A boring Saturday evening

What do people do when are bored? Some of them call a friend. Others go to a pub. 

I go shopping.

I am much tempted and less and less inclined to spend my hard earned money on impulse buying.

Somehow I actually do window shopping more than shopping.

But sometimes I really have to part with my cash...when I need bread and eggs and milk....or when I see something that overcomes my attachment to money.

In that boring Saturday evening, while I was at Sainbury's at Meadowbank to get those eggs for the dinner, while lazily walking from one aisle to another, a title grabbed my attention.

Dr. Michael Mosley - the 8 week blood sugar diet

I have a long history of interest in how to manage diabetes without pills...This title proposes something even beyond my obsessions of management: reversing of diabetes; and some weight loss while doing that.

I was sold from the very first moment, no need to browse to see if there is just another blah-blah. Why? Because is written by Mosley. I have seen this guy in many documentaries about health and history of medicine. And even if I am aware the journalists do create more or less a persona for screen, to me Michael Mosley always seemed to be a decent, genuine, no B. S. piece of a guy. And I have this strong feeling he would not say things just to try sell, without believing in their truth. So, as there was an intriguing for me topic, coming from someone who's got my trust, I had to give it a go.

After the few introductory chapters, while still in the romantic part of the book - stories and 'how I got here' type of things - even before the scientific data was put in front of my eyes, I have decided I will go myself through the 2 weeks experience.

I do not have diabetes - or I do not know it , and my main purpose is to lose weight. 

So, here I will document all my experience during this attempt to test the theory.

 P.S. I have the feeling that Barry Marshall story (see page 55) must have inspired me to do this way :-)