Limbs - don't you love 'em, arms legs, you name it! But it's important never to fall into the trap of taking them for granted! That said, however limbs can sometimes become quite heavy, and may add to your weight problems if you've got them. Think about it!
And starlet Jessica Simpson did more that just think about it - she decided to act, famously (!) as reported in the entertainment pages of a recent Onion News print edition, over an eye-catching photo!
And there you have it - one more success story at least from the recent craze for "fashionable delimbing", if you please (!), although Danskcolin's advice is to hold on to your body-parts as long as you can - and remembr, you read it first here!
My light-to-moderate wife Lois and I are both trying to lose weight ourselves currently, which is a bit of a coincidence, but we've decided not to go down the so-called "Jessica Simpson route" - not till we've exhausted some marginally less drastic remedies first (!).
my light-to-moderate wife Lois and me - a recent picture
Steve, our American brother-in-law, has reminded us this week about Stephen I, the 11th century first king of Hungary, whose hand was found to be in perfect condition even after he died, and so was removed for safe keeping, and mummified. Today it forms a central part of celebrations on the Hungarian National Day August 20th - coming up soon!
Lois and I saw that 1000-year-old hand for ourselves, back in 1998 on a holiday to Central Europe.
flashback to 1998, and our holiday in Central Europe: my light-to-moderate wife Lois
showcases the remains of Hungary's first king Stephen I, and his mummified hand
In general, however, I would say that it's certainly worth holding on to your hands if you possible can!
Lois weighs 8 stone 10 lbs, so by this rule she needs to take in 66g of protein daily, while I'm 10 stone 1 lb, so I need 77g of protein, whatever that means!!!
My usual breakfast is a bowl of cereal and two slices of wholemeal toast, so if I add an egg to that, that would be an egg (14g of protein), toast (10g), cereal (5g), milk (3.5g), making a total of 32.5g of protein, which will be a good start to the day, setting me up on the road to my target of 77g of protein per day.
And a further tip from me - hold on to your insides too, especially if you're getting on in years, like Yours Truly and "the missus" (!).
And as well as giving Ali's dog opportunities to paddle in a stream and hobnob with other dogs, it also gives Lois and me, two "old codgers", a chance to get out and get some exercise, which is a good thing at our advance age (!).
Last year I had a hip replacement, and so far I've avoided over-strenuous exercise, not wanting my new hip to "pop out" and go shooting across the room and possibly making a hole in a wall or the ceiling, say. 
However good your intentions, however, sooner or later it's going to happen! Your hip is going to pop out and fly off somewhere at some time, so just be prepared for that! And my "super-tip" - if you're a dog-owner, it may be worthwhile training your dog to retrieve it the hip particularly if it goes flying off in the long grass or falling into a river, say.
Our daughter Alison lives just 5 miles away from us. She often comes to see us, bringing the family dog Bjoern for a walk in nearby Radford Park, which is nice, and we agree to meet her in the park this morning at around 10am.
flashback to this morning: we meet up with our daughter Alison
in our neighbourhood park, giving her dog Bjoern a chance to look for
interesting objects in the stream or "hobnob" with other dogs, which is nice!
We try to keep our weight down, but now everybody's telling us that "old codgers" also need to have lots of protein to stop their muscles disappearing with the weight (!). What madness!!!
Lois has read that younger people need to take in 0.8g of protein daily for every kg of their weight, but older people need to take in 1.2 grams of protein daily, for every kilogram of their weight - what madness (again) !!!! Lois and I were both brought up in the 1950's and so we tend to think in pounds and ounces, so it's a bit of a struggle for us to cope with metrics, but we're trying our best - honest!!!
And today we try to work it all out, once and for all, on a piece of scrap paper.
Lois weighs 8 stone 10 lbs, so by this rule she needs to take in 66g of protein daily, while I'm 10 stone 1 lb, so I need 77g of protein, whatever that means!!!
But where do you get all that protein from? Today Lois notes down some figures for protein from various foods, including cod loin, the dish that we're going to be having tonight.
We're having fresh soup and chicken sandwiches for lunch, so soup (10.5g), bread (10g), chicken breast pieces (15g) - total 35.5g. And our meal this evening is going to be cod loin (25g of protein), potato (3g) plus whatever vegetables are, but at least 28g.
What madness !!!! [That's enough madness! - Ed]
But readers I need your help ! Can I be a bit cheeky here, and ask you for your favourite 365-day meal plan for the year, stressing the protein content and quantifing it for each of the thousand-plus meals, if I can be cheekier still? Postcards only, needless to say !!!!
And don't write too small for us. Our eyesight isn't what it was, to put it mildly!!!
Will this do?
[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzz!!!!!
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