Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

silvercar

tomterm8 wrote: »

I'm trying out that fad diet 5:2 thingie. You know, the one where you don't eat (very much) for two days out of the week.

Apparently, people do this crazy thing all the time.

People are weird.

Dates back to caveman times, when they found food they had a feast, but often they would go hungry.

Heard people getting addicted to it and moving from 5:2 to 4:3 to 3:4.

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

People say you can take me anywhere twice, the second time to apologise for the first!

I was brought up with my parents always telling me this. I never knew what they meant at the time, thought they were joking. Clearly they weren't.

vivatifosi

Doozergirl wrote: »

Feeling your pain. We paid our staff and the tax man. They all had a good year from us. Alterations required to the business plan.

Thanks Doozer. I wish you luck with your business plan tweaks.

The business I run (job 2) is not sustainable as a full time enterprise as it is just feast or famine and you never know what type of year you are going to have. I know this, and smooth my earnings accordingly but it is still hard, hence the library job (job 1). The library job pays just enough to live on . My little trusteeship pays just enough to go on holiday (job 3). My business pays for everything else - when it pays.

I have mostly stopped the research work now (job 4) as it was very hard to make the additional hours needed as customer demand wasn't predictable and I was having to turn stuff down as I had to go to work. I was working until 3am and then getting up at 6am to go to the library job and worrying in case I made a mistake - I didn't but it was still too much... I still do job 5 which is pro bono but interesting, a directorship in a residents' association, but will probably resign that in a year or so as I am juggling too many balls, but I know if I do that I'll have to replace it with something else. Ultimately I'm a nosey sod and have to have something to sink my teeth into.

I could go back into normal work like normal people, but don't want to commute and don't want to be beholden to people at all hours of the day in order to get the salary. Been there, done that, cba any more and my work life balance is in a different direction now.

PasturesNew

I've no tax to pay this year.....turnover's probably half the tax free allowance.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

Dates back to caveman times, when they found food they had a feast, but often they would go hungry.

Heard people getting addicted to it and moving from 5:2 to 4:3 to 3:4.

Its easy and dangerous to get addicted to not eating. I have to be careful, DH has to be very careful. You get a high similar to an exercise high.

Lets face it, most people know women wo exist for a lot more then two days a week on calories equal or fewer than 500, often liquid form. sometimes augmented by other stuff.


The thing is, to keep the eating up in the I between days. I really believe my poor eating practice in youth is a fundamental player in my pooped metabolism now. I always would have been a good doer, my maternal family is riddled with under active thyroid:o but by going too far too outing I think I pushed my body too far too young.


My dietician fwiw is entirely opposed to fasting. I still feel my fast days are my healthiest and easiest.

Interestingly...I think if I'd had a kid I would hope they had more regular eating habits. .

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm just doing ours on the airer.

It doesn't seem worth losing my lucky socks over.

DH has already tried low setting to disastrous effect with my favourite big wool socks, which are now effectively big booties for NDG's poppyseed. :mad:

It's a lot bigger than a poppyseed now - another few days and my work trousers are going to have to be put away for the duration. The weight loss on my !!!!! from sickness is now not quite making up for the growth up front. And I'm getting a lot of wriggling inside, now. Apparently the baby's now about 1lb, and about 28 cm long. To mix my measurements.....

neverdespairgirl

silvercar wrote: »

Done

If you aim higher than you expect, you could reach higher than you dreamed.

Isn't that a re-writing of "a man's reach must exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"

ukmaggie45

Doozergirl wrote: »

You did a lovely job. I didn't see you finish on that thread as I left the boards for a while, so it's lovely to see the finished product. I have never seen so many pics of a renovation!

I lived in a different house back then, but I now live in the mirror of your house. Almost identical. Ours is 30s but it gets mistaken for 50s by most people.

Thanks DG. OH was really snap happy wasn't he? :rotfl: We're very unlikely to ever have the chance to renovate anywhere else (unless we win the Lottery), so it made sense to keep as good a pictorial record as possible.

Our house is 1955, but planning was granted in 1938/9 but WWII happened so only a few houses at bottom of the road were built before. At least I think a few are older, not certain. So ours is quite deco in character. The fun thing is that the estate was all built on the land where Liverpool Zoo was in the 20s and 30s. Just won an amazing photo on eBay that shows a couple of Llamas in the zoo, and the original house (demolished before houses built) still standing. This has made me indescribably happy, as have been trying to research the site since we bought the house. From a map I found online in the summer I think we are close to the quarantine area. Daughter of previous owner (he had it from new) told us that when her step brothers and father were clearing the garden they dug up a lot of monkey skulls.

zagubov

Gosh you blink and this thread's raced away out of control.

Venting dryer every time. In our rented house we had a washer dryer and it could only dry half a wash load at a time. Washing and drying took over our lives. My dryer's broken as well now but we'll get a repair man. Not just for being virtuous but because we replaced the previous one when it broke and felt like a mug after we'd done it.

5:2 diet's everywhere on this forum. Some on this thread are on it already IIRC.

It's based on calorie restriction diets where rats lived twice as long on a minimum calorie diet. Mind you it must seem like you're living longer as your whole life would start to feel like you're waiting for your next meal. The same benefits were obtained if they alternated binging and fasting on a one day on, one day off basis. This sounds like it might be worth looking into. Most other diets don't seem to be evidence-based as far as I can tell.

I'm either too wide for my height or too short for my weight. I'll deffo not be doing any Jack Bauer-style crawling along ventilation ducts in the near future.

zagubov

silvercar wrote: »

Dates back to caveman times, when they found food they had a feast, but often they would go hungry.

Heard people getting addicted to it and moving from 5:2 to 4:3 to 3:4.

This reminds me of the farmer who wa disappointed that his animals would unexpectedly die just about when they seemed to be getting used to living without food.:(