Plan B is working!

This new healthy eating, online programme that Baggy has signed up to, is proving to be a winner so far. Or perhaps Creative Clara should rephrase that, as it's more of a healthy living programme. The twelve-week programme only started officially yesterday, but Clever Bird decided to break Baggy in gently, so, as she had been provided with pre-preparation information, she started the principals a week ago. The main principle is to cut out addictive-type things, (or at least that's Clever Bird's interpretation of it). 

 Can you even see the pier that Furry Mama has walked from?

Baggy's sister calls it 'clean food', which kind of fits. Baggy can pretty much eat anything that hasn't been messed about with. The plan intends to reduce Baggy's strong need for carbs, sugar and caffeine, in particular. Now Baggees, don't get this wrong, Baggy has struggled! Cutting down her caffeine intake was hard! She has always drunk at least six mugs of tea a day, and probably a cappuccino too. To start with she cut it to two - then one. Result: splitting headaches for days. But she stuck with it, and for the last three days has had zero caffeine, and no headaches. Result! To make it even more of a challenge, Baggy's super sweet tooth, always used to shove three (heaped) sugars in her teas and coffees. She swapped to sweeteners ages ago - three of them! They too are banned! She's down to one now. Maybe by next week she'll have ditched them totally. Probably not, but she can but hope.

Toasted muesli and Provencal Beef Casserole

But the biggest change, is that The Domestic Goddess is cooking! From scratch. Every day! Yes, she really is Baggees. (And that line has just prompted her to go and check on the Lamb Rogan Josh, that she had totally forgotten was simmering on the hob). 

Cheesy garlic mushroom

And she is eating three meals a day (unheard of, she normally has one).  To replace the teas, she's drinking two litres of water (without drowning).

Naked fish, carrot chips, mushy peas and tartare sauce.

And Baggy has upped Furry Mama's walking significantly! The pooch is asleep pretty much all the rest of the day! Mind you, Baggy is doing around 7-8,000 steps, so the pooch must be doing 50,000+ he hurtles backwards and forwards so much! 

 Toasted muesli with stewed fruit and yoghurt.

And the result you ask? Well, so far, so amazing! Baggy has lost a few pounds already, which is great, but that's not the big thing. No, the big thing is that Hormonal Hannah is a changed person! The extremely dark place that she found herself in has not only gone, it's been replaced by a bright shiny rainbow; and amazingly her anxiety has also departed! Clever Bird can only suppose that it's a combination of ditching the caffeine (which is known to be bad for depression and stress), and taking charge of her health! She knows that it's far too soon to believe that Hannah will stay this chilled, but hopefully she will! Yet, although Baggy aches a lot from all of the extra walking; she has so much more energy than she used to have!

Indeed, so chilled was she today, that she let Grotty Groom have her way, and go and see her Boys. She was determined to give the Boys, the horsey equivalent of a bed bath! Joey in particular, is so woolly and shedding hair, that he's really itchy, and because Hannah had once again stopped Grotty from getting to see them, she hadn't been grooming him!

The lad loved it. Even when lunch was served, although he wickered for it, he was content to continue his pamper session.

Mane, tail and legs washed (despite appearances!). 

When Grotty tried to hose his face, he backed away from the water. Grotty took a moment to realise that it wasn't because he was scared of it, but because he wanted to play with it! Clara wished she could have videoed it, but Baggy's phone wouldn't have survived! Baggy was soaked from head to toe as it was. Having snorted, flicked his lip, and stuck his tongue out at the warm water, he then drank lots of it. Cute. But Clever Bird realised that it was probably lovely, as his drinking water must be pretty chilly at present.

With that in mind, a few minutes under the heat lamps was the finishing touch, before Grotty put his rug back on, and let Joey have his (slightly) late lunch.

Naturally, grotty couldn't leave her own Boy out!

The biggest thing for him, was to give his crest a good shampooing! Baggy knows herself how itchy her head gets, when she's had a pony tail in for days, and Wessle's mane is usually plaited.

He did exactly the same thing with the water when Grotty showered his face. It must be the equivalent of warm tea (decaffeinated obviously).

Two hours later, Baggy was soaked, but happy...

Note to readers: For the avoidance of any doubt, every character in this blog is Baggy! No Baggy was harmed in its writing, although some of them get pretty confused!