I once broke a bowl clean in half by taking it from a cold sink and filling it with boiling water but I can only dream of one day stirring a cup to destruction.

Do you do side-to-side mashing instead of creating a vortex?

Actually, how good would it be to make milo (and like products) in a cocktail shaker? That could be the next big thing, better get on to that!

FYI, it took me approx. 12 minutes. :)

The shower cap is just something I got a little while ago and haven’t put away yet.

Also I can totally identify with this post because I have faced the same problem since childhood myself and suffered significant personality damage due to all the harsh bullying in school which was not limited to primary years. In fact, like you said the campaign is good-willed but with potential to sabotage children’s self-esteem, the adults in my family did something similar to mine when they thought they were being good parents/aunties by nagging me to lose weight. It affected me on so many levels!

I lost about 20 kilos some years ago because during my thesis year I sort of forgot how to eat. And there was a boy involved, and I was always anxious, and butterflies turned to hunger pains but I couldn’t tell the difference, so I couldn’t eat.

And once I had broken my eating habits, and I found my long walk to the train station was a pleasant thing, the weight sort of fell off.

It pissed me right off whenever I saw anyone and they said, “Wow, you’ve lost weight!” as a compliment. This only means “Wow, you look less disgusting than before,” it seems to me. And now I’ve put it all back on, mostly because I ate half my meals from vending machines and a hospital cafeteria for a year while my mum was dying, and after she died food was one of the easiest, most comforting things I could do for myself. And now I am just not prepared to put myself under pressure to change.

Probably this does mean that all the people who say “Wow, you’ve lost weight!” as a compliment look at me and think “Urgh.” Which is dumb and unhelpful.

And I totally agree about writing yourself off due to fatness. In the past when I’ve been alarmed by being too fat for my favourite clothes and freaked out about how fat I’ve become, I’ve found that the single best thing I can do for myself is to buy some clothes I like that fit, so I’m not wallowing in self-hatred every time I get dressed for work.

I’ve come across a fantastic blog called the Fat Nutritionist, and she’s written a really cogent response to the moral panic about obesity that pretty much blew my mind, here: http://www.fatnutritionist.com/index.php/eat-food-stuff-you-like-as-much-as-you-want/

The whole blog is pretty great, and seems to be unbreaking my brain about fatness in general, which I think is probably a good first step.