really old style living?

Red_Doe

mardatha wrote: »

My god woman - where have you BEEN ? We all thought you were deid !

Hiya Mardatha
Thought I should lay low for a while instead of causing hassle.
Thanks for the yoghurt info...I forgot about adding powdered milk! That might be why it was all runny and looked curdled.

lora

mardatha wrote: »

My god woman - where have you BEEN ? We all thought you were deid !

I was beginning to think the same about you. From today's posts I now understand why. I thought Red Doe had been wiped out in a murcky storm in the far north.

NualaBuala

mardatha wrote: »

I feel about as exciting and exotic as a green leafy bloody veg I'll tell you. Dull dark wet day with a dull dark and wet RV sat glowering silently... sigh.

Well now what about some of those fancy Chinese greens ... pretty exotic. Edit: I meant to ask if you're feeling any better and how the plans for world domination Old Style are coming along?

I know the feeling though but not every day is like today. It was so grim and grey here today and I felt a bit rubbish till I got out for a walk. It looked less gloomy once I was outside.

Red Doe, glad to know you're still here! Hope you have better look with your next go at yogurt making!

Heard snow is forecast for UK in the next week or so, don't think we're set to get any here though.

ginnyknit

I got a kitchen - Yay!!! No flooring or tiles but units galore- shiny :rotfl:Just got to find everything thats packed away!

Mardatha miserable weather and moaning Rv's will make you feel like that, planning is all you can do when its damp and gloomy. I have a pile of sewing ready to do but can't find one piece of fabric I need so am resorting to babysitting, a good excuse for doing nothing much! My attempts at Christmas have been sorely tried by being stuck in the living room for a week and am getting anxious but come Wednesday with any luck I will be mainly builder free so can get a move on.

Red doe, good luck with the yoghurt, I havent made any for a week and OH misses it. His healthy diet has suffered this week so stocked up on fruit and veg today. The supermarkets are crazy now and have vowed to avoid them except in the evening till January full of frantic idiots buying useless over priced junk:mad:

mardatha

I'm tired of constant worrying about food. His weight is still steadily dropping but they cant find anything wrong so it must be the diabetes.
I seem to spend all my time working out what to eat. Today I had it. I made a big batch of rock buns. Soddit.
Now on the couch eating my third, reading a fantastic spooky horrible book, and watching "Kellys Heros". :cool:

annie123

mardatha wrote: »

Soddit.

my motto

NualaBuala

annie123 wrote: »

my motto

It's one of my stock phrases too!

Sounds like my kind of evening Mar but I would have eaten more than 3.:EasterBun

Sounds like you've done as much as you can for RV - you've got to look after yourself too.

Charis

mardatha wrote: »

I'm tired of constant worrying about food. His weight is still steadily dropping but they cant find anything wrong so it must be the diabetes.
I seem to spend all my time working out what to eat.

I don't know if this site will be of any use to you Mardatha, it has links to podcasts and to GI news, which might provide inspiration. This approach includes low GI carbs that are OK for diabetics, within a healthier eating plan. Dropping all carbs will cause weight loss, that's why the Atkins diet works, at least until you start to crave forbidden foods.

In the New Year I will start a low GI diet myself as I am too fond of carbohydrates, and it shows. Apparently excess carbs set up a kind of addiction. I've thought about it and dabbled before, but now I've made a 'public' commitment I'll have to get stuck in.

mardatha

The bloody annoying thing is that I am on the same diet, I eat what he eats onlymuch less of it - and I only lost 4 lbs total over the course of MONTHS!!
TY for the site x

ChocClare

My brother is Director of Care for Diabetes UK. He was just saying to me the other day that diet is the most difficult thing to get right - low GI sounds good, but you c-a-n "reduce" the GI of something by having something non-carb but very high in fat, for example, so it's not always cut and dried to tell people "do GI" because they sometimes think they can go a bit Atkins-y on it(we were talking about What To Do About My DH - who is pre-diabetic).My brother himself is Type I diabetic which is in some ways easier to manage as you just adjust your insulin.

Simon (my brother) says "sensible" eating AND EXERCISE is the best thing. He stressed the AND EXERCISE a lot. It made my DH very glum...