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This hot, humid weather I run (not the right word) around in the altogether and if I go into the bathroom and look in the mirror I see my mother in her old age and think "please, no".

Not fair when I see what some people eat.

I have gone off sweets and have only plain biscuits now if I want something a little bit sweet, but my friend who came up today brought me a present which included 3 small bars of dark chocolate. I have never been keen on dark choc. so will probably take them through for Phil.

Huia.

Hi love, I really do not eat much these days but altho my shape has changed a little, ( a tiny bit less apple shaped lol) my weight has stayed the same for years, I fluctuate day by day to the extent of 5 lbs which seems really odd.

I rarely have biscuits in the house and eat a lot of fruit and veg and less meat and bread. Most days start off with a cinnamon and raisin bagel warmed in the microwave and dunked into a cup of coffee made with half a cup of hot milk. Dinner in the evening is my lunchtime and usually we have at least four or five veg with the meal and not often dessert, sometimes an icecream cone but often nothing, and then during the night, my evening, I have a sandwich or as today poached egg on two slices of wholemeal toast. Oh and I had two squares of dark chocolate too. I drink fruit juice or weak squash or tea and only have two cups of coffee per day. Now why isn't the weight falling off me lol I won't say what I weigh on here but suffice to say over the past 14 years since I met o.h. I have gone up 4 dress sizes!
I have told him I do not want five boxes of chocolate this year, just cos he can't think what else to get me - I would rather have the money and just one box of chocolate.
I have started getting myself the really cheap supermarket chocolate cos then I am not tempted to eat a lot at a time lol

I do sometimes wake up feeling hungry and can't get back to sleep unless I eat something, if only a banana. If I go too long between meals I feel nauseous.

I will let you into the secret of my weight later on, by pm, must get to bed now.
Take care and will catch up with you later


LIzxx

Hi Liz. I must have the double dose of the genes. I dont think I have ever felt genuinely hungry, but I know how to eat. However, I have managed to lose about 5 kg since I started to weigh myself and watch what I ate last May, and doing a little more exercise. Not that the weight loss is obvious yet. :(((( Perhaps we need to have a competition to see who can lose the most weight!

Take care.

Huia. xxx

Have you got the greedy gene?

Anyone struggling to lose weight has yet another reason to worry - scientists say millions of Britons are affected by the "greediness gene".

The rogue gene boosts appetite leaving many a dieter doomed to failure as temptation draws slimmers to overeat no matter how determined they may be.

Researchers from Oxford University and the Medical Research Council were studying the FTO gene, the first to be linked with obesity.

Those who carry two rogue copies of the gene (around 14 per cent of Brits) are 70 per cent more likely to be obese and 50 per cent more likely to develop diabetes.

Meanwhile 49 per cent carry just one of the flawed genes, leaving them 30 per cent more likely to be obese.

The research found that mice bred with extra copies of the FTO gene, whilst healthy, ate more and subsequently gained more weight than their 'normal' relatives.

Researcher Chris Church told the Daily Mail: "For the first time we have provided convincing proof that the FTO gene causes obesity. The next step is to understand how it does this, for instance whether it increases appetite by influencing our brain or alters messages from our fat stores and other tissues.

"Once we know how FTO causes obesity we have the potential to look at developing drugs to treat it."

In the meantime though, it's back to good old-fashioned healthy eating and exercise.