My hearing is not what it used to be. Actually I now have some hearing aids to see if they can combat a problem I have in crowded rooms where I can't clearly filter out the hubbub and so cannot clearly hear someone speaking to me. So let's give these a go.
I like a bit of word play and yesterday the Farmers came out and protested at this new government (led by Starmer) who have messed around with inheritance tax that will potentially break up our farms in the future. There's a general sympathy towards farmers we live in and around farms and they are hard working and out in all weathers no matter what. The metropolitan "elite" (they are anything but of course) are forcing their ideology onto this country and as not one of them has held down a real job even if their CVs may state they do, their decisions, not thought through, untested, not considering real ROI and certainly not prepared with joined up thinking are harming the economy and damaging the very people this party has always said they represent.
I am going to keep trying these hearing aids as I'm certain I misheard Stuck Farmer!
In other mildly interesting things, I am feeling a lot thinner this morning and I tried on a tee shirt that I haven't worn for some time as it was too tight and it fitted with room to spare which is great and I am almost on another notch on my trouser belt. My trousers actually fall off me without a belt now and I can wrap a good couple of inches past the top button. So the diet (perhaps I shouldn't call it that) is working.
What am I doing? Well the first thing is no beer. Liquid bread they call it and it has made quite a difference to me. I absolutely love a beer but it is loaded with easily absorbed carbohydrates and the body just converts it effortlessly into fat! Secondly, a Keto/Carnivore diet and intermittent fasting appear to be working really well. I've been doing the intermittent fasting for a good two or three weeks I guess and the weight is coming off nicely and in a controlled manner. I try and do intermittent for 5 days a week if possible but it often depends on what is going on.
I feel healthy and overall I feel less exhausted doing things, I feel satiated when I do eat, I interestingly only feel hungry just as I break the intermittent fasting and it isn't pangs it's more anticipation that food is on its way. My head is clearer and my anxiety is less. We had a maintenance engineer over yesterday and I'd normally be on edge about it but it was fine and I felt OK. I knew that there'd be work to be done which they will quote me for. I am kicking myself for not having it done regularly but there you go.
Anyway, I am tackling my hearing, losing weight and feeling good about it, my stomach is going away now nicely and it's noticeable that my arms are now losing their fatty bits as are my legs. I can see parts of my body that I wasn't able to just 3 or 4 months ago. It's taken a while to lose this weight but I need to remind myself that it was only July that I started a short 4 months ago and whilst I have been strict on not drinking I have had a weekend away and had some zero alcohol beers a couple of times. I don't eat much Vegetables and I steer away from potatoes, pasta, rice and all that sort of stuff so my diet is nearly all meat or fish.
I am really pleased with progress and now I have lost at least two stone the weight is noticeably coming off as clothes now fit loosely, my other clothes are beginning to fit again and I feel so much better for not carrying that around - it's 14 bags of sugar to give you an idea that are not being carried on my body it is noticeable for sure.
Anyway, let's see how these protests are going and what this pathetic government are going to do. If reports are to be believed there's major impacts coming from business. It's cold and the pensioners (of which I am one) will be trying to work out how to heat their houses and keep warm. It's like watching a very slow motion car crash. You can see the wheels wobbling and about to fall off, you can see that the car will hit a brick wall but the driver still has their foot to the floor accelerating. Thousand of people are watching and muttering under their breath quietly in a whisper almost "watch out" and "stuck farmer". They like me, watch in curiosity rather than horror at the unfolding frame by frame scene even though we know the outcome, the watch is enjoyable in some sort of evil delicious way.....
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