Lwaxana Troi Diet Challenge: Most Annoying Mother-in-law?

Anyone who has wedding stress, or their in-laws coming to stay should watch Deanna Troi’s rehearsal dinner for a little perspective:

Lwaxana Troi, mother of the bride, is WAY more annoying than my mother-in-law.

(Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 1, Episode 10: ‘Haven’ © CBS. Watch ‘Haven’ free on hulu.com)

 

 
Of course, she is an alien, and a very important one, or so she tells everyone, as well as being a telepath in the most embarrassing way.

But it’s at dinner that Lwaxana Troi and her entourage really come into their own: her Lurch-like manservant, Mr Homn, has to bang a little gong in thanks every time she takes a mouthful of food. Have a look:

So that’s this week’s diet challenge: … yes, really… to increase our awareness of how much we’re eating by having someone sound a little gong-type thing every time you take a mouthful.

My kids are very excited.

This week’s challenges:

• Make up some impressive titles to announce yourself at dinnertime.
• Find something to use as the gong: if you don’t have a gong, use a bell, triangle, tambourine, or whatever you do have.
• Ask someone who wouldn’t mind doing that every time you take a mouthful, or otherwise do it yourself.
• Keep an eye on your portion sizes, and whether you’re eating distractedly, without noticing.

Good luck! Click to see how I got on 🙂

 

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Links

• Watch ‘Haven’ free on hulu.com
• Watch ‘Haven’ without ads on vudu.com
• Lwaxana Troi on Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki
• Lwaxana Troi Quotes
• ‘Haven’ Rewatch on Tor.com
• Wikipedia guide to ‘Haven’
• ‘Haven’ on StarTrek.com
• [A marriage made in] Haven
• Fashion role models: Lwaxana Troi
• Utterly Star Trek Review
• ‘Haven’ Episode Transcript
• Watch Haven on IMDB with Amazon Prime

(Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 1, Episode 10: ‘Haven’ © CBS. Watch ‘Haven’ free on hulu.com)

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