Phil Brown

I’m onto my third batch of rum balls in a month (eating them not making them) and I am feeling guilty as hell. I just can’t stop eating the suckers having been given copious amounts of them over the festive season. I have developed something of a rum ball dependency. I know I shouldn’t be eating them but I just can’t help it. Trouble is they make me feel good. In fact over the festive season my dietary indiscretions have been legion and yet,  I have never felt better. Towards the end of the year I was being abstemious at work, eating light lunches, small meals often, gluten free muesli bars - I even gave up coffee for a few days. Then, come the holidays,  I let myself go completely and ate whatever took my fancy: meat pies, ice cream, doughnuts, coffee and ended up feeling great. What’s with that? Now I’m back at work I am trying to be good but at home I know there is still a small stash of rum balls in the fridge to get me through the night. Don’t know what I’ll do when they run out … things could get desperate …  you wouldn’t happen to have any rum balls on you, would you?