...got on the scales for the first time in 2009 I weighed13 st 10.5, not as bad as I thought but bad enough. I'm hammering the green tea and hoping for the best. Apparently also if you drink ice cold water as your 6-8 glasses a day this helps speeds up metabolism too, so I want to see if all these little bits of dietry advice when put together amount to actual weight loss. Watch this space.....
salutory p.s............. read if you think you are really struggling with a teenager at the moment.......
Several months ago I was sat talking to a patient (who has cancer) and asking how she was. Straight away she began telling me besides the cancer she was dealing with, she had problems with her 17 year old daughter. I rolled my eyes saying......"me too my son is so respectful to the outside world and does so much good but when he comes home at times he is so disrespectful I feel like I'm being bullied". I thought she was going to say "same here", but no her problems with her daughter have made me grateful and changed me for the better.
Who am I to complain and moan about my sons cheekiness when a woman with cancer is dealing with a daughter who has been groomed into prostitution, is addicted to drugs, has tried to hang herself after her mum called the police of her stealing, and causes her constant emotional pain on a daily basis? Ever since listening to the woman I have rationalised and been grateful that all I have to deal with is a moody teenager with an untidy bedroom, and I have never raised my voice once, since. I feel calmer and not ashamed to say I don't get angry if my sons ever swears in the course of our conversations (I remonstarte with him but I donot become angry). The woman and her daughter are now a permanent fixture in my conscience and my mind............and my heart.
