My Wife is driving me nuts !
As reported here recently, my Wife Jan has joined our team, I am
beginning to regret her signing up to our barmy army. Why is that you
may be asking ? Well, for a start I have to fight to get near our
internet computer these days. Secondly, she is bombarding me with
information I have been writing and talking about for years. Did I know
carbs are not essential ! Do you know how bad trans fats are for our
health ! Seriously she is driving me nuts ! Have any of you ever given a
copy of the Guinness Book of Records to a kid for Christmas ? I have,
and they follow you around for two days saying “did you know” you’ve got
the picture. Talking of nuts, she has tried to corner the worlds supply
of Macadamia nuts, and I can’t open a lunch box these days without a pack
staring up at me. I only have to say I am feeling a bit peckish, and the
bloody nuts make an appearance. It gets worse. Jeez she has even
questioned having the Free The Animal blog in our side bar, bleating
“think of my ladies” It’s not all bad news, yesterday while surfing
around she found this guy, Kris Gunnars.
Check this guy out she said, he has one great blog. I had a swift look and when I read this statement, “recommending a high-carb diet to diabetics is a crime against humanity” I thought yes, I like the cut of this blokes jib. This statement really fired me up, nothing ambiguous there eh ! Kris goes for the jugular, my kind of fella. Almost five years ago I stated on our website. “The dietary information offered to many newly diagnosed diabetics is at best nonsense and at worst criminal” and I think that is a fact, now more than ever. So check our Kris’s blog, it’s a fantastic site.
There is a silver lining to this cloud re Jan’s take over, with the weather at last warming up, I can spend more time down at my fishing club. Sitting around chewing the fat with a few old boys, and stopping off on the way home at my favourite pub for a drink or two. Getting back home after some sunbathing fishing, and being tormented by the smell of a great lowcarb roast in the oven, and a bottle of Rioja, quietly breathing on the dining room table, life could be worse.
Eddie
Link to Kris’s blog here.
Jan sounds like a great gal to me!
ReplyDeleteAt least she hasn't got you in a frilly pinny yet when you are doing all that lowcarb cooking - or has she??
Second thoughts, some things are best kept between man and wife.
Great post
ReplyDeleteGreat intro to new site
Great eating Macadamia nuts
Gina
Great post, humour with a serious side,
ReplyDeleteSue
Since becoming a type 2 diabetic this blog is a must read,just love the variety,thanks team.
ReplyDeletemacedamia's, pecans,walnuts I eat them all now as snacks.
Doug (one of Jan's Gentlemen)
Hi Doug
ReplyDeleteYou didn't mention the low carb strawberry cake! Have you tried our coffee and walnut cake? I will post it up when we get back from our walk.
Seriously thanks for all your comments much appreciated.
Regards Eddie
"Secondly, she is bombarding me with information I have been writing and talking about for years"
ReplyDeleteI wish I could say this about my husband -I don't think he has learned anything that I have been telling him for years. The best thing that could happen to him is for him to develop an interest in his health.
Hi Suzie
ReplyDeleteJan always lived a healthier life than me, she was a PE teacher for twenty years. I did not give health a second thought until I was 58 years of age. Then it bit my butt. Obese, type two diabetic and two heart stents. Keep nagging your husband, before it’s too late. Our bodies can only take so much abuse, then it bites back, big time.
Regards Eddie
go, Jan!!! ;-) i think it's our job to keep our husbands on their toes....
ReplyDeleteBe glad of Jan, Eddie, just imagine what a dog's life Kocurnuts's husband has. (That's if he actually exists, of course.)
ReplyDeleteHi Tess,
ReplyDeleteI certainly do my best LOL.
All the best Jan
Carole
ReplyDeleteJan's a gem and we make a great team.
As for Kocurnut and partner?
Enough said for now!
Regards Eddie
tess said...
ReplyDeletego, Jan!!! ;-) i think it's our job to keep our husbands on their toes.
Tess in the UK we have official government information on the roles of women in society please check out:
Women know your limits
Graham
Graham -- if only Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann had learned this lesson in time.... ;-)
ReplyDeleteHaha... too funny about Jan :) I kind of relate because my partner will read something and say to me "did you know blah..." Yes I do know!!
ReplyDeleteAbout diabetics and diet have you seen Dr Neal Barnard? I watched his Ted talk about diabetics being curing on a high carb diet. Holy moly, I'm not prepared to give it a go!! And then there is Dr McDougall. No wonder diabetics get confused :)
tess said...
ReplyDeleteGraham -- if only Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann had learned this lesson in time..
Tess I think we should include Margaret Thatcher too.
Cheers
Graham