YOU know when you were a kid there was stuff you just didn’t want to eat but your mom and dad made you? Are you now grateful that they did?
Stuff I never used to eat, or only ever eat because I had to, vegetable, fruit, fish (well, not all fish), salad and the like, I wolf it down now, and when they told you it was good for you… it was.
Now that I am trying to eat properly it’s amazing how much of that stuff I eat and enjoy.
In the past, I know I may have bored you all with tales of dieting and weight loss so I haven’t mentioned it much this time (more diets than hot dinners me) but I have written about doing some more exercise.
Anyway, time to own up to going to Slimmer’s World for the last six months and this week I reached my target, three and half stones lost, 49 pounds. Thanks to Pauline and everyone else at the club where it has been good fun, and leads me to ask why more men don’t go. Trust me, chaps it’s a good laugh.
My fiancée has lost a lot as well, so our car does a lot more miles to the gallon than it used to.
I think the secret is to make sure you still enjoy life, and good food, but eat well and eat healthy... and it’s amazing what you can eat.
Talking of which, there is a certain brand of yoghurt that we eat loads of, and having found out they were £2 for 10 in a certain local supermarket, I bought 40, and apologised to the lass on the checkout for being greedy, but she informed me one couple bought 100 earlier in the day. I only hope they run a hotel or the like.
Aren’t pets expensive? On Sunday, I went to the local pet superstore, where we bought stuff to clear the fish pond, stuff to cure sick fish, stuff for healthy fish, and a lead for the dog – £48 !
Anyway, I must add that after telling you last week that a certain power company sent me five bills last week, I decided to pay them so they sent me… five more bills this week.
An old mate, ‘Tamba’ Martin, nipped in the Barmaid’s last week end, and to be honest, I had forgotten he’d gone to live in Spain two years ago.
Anyway, Tamba reminded me of the time we both decided to go and watch a football match in Peterborough, who were playing Hereford United in the FA Cup.
Neither of us knew why we went, but we didn’t have much cash and hitch-hiked all the way there and back. We hitched home again, the last bit from Coventry was in the back of a horse box that was empty, well empty of horses, but not of their...
We got back for last orders in the Feathers and almost got thrown out because of the smell.
* Dave Bradley is the BBC Hereford & Worcester sports correspondent.