Day 18 - nothing to eat

My daily celebrations have this far required (that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it) that I eat a whole range of food stuffs. Yesterday I had to endure the consumption of 25g of butter in liquid form. Today? Nothing. There was no food related celebration today which I could find, instead it is Women's Healthy Weight Day. I've talked about my inability to put on weight already and I mentioned that I was 12 stone on new year's day.  Nothing has changed# I'm still 12 stone yet for many, eating as I have done these past weeks they would be staring at the scales and crying internally. It's therefore difficult to empathise with yoyo dieters, but try I must. This day is a chance to think about what a healthy weight is and how to get there without resorting to fad diets. There were loads of links on Twitter today offering advice on how to look after yourself. So many diets out there require people to quit this and stop that but only in the short term without pointing out the fact that as soon as you start again, you'll gain weight again. The people following the diets know this full well but follow them anyway in full knowledge that any weight will be temporary if they don't stay on the diet forever. It's an industry, fuelled by the media. Daytime TV programs tell people that they should be happy in the body they have one day and then celebrate somebody losing weight the next. It bewilders me. I'm sure that it would be easier to understand if I weren't blessed/cursed with a fast metabolism. The odd thing as well is that so many diets are aimed at women,  or predominantly followed by them. Even the  national day is called Women's Healthy Weight Day. Why not just Healthy Weight Day? Whatever. In order to help out I used my gift to eat as many of the high calorie comestibles (Happy Thesaurus Day!) which had been donated to my colleagues as possible. I was just thinking of their healthy weight, honestly.

Anyway, enough ranting, more Pooh, for 'twas Winnie the Pooh Day. There were a lot of quotes doing the rounds on social media and plenty of pictures. Eeyore was always my favourite character. Maggie is hopefully going to a Winnie the Pooh event tomorrow at Button and Bear, a children's book and coffee shop in town.  To get her warmed up we watched The Tigger Movie and I read the kids the story about Pooh getting stuck in Rabbit's hole. A classic. I even put some honey in the stir fry as a tribute (which slightly goes against what I said earlier but we can gloss over that.)

There wasn't much else on  today. World Religion Day was one but there wasn't time to delve into such a wide topic. I did think about researching the Church of the Flying Spagetti Minster (Google it) but I ran out of time.

A quiet day on the celebration front. Tomorrow will be quieter but the weekend is looming.