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Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People
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It makes you wonder if there is a business just taking sick people to hospital and waiting for them there.
Anyway, people will probably have seen this but anyway it impressed me a lot http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25668809“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
lostinrates wrote: »I'll have to think too , about the Italian gen. It will hit me through the morning I hope. They might , in Milan and the north simply use the French though. Cannot remember.
Sofrito!!!! (I always pronounce it with a London 't': Sofri'o)lostinrates wrote: »Yep, too much sugar. Tempered by no fibre which, for me is the really scary part. IMO sugar is 'ok' in a reasonable proportion.
We've used sugar for a very long time, both in its most natural form in fruits and cereals, and in processed forms. Its a comparatively recent thing that sugar has been SUCH a huge proportion of the diet and associated problems.
There is no doubt in my mind its addictive.
I agree with all of this, 100%. Sugar used to be expensive, I would guess, because it requires a lot of energy to grow. Now energy is cheap, sugar is cheap.lostinrates wrote: »The way I'm eating now I find I DO have more energy, so they are right in that, but I am still very low in stamina.......how much is fitness and health and how much is psychosomatic of course who can tell? I cannot! But I am finding my body is responded exactly how it would on paper.
Stamina is about doing.
A good mate used to talk about cycling with me in my old smoking & heavy drinking days vs riding with other guys at work. They were 'gym fit' and would ride him ragged for 40 minutes whereas I'd ride more slowly but could ride all day (fnaaar) and cover 100miles+. I'd be in the saddle for 6 hours and still be happy to carry on.lostinrates wrote: »Because things like my lack of metabolism still aren't 'fixed' I'm obviously still very calorie restricted to try and slow or prevent further weight loss. the nhs dietician is very opposed to the fasting for me. this is frustrating because time and time again i have come back to it being the single most useful way for me to manage my somewhat challenging circumstances, and I feel better, without doubt, on fast days. . Small amounts of 'sugary' food are unstatisfying, boring and........lack......umami. I miss earthiness, tartness, and sourness. I miss crunchiness. I've only been rigidly adhering for a week again!:o:rotfl: but its quickly sinking in that I'm not up for a lifetime of this. If this is how it is forever.....and forever is on the plate I'm not sure I'm going to plump for 'forever'. I'm prepared to give it a cous of years, although, I suspect I'll get more problems that render it impossible before then.
Because nuts and seeds are banned, and soya is best avoided I'm also back on black coffee and delicious peach tea.
My tea and my hot water with rosemary are my main treats.
A mainly sugar diet also has some unpleasant side affects which further diminish self esteem. Luckily I haven't had thrush yet, but that's more likely too.
Doing the aquafit was amazing. I cannot tell you the joy of feeling an endorphin high, something I hadn't expected from bobbing in a pool. It hit at about twenty mins and I started grinning like an idiot. I hit a wall at thirty mins :rotfl: but worked through, and then the rest was easier. The benefit on my weaker side was tremendous :j
I'm having some technical problems signing up (all the classes book up too fast for me to get in:() but I am going to pay for an annual membership (optimistically
) which lets you book a day earlier, so I have a better chance.
ATM dogs won't walk far (fair-weather hounds) bar kiwi, and the fields are too wet for any of the kind of walking I want to do for heart rate, so I'm thinking maybe kiwi and I might start wandering further a field. The girls will be furious but it would be good for kiwi.
Can you not eat anything with umami? Miso soup or vegemite or Bovril? Even Guinness/bitter has a small umami hit.
Good on you getting the exercise rush, I love it. I used to walk a very long way sometimes at moderate speed rather than walking a shorter distance at breakneck pace.0 -
It makes you wonder if there is a business just taking sick people to hospital and waiting for them there.
Anyway, people will probably have seen this but anyway it impressed me a lot http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25668809
I hadn't and it's fascinating.
Photography is probably a better job for a blind person than driving IMHO.0 -
In the long term, I think cars will drive themselves. The technology is getting there finally...“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
In the long term, I think cars will drive themselves.
They have to drive themselves quite often now if this is anything to go by...
Almost half of male drivers admit to experiencing micro-sleeps at the wheel....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-25593327'In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are Consequences.'0 -
In the long term, I think cars will drive themselves. The technology is getting there finally...
There have already been trials where one driver has driven the first truck and in effect controlled the nine that are following it. Obviously it's very much in its infancy but it's the start of driverless trucks.0 -
In the long term, I think cars will drive themselves. The technology is getting there finally...
Can't come soon enough imho - I would love to be able to hand over the motorway part of every trip to the car and do other things which must be the easiest technologically, I would happily drive the bits at each end if needed. It would also do wonders for fuel efficiency and congestion.I think....0 -
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Gen. The yeast thing is a point of debate. They said no marmite etc, but that white bread is a staple....which of course is yeasty.....
I haven't yet had marmite or Vegemite because ,......well, I just haven't. The idea of it without butter is a little ...blah. But I have had poached eggs on toast with marmite and no butter in the past, so might try that for a savoury and roundly umami hit.
Guinness is out....no alcohol.
I will get my head round it eventually I know. It feels very unnatural though, and very unpleasant.0
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