Hi Kim
Thanks for your kind words.
Fox's glacier fruits are a fruit flavoured sweet which I allow myself as a treet.
I am wary of the whole calorie thing as I have failed on too many diets over the years that have revolved around counting
calories. In the past I have set myself a target for so many a day or week and eventually have exceeded the target and felt so bad about myself that everything finishes and I put on everything that I have lost and more besides. Twenty years of experience tells me that this approach may work for everyone else on the planet - but is unlikely to work for me. I go out of my way to not add up how many
calories I have on any given day - but try to eat sensibly and in a reasonably balanced way.
Anyway I have just checked the bag of sweets and 6 sweets contain 129
calories. The bag says that they are made by Fox's confectionary. You can suck them and they are fruit flavoured and last quite a long time. I have no idea whether they are available elsewhere.
The reclusive thing was just something that developed. Both my husband and I have been morbidly obese for about twenty years and I think that I got a bit shy in company that I was uncertain of.
Being English of my age - I think of weight in
stones and
pounds. It is how we learnt weight in school.
The rule is
16 ounces make a
pound
14
pounds make a
stone
so it follows that half a
stone is 7
pounds etc.
The kids these days do
kilograms which I know is 2.2
pounds - but I find it really difficult to think in terms of those.
This is the reason why English people probably often come up with targets which are multiples of 7
pounds. I know it must sound funny if people say "I think that I would feel comfortable between 112 and 119
pounds - but this is them saying between 8 and 8 and a half
stones - and then translating.
I hope that your day goes well too.
Best wishes
Margaret
