h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Only slightly disturbing?

I am grateful for the taxi service though- really very much so.

Not sure how I'm doing, I've not so good at leaving food.. I need to re-read the section on comfort food and do some excercises..

Hello, 'B' -- forgive me for joining a private conversation, just wondering if you saw my post regarding Hellmans' Anachronism and "THe PResent is Always With us"?

hipflask!

Hi Hipflask, I've replied on your Personal Space.

Ben

? or something stronger <--- rum and coke

A glass of water would be nice actually. I just realised that I fancy eating the Chocolate Brownie I bought earlier not because I am hungry (I'm not) and not because I am stressed or miserable (I'm neither of those either) but because I am thirsty.

Interesting stuff this Paul McKenna thing, isn't it?

How are you? What made you late in this morning?

*ah hear you go*

Pours a glass of water.. I know there's a smilie but I can't find it.

This morning?

Well for some strange reason my phone didn't pick up any reception so I wasn't able to get the text message from the girl who usually gives me a lift, that told me that she was ill and not coming in.

I was waiting for ages, until I rang her (after restarting my phone so that I got some reception) and then made my way in on the train.

Paul McKenna's not doing so well for me, though I haven't had the chance to read it in detail. I'm aware of when I'm full, which is more than I was before, but I'm not so good at stopping eating then.I think the fact that I don't always have the money to buy the food I want makes it more difficult to throw food away!

I realised after two bites of a meal yesterday that I didn't want it, but if I threw it away then I wouldn't have anything else to eat for the rest of the day , so I had to finish it. What I may do is eat a 'test meal' of something small, and if that stops me being hungry I don't prepare a big meal.

Yes, McKenna does presuppose that access to an adequate supply of whatever kind of food you want is not actually a problem.

His fundamental premise is that your body and your mind are inappropriately stuck in starvation loops. This doesn't work if there are real issues about where the next meal is coming from.

It need not be as melodramatic as money of course - I have real logistical problems with making sure that I am going to have access to food I can eat (no wheat, no dairy) when I am travelling for more than three hours.

However a lot of it boils down to planning. I know I am going to have to pick a banana up at lunchtime for example, and I rather like the fact that I have a brownie squirrelled away for later.

But all in all, I find the McKenna book a relief - a real easing of pressure.

I had probs with your phone last night, if you remember.



B

It does sound melodramitic doesn't it? Yesterday it was mainly laziness that was the cause of the problem... thuogh I don't have the money for an unlimited supply of food I want to eat! That could be expensive tastes though.

Most of the time it is either laziness or disorganisation.

The other thing that happens to me is that I get out of synch with normal eating hours. I need food every four hours, so if I eat at 7.30am which I do, I am hungry again at 11.30 which is too early for lunch. If I eat then, then I am not hungry enough for lunch, but am hungry again when the canteen has stopped serving at about 2.30 or 3.00.

But it does make sense to me, so I am being kind to myself about lapses. I still eat past the point of fullness some of the time, but not as far past it as I used to do.

Bugger - I forgot to freeze the curry I didn't finish last night.

Damn!

B

I think I'm going to start freezing, and I may just buy smaller potatoes rather than the largest ones I can possibly find for jackets..

I need to re-read the bits on identifying what hunger means, I read the whole book in exactly 40 minutes (on two train journeys) so it was all a bit of a hurried skim.

I did listen to the CD, but the weird thing is that I don't remember it! I don't know if it was hyponosis or whether I feel asleep. If I feel asleep I might need to give my mind a bit of an extra programme.

Well it sounds like you are engaging with it. There isn't much to it, but it is the sort of thing which is worth revisiting several times.

Regarding the CD - I guess he is out there somewhere saying "Mwua-ha-ha-ha-ah!"

B

I could have just been asleep, but considering I didn't eat dessert today...

*waves* how are you pet?

If you sent a text message this morning it arrived blank, very weird!

Moderately stressed.

I took my car in to Huddersfield, but getting from there to Halifax took a while, (courtesey car needed refuelling, the signs took me to the wrong motorway junction, I had to get change for parking, it took me 35 minutes to get a parking space, yadda, yadda, yadda).

One thing that is interesting though, is that I had not realised how much my car's potential unreliability was stressing me until I drove a 100% reliable car. Interesting.

I sent a second text last night, but none this morning. But yours arrived when I was at the garage.

Btw, Carol-the-cleaner is coming around 11.00am Saturday.

Take care.

B

Ooh that *is* interesting. An unreliable car is the sort of annoying low level stress that would be difficult to deal with, and it's sort of a potental bubbling financial stress that is difficult to manage.

*sips a to Ben's car's good health*

Amy said at the salon (that you've probably read!) that she got three blank text messages from you. very very very

Anyway I'd better get on with some work it happens occasionally you know. Rarely admittedly. But occasionally.

Well it looks as if they have sorted out that dash-light that wouldn't, but it is fixed rather than repaired, if you see what I mean. The mystery light is still a bit of a mystery but again, he thinks he has sorted it out, and he says that he can't find an obvious hydraulic leak. I think it is basically ok, (apart from the bill which is going to be high because of the time spent), but we shall see the next time I take it on a long drive.

I've not been able to settle to any work today though. In some ways I'd have been better taking the time off and having the work done there - I could have got a lot done at home while I was waiting.

Still, tomorrow is another day.

B

*and an extra for your car*

Oh well he'd have spent the time anyway, and if he'd found something then it would have been more

Two words that explain why you made the right decision to come in this morning one begining with B and one with H.

Bank Holiday?



B

Ooh no I was thinking of Billable hours?

Not sure if I should have said it on hootoo..

Good point, and no worries.

B