I am obsessed with food and eating since Covid19 and i now have a belly which would be revered and celebrated in Tonga in the South Pacific and i see no way of it changing in the immediate future...jjeezzzz
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9am and eating Victoria Sponge ..strewth
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I have just enjoyed an early walk out and a cooked breakfast myself!
Do the dogs eat cake?
Years ago I worked at a bakery and they let you take home cakes and things that were left over and the line manager had 2 dogs and she would give them cake which was spoilt!
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Hi cat secrets did baby enjoy her birthday party cats don't eat cake do they pixie eats bit avacado, secrets I had big breakfast yesterday and coconut cake lol just resting my red eye for a bit we have to comfort ourself and nurture ourselfes as long as you get some exercise that makes you feel good too but don't over do it 🤗🙄🌞xx
secrets22• in reply to
my dogs are rather picky,but one of them,Eddie, loves cake and sweet things,but funnily enough he never puts on weight,but the other two are rather chubby,and they are all fed people food too,i buy them ham and steak as well as their pet food.x
secrets22• in reply to
Snap.......Catgirl1976....i also once worked in a bakery for a while, and i think thats why i enjoy cooking and baking.x
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Snap snap me too I work in a cake bakery but also was cook in residential home home made Baki g etc traditional meals I worked as a grill steak chef in a pub bar meals I used to nibble on the chips I might go ask at the leisure centre cafe it's quite if need part time chip fryer need to out weight on lol 😁🙄🧀🍰🥞
leo60• in reply to
I used to cook in a care home too!! And before that in a kids' nursery!! So rewarding 
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Yes it was as all they had to look forward to was meal time I loved opening the oven door seeing my lovely buns 🤗🍰🥞
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Nothing to lose by trying and asking!
I would rather be how I am regretting doing things and trying like many years ago when I worked as a catering assistant in a university kitchen I had asked the line manager about getting more involved with the kitchen side of things and was told no and at the time I was devastated.
Nowadays I am like I would rather try and regret trying than sitting at home crying regretting not trying when I had the chance and wondering what might have been.
Worst they can say is no they don't need anyone!
Best of luck in asking!
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Hi Im not if cafe open I am undecided as usual I will leave it for now I have a bad knee and my other job passenger assistant was easy on my knee I would like to enjoy summer with mam going out on our electric bikes if I can get one today offerred hopefully, well it's been such a curtailed year need to make the most of nice weather may be mam's last summer last year has been very stressful for her I have noticed changes with other elderly people 2 bungalows becoming empty it's been really hard for people that live on there own especially I feel,some elderly folk don't even have pets xx
Maybe we should consider emigration to Tonga, where we will be appreciated Roddy! And flippant thought that is, leaving aside considerations of health, why can't we be just the shape we want to be? And we have earned ours through what we are choosing to eat. The connection with our heads and well-being and overeating are still not properly understood or addressed by anyone, and I find dieticians are the worst people in the world in understanding it.
If we don't like the result of overeating we can always change our eating habits and/or exercise more but I don't understand why people put themselves through so much pain and deprivation to conform to a shape or look which society approves of. When I lived in the Caribbean I was often one of the smallest people in a room. On coming home I was immediately one of the largest. Who's right then? What is beauty? Health is another matter and I would encourage anyone worried by their size to take advice on losing excess weight, but goodness me, not to fit an ideal.Strange about the cake too as around that time last night I was doing exactly the same. Only.... mine was only half defrosted as I couldn't even wait until it thawed properly to get my teeth into it, so don't feel too badly about yourself! 🤣
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My view about places like weight watchers and slimming world is that they are like putting plasters on deep wounds as they don't address the psychological elements of weight and eating.
secrets22• in reply to
you are absolutely correct,x
secrets22• in reply to
oh yes..lets move to Tonga...and no one would bat an eye at any fat we have acquired.x
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We might even be admired!!! 🤣
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I had some after my breakfast yesterday as it was there it had been unopend for about week I had vegetarian sasage fried egg mushrooms and tin tomatoes 2 slices bread and I'm having a sasage san in bit when get up 😁🍰
You're not the only one with a big belly secrets, I may join you in Tonga! 😂😂
lets go.x
Wouldn't that be great! 😄😄x
Hahahaaaaaaaaa! Roddy, I was about to say the same as Sue! Best we all emigrate to Tonga! Think of the sunshine and beaches (she says looking out at the snow falling!), plenty of opportunity to show our bellies off!! I too, have become obsessed, not with the eating as much, but cooking and especially baking! I have even bought myself a breadmaker which has been running almost continuously since I bought it!! The family and my friends are very happy! Me? I hardly ever eat bread!!Anyway, you need Victoria sponge to help with all the sorting out you've got going on!
