I would make a lousy heroine in a book.

I don't know either, but if you do find out, I would be willing to give it a go

Find a body? Or read Ellie Griffiths’ Ruth Galloway series. Ruth is my kind of heroine, extra stones included.

Liz08

Anxiety makes me eat more

Elly Griffith books brilliant and her heroine is what my DH would call Rubenesque ? in fact Elly is no slim Jim and neither am I.

I don't read crime fiction, but most heroines in novels are quite young so it's easier to stay slim pre-menopause. I must admit, I was always skinny pre-menopause and would lose my appetite if I was stressed. I still eat less when stressed but unfortunately the weight continues to go up!

The first thing I do when I'm stressed in make a cup of tea and tea is too wet without biscuits.....!

Under stress I want a sandwich.

Grannybags, never mind the biscuits, what about tea and CHOCOLATE?

I'm more like Vera

I eat when I'm sad,stressed,happy I wish it could be the other way round.
I love the Elly Griffiths Ruth Galloway series as well, such a normal heroine.

I eat more when I’m grumpy and like my favourite fiction heroine - Adelia Aguilar, Henry the Second’s fictional medieval coroner - I am grumpy most of the time. She’s unkempt, clever, courageous, and a single mother. But if you had seen some of the things she came across in the course of her investigations, you probably wouldn't want to eat again!

A lot of modern fiction isn't researched at all for realism, the cliches just come straight from whatever modern fiction they themselves read before deciding to write their own. There is an entire cultural tradition behind art forms that is not a reflection of real life in modern times. That is why when a child first starts drawing houses there is always a window in each corner and the door in the middle of the front, regardless whether or not he has ever seen a real house that looks like that. That is because invariably that is how we showed a child to draw a house - even though we have never lived in one like it either - it's the way we were first taught to draw a house as kids. With fiction novels I think similar principles apply.

Look no further... Vera - in the books. She is fat, ugly and with terrible skin as she suffers badly from eczema; but - a mind like a rapier!

I dont seem to need a reason to reach for snacks crisps are my biggest downfall or fresh bread with butter, it seems to happen regardless the GC are home the film just starting settling down with a book going to do some research on computer, its 3 hour till evening meal the list goes on and on.

I eat whilst stressed and as this is most of the time I am overweight.
However when devastated (when I got divorced,my Mum had a stroke,daughter was very ill) I lose my appetite completely but then of course I cannot enjoy being thin because of the worry.

I would make a lousy heroine because I would NEVER go in that house/room/cellar without adequate lighting and someone to hold my hand ?

Marydoll

Greyduster - I do like the sound of the Adelia Aguilar books, do you have a title or perhaps the author's name please.

That's interesting Ready meals. Probably the same reason that tiny children say nee nar for emergency vehicles despite the fact that they haven't made that sound in years.

If I'm stressed I rarely give up on food. Even when I'm ill so I'm in the same boat.

Mma Ramotswe is a traditionally built African woman to quote her own words. If you haven't already met her then hurry to find a copy of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

I knew there was a reason I like her!!

why I like her!

Luckyfour---I think those are the books by Ariana Franklin ( pseudonym of Diana Norman) wife of Barry Norman, sadly both dead now. They are brilliant. I've just re-read the first of the series, "Mistress of the Art of Death", and enjoyed it as much as at the first reading. My favourite book ever is" The Vizard Mask", written under her real name, set in the time of the plague and the Restoration. It's out of print now, but there are sometimes copies secondhand on Amazon.