Local Vet came to vaccinate the yellow horse yesterday, and we mentioned that the horse is stumbling quite often when he is being ridden. He is also a tiny bit unsound this week, which we attributed to galloping round the field in excitement during youngest boy's weekend party. Local Vet suggests that poor Skipper go in for investigation for navicular syndrome. Have now looked this up on internet and feeling very apprehensive. Need to book the horse in for overnighter at bigger, less local Vet, for Xrays and other procedures. Keep you posted.
On a lighter note, and following the claim I made in an earlier post that the stuffed cooking apples are calorie negative, would like to confirm the following:
if your food containes anything grown at home or picked by you, its calorific value is nil, or sometimes negative. For instance, sloe gin, bramble wine, elderberry champagne. Apple crumble or cake if you grew the apples yourself, all jams and preserves made by yourself. Continuing this theme, rest assured that anything you eat whilst you are standing up has no calorific value, also anything you have to eat in a hurry (something to do with metabolism speed?).
ABsolutely any edible item which you steal from someone else (their hand, their plate etc) doesn't count.
Does anyone else have any other suggestions of methods to keep the calories out of foods? Do try my tips. I can almost guarantee chocolate will taste better, and will not rest on the hips, if you eat it whilst walking (slowly). Pass me the biscuit tin dear....
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First, best wishes to Skipper and the hope that he may recover easily and quickly from what may be ailing him! Keeping fingers crossed that it requires nothing extensive in the way of treatment and does not cause Mom too much stress.
Second, calorie negative foods - clearly all Thanksgiving and Christmas food is calorie negative if eaten at an office party or at a family gathering. Although the scale disputes this come January, I believe it's caused by some other factor such as staring too long at the low-fat yogurt in the fridge. Obviously it has nothing to do with the mounds of mashed potatoes with gravy and stuffing eaten over at Aunt Ida's.
New information! Now its good to know about festive good, will remember that and adjust intake accordingly. I find my scales often very faulty after Christmas, many reasons, though obviously I'm not technical enough to understand such stuff. If an Aunt or other relative prepares food, however large the pile, certainly safe to eat as much as possible - no calories in it for you...
Broken biscuits contain no calories. They all drop out. Bet you didn't know that, did you? At this rate, we'll all be size zero - but is that really what we want?
But poor horse. I hope he gets well soon.
BROKEN BISCUITS! Does that count for chocolate bars which are broken too? Must pass on this tip, marvellous....horse great, just got rubbish, too small feet for his size, will see what vet says
Do the biscuits have to have been accidentally broken, as in having been damaged during shipping, or can they be "accidentally" broken with a hammer?
Feet too small for his size? Does that mean he has to eat calorie negative food or that his problem is genetic?
Have I ever told you about the guilt diet.
- Guilt makes you stress
- Stress causes weight loss
- So if you can manage to feel guilty when you eat....
- The more you eat the guiltier you feel. The weight will drop off you in in time.
The other is the Dr Who diet
- When you were a kid did you hide behind a cushion or shut your eyes when the Daleks/ Cybermen or other baddies come on screen.
- Did you survive? The test is are you alive today
- This is because of the rule "if you can't see it, it can't hurt you..."
- So if you shut your eyes or put on a blindfold while you eat, you can't put on weight.
- Better yet hide behind the sofa you will probably actually lose weight while you eat.
I like the "if you can't see it, it can't hurt you" approach to eating. It might be a bit messy, though, trying to roll peas onto your fork with your eyes closed.
If, however, we could get Aunt Ida to feed us those pesky peas (and broken biscuits) while hiding behind the sofa, well, there'd be no stopping any of us.
I can't understand why I'm not a thin as a rail. And the small feet...its genetic, pesky US horse breeders - my little texan horse bred for looks not longevity. Will be serving all further meals behind sofas in our house. Scales primed and ready to weigh in results
I wish I could see your family's reaction to the new eating arrangement...
As to your poor horse, it doesn't surprise me about the "breeding for looks" business. That's seems to be the mantra here - appearance supersedes function. Oooh, don't get me started ;-)
Anyway, best of luck with Skipper!
I agree with you-calories expended while making items equals free calories when eating said items.
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