Suz Korb

My quantity of breakfast this morning was too much! My stomach started feeling stretched inside whilst eating it. So that's a good thing. I notice I feel full faster on less food, after just a week on Slimming World. So now I have enough energy from each meal to tide me over until the next. I just need to flippin remember not to put so much on my plate (or in bowl etc) at meal time! So this morning my breakfast was Clusters cereal with Innocent Hazelnut milk and a banana. As soon as I poured it I was like, "whoa, that's way too much." And I was right. Now though, I won't drink anymore Hazelnut milk for the rest of the day. It's my favourite cow's milk alternative, so I drink way too much of it. During the day I need to just drink water and save sugar-free drinks for meal times. In the mornings when I eat cereal I don't need an extra drink with it. As the weather cools though, I'll probably be having more hot porridge in winter months.

I like to improvise and basically I feel anything with gravy and meat constitutes a Sunday roast dinner. This is the first version that involves gravy. I used 1 pot of the Slimming World chicken and vegetable soup from Iceland as gravy. A very hearty gravy. I added 2 boneless skinless chicken thighs and peas. This meal fed a family of four and filled us up! For dessert we each had a choice of Muller Light toffee or vanilla.

The other day I was in Waterstones and I saw a new cover for The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. I was like, "oo! I must get this edition for  my collection." So I grabbed it off the shelf to discover it was like 1/3 of the book. The publishers chopped the story and are selling it seperately to make more money! Jeez. Talk about greedy. I put the book back on the shelf and didn't buy it. And that brings me to my books. Sometimes when I write short stories I'll publish them individually on Amazon, but then I gather enough stories I've written to create a one-book collection. So I publish them all together in one book, then I unpublish the stories individually. I'd never split up my novels. I even amalgamate my stories! The only story I've left published on its own is Jingleballs, but it's only available individually at Christmas time. For festive reasons, of course. I usually re-cover it yearly, because it's fun. And here's the newest

Over the years of my life I've done different diets. I've realised that blogging or writing journal entries about my dieting really helps. Maybe it can help others too, as I intend to share tips and things I learn. At the moment I'm doing Slimming World and incorporating healthy eating and exercise for the whole family. Of course exercise comes in many forms, and for children it's got to include fun activities too. I use the word "diet" loosely herein, just as a shorter word to describe a healthy lifestyle. This is my diet blog post for re-starting Slimming World. I may change over time, but for now I've discovered that SW really is the best way forward towards a healthy lifestyle. It's basically just healthy eating. With SW you can lose and maintain weight, and retain a healthy brain too. Eating better -eating right- means putting things into your body that contributes to your whole self, overall. Combined with exercise in many enjoyable forms, SW

I don't know how many times I've looked at a book on Amazon and come across a negative review that made me buy the book. I'm dead serious. It's because within the bad review, the reviewer will often complain about things they didn't like about the book, and it turns out those are often things I do like about books! So I buy the book based off negative reviews. Isn't that funny? It's funny because it's true. And that's why I don't care about negative reviews on my own books. Well I mean I get annoyed if I come across them, at first. I don't seek out reviews because the good ones big me up and make me happy, but then when I read a negative review my first instinct is to feel sad. Then if I look at the bad review again, I realise I just don't care. Then if I see it another time I realise it might benefit my book sales! There was a negative 1 or 2 star review on all three of my Eve Eden books. All three negatory reviews read the same th