeks/onions Place the grated [...]

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Cheese and Potato Dumplings

Here is a fabby recipe that I use quite frequently. You can add herbs and spices to your own taste. I also find these dumplings, once refrigerated, can even be used to take in to work for a midday snack in your lunch box as they firm up quite nicely! Cheese and Potato Dumplings 2 [...]

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We are connected and 273 lb by Christmas.

We have lift off! These past 10 days have seemed like a life time but thanks to my ex-husband our network at home is now up and running again. Our home server crashed horribly, lost all it’s settings and went through a recovery. Everything had to be stripped down and installed again…quite the job. I [...]

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