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

silvercar

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

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

It was a tweet by Richard Branson yesterday.

Bit of digging - see what happen's when you choose a sig, people want to know the why and the where - and it turns out he wrote it himself. It is the last sentence of this article he blogged yesterday.

http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/why-you-should-always-aim-high

silvercar

zagubov wrote: »

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

It's based on calorie restriction diets wher 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 dayn 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.

Someone once said that a diet only makes sense if you can justify it to a six year old.

So "I'm cutting out fatty foods to lose weight", or "I'm snacking less" makes sense. "No carbs after 6pm" or "I'm drinking odd stuff and not eating at all" doesn't.

"I'm eating less today because I ate too much yesterday" is reasonable. "I'm permanently going to starve myself on two days to make up for over eating on other days" fails the test IMHO. (They have studied this and found that 5:2 dieters tend to eat 110% of their daily needs on non-fast days.)

tomterm8

lostinrates wrote: »

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.

At the end of the day, I am being medically supervised by a doctor, and my sister is a senior dietician at a hospital, so if they tell me to stop I'll stop.

Mathematically, eating normally for 5 days and calorie restricting for 2 ends up on average at a deficit just under 500 calories a day. Which, when you think of it like that, is a fairly conservative plan.

Some of the others get into the loony tunes category.

neverdespairgirl

So that might be ITRO 3,500 calories, or 1lb in fat, lost per week?

Once I get to 26 weeks pregnant, if I'm still throwing up, the obsteitrician (how the hell do you spell that? I can't get close enough for the spill chicken to help me out) will put me on stronger pills. That would be nice, I'm still down on my weight before I got pregnant, which isn't Supposed to Happen.

chewmylegoff

One of the biggest problems with all this calorie stuff is that there is a lot of unclear guidance around what your daily intake should be. Nowhere does it explain what height and weight the average woman is who should be taking in 2,000 calories a day according to cereal packets, nor does it say how much exercise the average woman does. Similarly for the average man and his suggested 2,500 intake.

In reality those recommended intakes are for people who also do the recommended amount of exercise which is 150 minutes of cardio a week, but I think many people take the average as a starting point and then add extra on top to allow for exercise (whilst simultaneously grossly overestimating the amount of energy the exercise has burned off).

Generali

zagubov wrote: »

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 wher 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 dayn 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-styloe crawling along ventilation ducts in the near future.

Yeah, I need to grow an extra couple of inches taller according to my BMI! I'm actually reasonably slim but I have muscular legs from all the cycling.

IIRC, the 5&2 or whatever was invented by a doctor who wanted a calorie restricted diet that he could actually stick to. It's wasn't so much that it's more effective than any other way of restricting your calorie intake it's that it's easier to stick to and you simply can't eat enough food the following day to make up the missing calories from the previous day.

If you look at them, any diet is about calorie restriction. Low/no carbs. Carbs are where the calories are. Cabbage soup. Weight Watchers.

Hardly anyone at my work seems to eat normally. Loads of them eat about 6 meals a day. I can't remember what they call each 'refuel' but they seem very proud of it. There's another bloke who fills a 2-3 pint container full of microwaved vegetables a couple of times a day.

The world's gone mad.

A slim friend was told off by an NHS dietician for being overweight on her BMI. "But I'm pregnant", she protested.

She was told she was, "In denial" an diagnosis she accepted with a smile before going off to carry on as before. She is still perfectly slim and the picture of health.

neverdespairgirl

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Something odd going on at Waterloo. I'm currently sitting on a train waiting to leave the station - it's sitting on platform 20, one of the old Eurostar platforms which has been closed for several years now. Bit strange...

I thought they were all mothballed - I catch trains to and from platform 19 at Waterloo a lot (the Reading trains, which stop at Feltham, usually use it) and I never see any sign of action at 20+. Did you find out why?

silvercar wrote: »

I strongly dislike bedrooms with no windows. That combined with being open plan downstairs mean food smells are going to end up in the bedroom.

I agree, and I'd go further and say that, in my view, a bedroom has to have a window which opens. You might not want to open it all that often, but you should have the option.