Have a great day, Laurie xx
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Hi how do you do your bread mam's goes heavy xx
leo60• in reply to
Early days with me, but poss cut back on the liquid??
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A baker who bought my dad's bikes said when we used all brown flour use mixed as that doesn't go right the thing is when made into a pitza was good think maby the dough mixing too it's all down to science baking how everything reacts have a nice day I'm having vegetarian sasag sandwhich soon with a nice shop bought bread lol playing safe 😁xx Tesco oat n barley farmhouse only got as was reduced to 44p from 1.25 what a rip off 🙄
leo60• in reply to
Yeah ! I use half and halfish
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It was nice when hot but when cooled too heavy there's photos on here of mam's pie and scones we use cold pressed rapseed oil as low saturated fat xx
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You just pay for the name and fancy packaging on branded goods and yes they are a rip off full price.
I eat this yesterday lol, yes half a pie Yul be fancying that now 😁
Hey Jerry you seen my tea yesterday mam's home made pie photo on here we had half each I'm tryner put weight on lol but even if wasn't I would still eat all that and not put much on i don't have much of sweet tooth tho and once I'm out the bed I'm usually on the go 😁🧀🍰🥞🙄
Mam made these the scones lovely cold pressed rapseed oil dates sorry secrets Yul be busy baking today lol
My town is full of fat people who walk no not walk sit around eating fish n chips lol I'll prob get into trouble if anyone from my towns on it was a big fishing port and we'll known for best fish n chips the sea is running out of cod haddock tho 😁
I was bereaved and disabled in 2016, and my weight got up to 19½ stone... but since then I have lost 5½ and got fitter - I now walk at least 5km a day.
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Hi your doing really well when my mam was bereaved she drank whisky on night to sleep I slept with her first 3 month's she was afraid to be on her own she had never ever slept in a house alone, when I split up with a partner I lived with for 7 years he got engaged to someone without telling me I had planned to move out anyway as we got on better living seperate I moved house same time as split up I lost a lot of weight was about 8 3quartes went upgo ten as I started dibdretely eating to get fatter and for comfort I went upgo ten stone my ideal weight is 9 half I've been underweight for few years even tho I been eating more and doing little during lockdown the stress and worrying I do won't put me that weight on hope you have nice weather today 🤗🌈xx
Vegetarians sasage meat mushroom.tom
Do what you feel is right for you is how I do things nowadays as I have found most of my decisions are made on instinct!
Its not as simple as what's right for one person should be right for all as we are all different!
I'm lying here suffering heartburn, just can't keep away from foods I know will cause it, feeling bloated. It was a nice morning and was too lazy to go walk dog, now it's pouring rain, oh Monday blues or something! WAAH! Just letting you know you're not alone
Victoria sponge for breakfast sounds great. I have put weight on over the last year, I tell my better half there is more of me to love.
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I once stood in the queue, to board a little 10 seater plane, in Fiji, I had not realised they would weigh me as well as the bag. I was mortified when the weighing in clerk just yelled my weight down to the seat allocator. Behind me, a very large Fijian gentleman in police uniform (bet he played Rugby 7's for them) grinned at this sensitive Brit, and said I had good childbearing hips, more than most of us did. Never could work out if I should feel complemented or not.
O M G that is so funny..hilarious.x
mmmmm, was in my early 20's, much more sensitive then, coming up to 70 now, much shorter but little else changed. Preferred his comments to the ones from my contemporaries at college, things like chunky and stocky. I was never sensitive enough to give up chocolate, chips and roast potatoes.
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