Im starving! Lunchtime in 5 minutes though

What are you guys having?

Ive got salad with me, and some blackberries, a banana, and optional galaxy bar. Which Ill probably eat in the end!

Y tu?

I just had Cottage Pie for dinner.

JohnPhillip said:

Oh yum. I want that instead of poxy salad!

susannah said:

It's about time teleportation was invented.



I'd send you some.

Whats an optional Galaxy bar?

JohnPhillip said:

I just went into the kitchen and a guy was heating something up in the microwave that smelled distinctly like cotage pie!

REDFEATHERS said:

One Im not obliged to eat. So I could turn it down and set it aside, If I really wanted to....

I had a sandwich with french onion dip, cucumber and chicken! it wasn't bad! my kid even ate all his for a change - even the crusts!

i just had a pita sandwich stuffed with chicken tandoori

and some slices of wholewheat bread with cream cheese

with tea and some fresh paprika & tomato.

now i'm having coffee with a donut at my desk, draggin
out lunch a little longer, lol.

susannah said:

Dayum.. you are good!

ZombieKitten said:

did you feed him at all during the weekend?

REDFEATHERS said:

co-dayum! if I have a box of chocolates, not a one of them is optional!!

ZombieKitten said:

Thats why Im falling over laughing, its such a ridiculous notion!!

Im trying to be good poxy salad

susannah said:

do you have Bounty Bars over there?


well, I got some cheap knock offs from Aldi called "Romeo" a bit more crap than the real thing, but better than nothing!

ZombieKitten said:

same here, yesterday i had a left-over potato chips day. which means i
just binge like a pig on half empty bags of potatochips that i've got
stored up from the entire previous week ( i usually eat about 2/3 of a
bag and put the rest back on the shelve).

so yesterday i had peanutbutter cheeto's, french frie sticks, cheesy
ghotsface chips (lol), and some stuff i took back with me from france
about 2 weeks ago, which was still fresh to my surprise

anyway, i wish i had an "optional" mode on my brain because i was sat
on my bed, watching new episodes of DL & Pascoe on BBC1 and just kept
putting stuff in my face until i realised i'd eaten all the chips i'd
left in the house



it took 3 cups of mint and fresh lemon tea to stop me from wanting to
throw up, lol.

in the middle of the night i woke up from a bad dream in which i was
working in a potatochip factory, on the conveyor belt and all of the
bags i missed, i had to eat by the end of the day, lol.

my boss was kinda cute though, so it wasn't all bad

susannah said:

God I hate myself for even bringing this up, but...you smoke, right?



I don't get it. Watching what you eat, but smoking? I guess one needs a balance somewhere.

Just ignore this post if it bothers you. I just like to help out smokers is all... I just quit AGAIN last week... my whole body is going through mad detox right about now and I feel sick as a dog, but I am so glad I managed to quit again.

IstenSzek said:

JohnPhillip said:

as long as my sister smokes I refuse to listen to her "organic is best" preachings
do they manufacture organic cigarettes btw? I bet there's a market for that!

JohnPhillip said:

I've only smoked for about 6 months, and I only have 1-2 a day, or even none. So its really not my priority yet to stop, or cut down!

But the wieght I have piled on while working away from home, eating out on expenses every day and night, IS my priority! Simply because none of my clothes fit!

Well done you for quitting

ZombieKitten said:

I love them!

And I buy cheap knock offs too!

IstenSzek said:

susannah said:

Thanks and good luck with the weight loss, though from your photos I'd never guess you had an issue there. Believe it or not, you'll eventually lose weight from quitting smoking, too... though you will gain some at first.

No lunch for me...

I bought a bacon baguette on the way to work (s'posed to be my breakfast); got in, found out my colleague had the day off , so had loads of work to do. So I only ate it about 20 minutes ago!

Saves me pigging out on lunch, though.

Roll on tea time!
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JohnPhillip said:

Thanks! Im not really bothered about the way I look though, its just that I cant afford to buy a whole new wardrobe, and clothes are painfully tight!

Grapes , melon and strawberries , Yummy

JohnPhillip said:

man i know what you mean. i know EVERYTHING about food, and i mean absolutely
everything down the the molecular level. my dream would be to turn this kinda
overblown hobby into my profession.

so i watch what i eat, most of the time, and eat lots of stuff that "normal"
people never even heard about, all for the purpose of being healthy.

and yet, at the same time: i smoke

i can quit pretty easily though, no withdrawal symptoms anymore (had them oh
the first ehm 15 times or so but not anymore lol). so it's easy for me just
to quit and not smoke for a week or two.

but i always start again on weekends, going out with friends, telling myself
the usual self pitying delusional crap all of us smokers tell ourselves. how
one cigarette isn't the end of the world, how we'll quit again on monday.



and it wouldn't be half as bad if i hadn't just spent the entire day juicing
fresh vegetables and fruits, eating granes and seeds and boiling quenoa from
an aztec mountain sloap for dinner with fresh tomato's and home grown herbs.



sometimes people (i.e. myself) are so damn contradictory and stupid

ZombieKitten said:

"Someone out there is a marketing genius. This person has suckered a very large number of people into believing that organic cigarettes are better for you than regular cigarettes. I can't tell you whether or not organically grown produce is actually better for you than commercially grown produce. What I can say is that you can actually purchase ripe organic tomatoes in January. You can't say that about your usual grocery store tomato. I guess in an organic cigarette, you can guarantee that your carcinogens were harvested at the peak of freshness and grown without any type of pesticide." – The Angry Fat Man
well! I'll be damned!

IstenSzek said:

See, the way I see, it, at least you're doing something. i mean it would be worse if we were eating nothing but junk food AND smoking.

I see your point about there being not much point in eating well but smoking, but I must raise it with this At least we're doing
something right!

I'm eating the chocolate, by the way

susannah said:

lol. that's what i tell myself too! and i guess there is some truth in it.
at least a variety of the content from healthy whole foods contains some
protective nutrients that specifically protect you from lots of the stuff
in cigarettes.

oh and i just had a double chocolate chip cookie

this thread is making me hungry

Oh my god Isten, i just wrote the most detailed response and accidentally deleted it!

Here's the basics:

Think of the smoke you're blowing out as your life force, because basically each time you blow that shit out, it's at least 7 seconds of your life gone. And all it takes is one little carcinogenic molecule to hit a healthy cell in the right way and you're a goner. So my advice... quit now... you may still be living on borrowed time, but at least it'll be healthier time and you may just get lucky and die of natural causes!



Intense as all of that is, I feel this issue can never be addressed enough, because I feel that smokers really need a good scare before they truly quit. My scare was last weekend. Yours hopefully will come soon.

And John Lennon was right, Sir Walter Raleigh WAS such a stupid git!






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