As I find cooking smells so tricky ATM, I particularly agree with you about keeping food smells out of bedrooms, too.

lostinrates wrote: »

Can you go the whole hog and have tiles you like going right through into the kitchen? I think fewer floor surfaces always looks some how bigger.

Where we have two similar floors meeting (upstairs new bathroom to new landing/old wood floor) we hunted to get a new flooring that was as similar a tone to the old dark floor as possible to get a sort of visual continuity when the door is opened. Its not a perfect match, but neither does the eye 'jar'. The new floor is smooth, new, sealed solid bamboo, the old floor is deliciously tortured wood. But they are, as near as possible, the same colour.

Btw, love your floor.

I'd love silvercar's parquet floors too, I think they're gorgeous.

We have the same engineered oak throughout the bedrooms, living room, studies and downstairs hallway here, and slate in the bathrooms, kitchen and entrance hall. I agree that I like continuity of floors through different rooms, but I couldn't cope with wood in kitchens or bathrooms, I'd be paranoid about it warping or something.

lostinrates wrote: »

N'ah , you're alright too.

I'm positively vile.

I was telling a friend of mine about the 'nice person thread' and she, who knows me well said, what the *{% are they doing letting you In to play with nice people?

Having manners and being nice are completely different. . DH is nice.

I've met you, and emailed you, and I think you're lovely. I'm sure your DH is, too, but you shouldn't downplay your own nice-ness!

lemonjelly

Spirit wrote: »

Last night I put a load of towels on to tumble dry. It switched on but did not tumble just got hot with a burning rubber smell.

Towels were draped on the clothes horse and over the bannister to dry overnight (but boy are they rough).

So what do I do.
Do I call a repair man or just order a new one?

If I order a new one will they offer a take the old one away service?

What should I order. What is a condensing one and why would I want that?

Tumble drying socks is deffo a posh alert silvercar!

I'm not a fan of tumble dryers. We don't have one. We did, but in reality there wasn't room for it. We sold it for £20, & it packed up in a week1:rotfl:

I actually like air dried towels etc. I love towels off the washing line. I don't feel the need for all that excessive softness. Laundry on the line is great, & I'm always super keen to get the laundry outside whenever possible.

Am I alone in that? seems so glancing at the comments.

Yorkie1 wrote: »

Nooo, I've only just got to see avatars and yours is a lovely set of colours!

I'll keep it especially for your good self yorkie!;)

GDB2222

silvercar wrote: »

Back to floors. Can you get a parquet floor repaired? How do you match the wood? Does it look repaired?

We had ours sanded and re-varnished about 5 years ago. It all looks OK apart from the hallway, which is looking scuffed and dirty again.

I strongly suggest that you simply give it a new coat of varnish before trying anything else. The water based varnishes can just be applied with a mop, so you can do the job in a few minutes. You may be surprised just how much better it looks. Obviously, you need to give it a really thorough clean beforehand.

lemonjelly

vivatifosi wrote: »

Re the car jelly wants. My sil sold the same model last year. Such a shame the timing wasn't better as the tie up would have been beneficial both ways.

The key point is that it was a convertable and it was hard to sell even in summer. Don't want to go into more details online as it is not my info to give, however my feeling is that if jelly wants one, he should sit tight until one comes up at a reasonable price.

It is a shame. I was gutted when I saw your post.

It's possible we'll need to take this to pm, but can I ask what year your rel had? & whether there were any seals/roof leak issues please?

VW dealer appears to be selling an 11 currently for 14.4, whereas I can see 2 60 plates localish for just over 10k (& both these have a lower mileage!)

CKhalvashi wrote: »

Taking a punt as one of two models here.

Focus CC, or Astra Convertible?! Depending on what mileage LJ does, well within budget is possibly the favorite car I've (well, OH) owned (SC430). They never got popular, but it was an amazing car!

Astra convertible is to be avoided so I hear. I am mainly looking at a VW Eos. Have had an examination of a few focus convertibles today, but I don't like it in the same way as the Eos.