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Liz Copeland
Member since 01st March 2008
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11th November 2008
You can find all sorts of creative reasons to overeat, but really they're nothing more than excuses! That said, we can sometimes find ourselves in a situation where it is difficult for us to eat healthily.
Here are some practical tips for dealing with...
21st October 2008
Altough I read The Thirty-Nine Steps when I was younger, I much preferred the movie version. Hitchcock writes a good introduction to his suspense-building technique - calamity follows adventure with a series of unlikely escapes.
Being handcuffed to a ...
10th October 2008
News is a strange thing. Until a couple of weeks ago I had never heard the term "hockey mom" (and if I hear it again I'll throw a brick at the TV!). A week ago I had not heard of a Large Hadron Collider, but it can, apparently, reveal the secrets of the u...
25th September 2008
Holidaying in Southern Spain this year we enjoyed the Mediterranean food. A typical meal was salmon fillet with home-made pesto sauce (basil, pine nuts and olive oil) and stir-fried Mediterranean vegetables.
Our Mediterranean veg medley consisted of au...
11th September 2008
When were in Spain we decided to visit the Alhambra. This sounds as if it ought to be a bingo hall in Whitley Bay (US readers - for Whitley Bay think Atlantic City only smaller and colder). The Alhambra is, of course, an ancient palace originally built by...
05th September 2008
So you've done the cabbage soup diet, the high fibre diet, the low fibre diet, the ice cream and beer diet (just kidding) and now you are ready to start a proper eating plan. But you also want to continue it.
Already you know how diet failure goes. Ful...
28th August 2008
In Star Trek Next Generation Jean-Luc Picard (French but inexplicably with a perfect English accent) was admirably played by Patrick Stewart.
I was once lucky enough to see Patrick at a conference; he was one of the speakers giving an inspirational tal...
17th July 2008
Cinderella has never been one of my favouite fairy tales! I feel that if she were treated that badly by her sisters should have left home and done something more enterprising, particularly as she'd demonstrated great housekeeping skills!
She was obvio...
18th June 2008
So how emotional are you over food? For some people food is regarded just as a source of fuel. They skip meals because they literally forget to eat and it will only be that gnawing hunger in their stomach that drives them to food. Even though this may sou...
14th May 2008
Did you ever try every trick in the book to get out of handing in homework? Actually, all my children have gone through a phase of doing that, so much for my brilliant parenting. Of course as an adult you know the teachers have heard all the excuses and d...
08th May 2008
Emotional eating can sabotage any diet or cause people to pile the pounds back on when they've reached their target weight. Does that donut have your name written on it? Is that last chocolate in the box the one that tastes the best? (And you'd know that ...
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