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beanielou

So pleased for you BB & agree wth Granny!
lois~thanks for news on our lovely pet.

victory

Brighton_belle wrote: »

just got a council tax rebate of £1,300:j :j :j .

That is fantastic:j :j :j so pleased someone has got fab council tax story:D I moved here 4 weeks ago as you all know, put all bills on direct debit but CT would not have it, said needed to pay bill/cash, set it up again, no, maybe some other month but this month would def be bill/cash, rang them, 'oh yes,def bill/cash 28th....went to post office with bill/paid cash , no probs, this morning checked online banking they have taken it out direct debit and yesterday I paid cash so now have paid twice:eek: just what I need when I start a 4 week spain hol tomorrow:rolleyes: so now will have to wait until 9am for the office to open to see if they can give me one of them back if not less money for the hol and even less because the euro is so dire these days ,my kids are dreading this hol because we have not even arrived yet and I am saying no to ice creams no to their fav spain crisps, no to trips out:rotfl: :rotfl: oh yes def a penny pinching hol:rolleyes:

katiepoppycat

mph? sorry, granny what were you saying about biscuits? anyway, they were free, which makes them free food doesn't it?

ggrrrr to the council for victory too, what a bunch of numpties.

serendisglair

bails wrote: »

Great to see you Seren, and to finally have someone going GL too! Which book did you get?

Hi Bails,
I got the following two books and am gradually tryng to make sense of it all.
The 7-Day GL Diet: Glycaemic Loading for Easy Weight Loss
The Holford Low-GL Diet Made Easy

It looks like a nice sensible way to go from what I can gather...just choose healthier options and have protein with the carbs.... (still assimilating a few of the rules but not a bad place to start)

bails

Numpties indeed KPC (and what a great word!), poor Vic!
I'll have a look at those books Serendis, think I've flicked through the Patrick Holford one at a mate's; I have his Low-GL cookbook and the recipes are yummy and very easy (that's where the feta and red pepper pesto came from BB). It turns a lot of 'diet' ideas on its head in terms of 'bad' foods (lots of which are nutritionally very good for you) and, I feel, gives a lot of freedom. Let me know how you get on with it.
Great stuff about the interview KPC, and free biscuits are definitely free

Suggs

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Suggs, 5.4lb of extra muscle? Exactly where? Pictures please.[/quote]

Maybe I should explain a little more, if I am able.

My scales have a body fat analyser, it works out the % body fat. The booklet says that to obtain your best body fat reading you should do this at the end of the day, before your evening meal. However this goes against weighing yourself first thing in the morning. so I weigh and do all my numbers first thing in the morning, after a visit to the loo.

Because I can work out my body fat and the scales also give me a muscle mass reading, expressed in lbs, I can work out my muscle mass as a %.

Normally I have a downward trend with my body fat, with a tendancy that on alternate weeks it will raise slighty, but the following week its drops again. This week been an UP week

So back to last week, five day course, lots of coffee and quite a few biscuits, plus it was MrsSuggs birthday. I was going to the gym, straight after the course, and had added rowing to the mix, dropping the cross trainer I was expecting a gain and a 5.4lb gain is was I got, harshly I thought, but a gain is a gain. I expected and deserved it.

When I crunched the numbers though, I found..........

Body Fat UP from 22.5% to 22.7%
Muscle Mass UP 5.4lb from 73.7% to 73.49%
BMI 31.94%
Total Weight Lost 43.6%

I hope explains things, I hope things settle down this week, before I go to the coast with the kids on saturday for a week (from hell!) Big gains,even if its muscle are worrying. Besdies I hate having to explain myself No piccys Granny, too many floppy and flabby bits still to see.

poohbear59

Hi everyone,
I have not been on heere or a while as I have not been well. I am beginning to feel a little more human again. I have not been near any scales yet but I am a bit concerned that enforced rest may have done dire things to my weight loss. I haven't really felt much like food but have had DD mothering me and making sure that I eat.

victory I had the same sort of problems with DHs tax payment. They told me to pay online and then about a month later they took it off his earnings and it is so difficult to get it back. I am still fighting with them over it.

suggs I wouldn't dare try a muscle analysing set of scales because I don't think I have any muscle :rotfl:

vixarooni

Hey guys,

Seren: That is so awful that you have to re apply for your job. I hate that, would make me wanna leave!! Good luck though.

Poohbear: hope you get better soon!

Granny: Have a nice time in the culture zone which is probably no less cultured than anywhere else in the uk Although perhaps you can do the beatles tour, liverpool still wears the crown doesnt it?

BB: How much purple could you buy with that!! That is so fab, well done!


The motorshow yesterday was fab. Very tiring, but i managed to keep my cold inside! It was very hot in the tubes but it was really cold on the train home, matt bought a "i am the stig" t shirt so i wore that home like a retard on the way home. Then there was a horrible thunder storm which means i dont need to water the garden today

Hope all is well with everyone! x

katiepoppycat

through to stage 2 with fox's!!!


yay!!!!!!!!!!!

beanielou

Go katie go!
Best of Scottish.