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Thanks Claire and Amanda. The Japanese covers are always lovely, but this is certainly my personal favourite of the ones I've had so far.

Jennie 

Nindespin, I know what you mean. I've been run into at high speed and it is very hard to get back behind the wheel. It gets easier over time though you'll probably still find yourself jumping for no reason now and then for a while when you're driving. I had four children in the car with me when we were hit. Two of mine and two of my best friend's. Her littlest one was going on three and when the car stopped moving she sat there covered in a shower of broken window glass and said 'Aunty Jennie... We bumped!' 

I haven't missed the caramel slice and I'm certainly eating a lot less carob that I had been caramel slice so I think I have a win with that one.

My week #2 replacement is to replace one meal of the week with a healthy fish meal. I found some frozen fish in individual wrapping that's easy to cook, only takes about eight minutes and it tasted nice. Did that for the first time tonight and next week might be more of a test with it because I'll be home on my own - sometimes in that case I'm tempted to be really slack about the cooking!

I'm thinking I really want to take this through 52 weeks. A year of replacing one thing with a better thing once a week. I think it could make a really big difference. Now I have to work out what the week #3 goal should be.

Jennie 

Smaller cans of Pepsi Max are made in Australia but I haven't spotted them in any of the supermarkets in my town so far, only at places that cater food. I suspect they might not be very good value to buy, but I'll keep looking for them as they would be ideal for me these days and stop the temptation of drinking the other half of the larger can. After five days of having less caffiene I have a nasty headache today. Not sure if it's caffiene withdrawal or something else. I will persevere!

Jennie 

Thanks Barbara (feels funny calling you that instead of your bat cave name - hee). We have the Subway stores here, so now I now what you mean. Some of their breads are SO nice. Calling them Grinders sounds weird. We call things funny names, don't we?

Terri - a 2 liter bottle in a day? I don't feel as guilty now about my Pepsi Max consumption. Hee. I'm down to half a can weekdays, more on weekends. Don't see myself giving it up completely but I'm hoping cutting back will help, even if it means tossing some of it out. And I'm on 6 glasses of water a day. Now that really does make you feel better.

I tried the carob buds last night. They don't have any bitter component so they taste a lot sweeter than chocolate. But they were just as appealing as store boought caramel slice, and the bonus is I won't be able to eat the same number of calories worth of the carob buds in the same amount of time.  So far so good!

Jennie 

It takes 21 days to break a habit.  For example, if you eat a bowl of Edy's Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream every night before bed, you will have to NOT do that for 21 days.

Cat, I've heard this, and that it takes 21 days to form a good habit. At least if I'm replacing things I can kid myself I'm not just missing out on something, I'm replacing it with something else.  I think that might help with getting through the 21 days. I hope so anyway.

FakeFrenchie, I'm guessing there are sandwiches in Philadelphia called heroes. The mind boggles.  What are they like? Is it a type of sandwich or a place they are purchased?

Jennie - who ate a spiced fruit crumpet for afternoon tea today.  

Changing one small thing at a time is how I'm hoping to get gradually to a better place. I want to try to change one small thing per week for a year on a 'replacement' basis, since the feeling that I'm 'giving things up' is off-putting.

It's hard to do the big stuff, isn't it? I think that's why I've fallen off the wagon so often with an established exercise routine. I don't particularly enjoy the process of exercising and I work long hours one way and another. Trying to juggle it all - exercise is one of the first things I give up on. Still thinking on how to fix that one...

Liz, I hear you on the Internet habit! Using Google Reader with all my favourite blogs and some of these eHarl threads listed in it has helped me a lot with that because I can see them all there at once, at a glance, and whether there are any new posts. I can look at subject headers and decide what I want to read. I think I'll probably always start my day with Internet time but if I keep it to 10 minutes or so and leave answering the emails I've read for the end of the day, I'm fairly happy.

(((Merri))) on needing more sleep and (((teachlu7 ))) on needing exercise that doesn't hurt the body. And taking time for yourself - that is so important and can be so hard to do!
 

I suspect next week's replacement change is going to be replace one boring dinner dish per week with something more interesting and make that something fish-based at least once a fortnight.

How much change do you think you'd realistically make in a year, if you replaced one small thing with something else? Do you think you'd stick to making that one change per week for the year? And do you think it would kick off other changes you didn't add to your list? I'm wondering, because since I've made this decision I've felt as though I've had a change in mindset overall?

Jennie

I've been thinking about exercise. I'm not ready yet to commit to making a change there, maybe because I've gone back on my word about it so many times in the past. I only want to make changes I stick to this time, so I'm working up to committing to walking on the treadmill on Wed, Thurs and Sun mornings, as those are the ones I'd find it easiest to do it .

Fakefrenchie, yes that's the recipe except the bought stuff doesn't look (and no doubt taste) as nice as that and has preservative in it.

Jennie 

Oh, Donna, you're in trouble now. Guess who I'll come screaming to if I can't work out what I'm doing! LOL!!

I've got a way to go before I get to the thumb part, and at the moment it's very slow going, indeed. But I'm hopeful I'll be able to make the darn things. I liked the pattern a lot.

Jennie 

Thanks everyone! And aaaw, thanks Jayne. I'm doing sort of okay with posting images and things here, but I'm no expert. Is it easy to move them around to make it look like that?

Yes, mittens. I blame the Bat Cave thread. One of the 'bats' posted a mitten pattern there and I got the itch to try to make it. It's knitted on four needles in a round pattern, something I haven't done before. Things could get scary when I get out of the ribbing stage and move into the pattern. Or ugly......

Jennie 

Thanks, Donna.

Jennie