16: 5

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Yes I know that does not add up to 24, but I had some lentil crisps in school and then came home and had two chicken thighs, half a pineapple, the usual... and then after that, after 6 I stopped eating - well I had the rest of the pineapple at 8 pm - as in the rest of the half.

The start of the weight loss journey is always dispiriting and the first two weeks in the worst. Not only does nothing seem to be happening, but the discipline to not eat is a bummer. However as I said this method is great because you are not thinking of the next meal - you are going, the time to eat is between this and this. If the window is time is small so much the better. And eat only the portion of one meal and the best of that one portion. As in high protein, lots of fibre, fruit, etc. 

I am astonished how quickly it is now. I really only got started last Wednesday and I was doing it absent-mindedly two weeks before that... but it is now rapid. I just need to keep it up.

Today is the coronation of Charles. People go oh it is historic. Sure the rise of the Nazis is historic, the massacre of Nanjing is historic, colonialism is historic.... guess what - EVERYTHING is history because of what is that thing called? Oh yeah, TIME. If I was the monarch in charge of this crapshoot I would be so embarrassed - the same way if I was part of the Singaporean government I would be embarrassed with this mess. It is a total and utter mess. 

I mean, honestly, what is it all about? Poverty, the superrich, the hypocrisy, the whole principle of inheritance. I just find it all reprehensible. Say if the people were living in peace and they were not starving - then, ok have your little puppet show - but this. More than anything else the presence of the monarchy legitimises unaccountability and privilege. It says that just because someone was born to a family which through some quirk of fate ended up owning billions of money then that is alright. 

No, it is not alright.

I was listening to Brand talking to this man Gilchrist I think, and he was talking about left and right brain. This is a nonsense. We are all brain. Our problem is that we have been brainwashed. It is a load of complete bollocks as far as I'm concerned.

Left and right brain. What is the point about knowing how these things behave? What matters is how WE behave. OK know it for fnn, but know it to find things out about ourselves. There end up with so much of natural short circuiting when this kind of nonsense takes place. the short circuit in this case is the brain has two completely different ways of thinking. It is rubbish. Everyone has a different kind of brain but also a similiar kind of brain. And if we are to live with love and kindness and gentility and courage, we will help to nurture the best of us.

So today I am doing a workshop with the GROW people - to help these women to put on a Forest School summer scheme for their children. That is MUCH better I can tell you.

The days pass swiftly. So swiftly.

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