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

PasturesNew

Well, talking of food .... I just made some cheesy mash and nuked half a can of beans. It's not cheese/potato pie as I didn't bake it and brown the top off... just tipped the cheese/mash mix into a bowl with the beans

dryhat

PasturesNew wrote: »

Well, talking of food .... I just made some cheesy mash and nuked half a can of beans. It's not cheese/potato pie as I didn't bake it and brown the top off... just tipped the cheese/mash mix into a bowl with the beans

Chuck a blowlamp onto it and nobody would know the difference.

Call it "Haricot beans served on a bed of seared potato infused with a rich cheese and tomato sauce"

Job done.

zagubov

The comments about meditation reminds me of this recent article

silvercar wrote: »

Until this post I thought that the name Mewbie was a play on newbie, as in "please be nice to new posters".

Same here!

ukmaggie45

lostinrates wrote: »

The rheumatologist in London actually suggested a schedule like ME/CFS suffered have for exercise /stamina regain. I know its wise.......:o

Hmmm, I wouldn't touch anything like that with a bargepole - most of the people who try and get ME/CFS patients to exercise are psychiatrists and barking mad. :rotfl: Of course they get knighted, but they are clueless w***ers nevertheless. :mad:

lostinrates wrote: »

The thing is my ankle is neurological I think. No one has scanned it but we think it thinks its sprained but itsn't really.....some days its ok and I can hop about. Its always a bit worse after exercise.

This is completely off the wall, but have you looked at Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome? Sprains can be one of the signals. Or possibly non sprains that feel like sprains?

lostinrates wrote: »

I do have energy now.....but if I keep gaining weight I think I'll panic and that will cause more problems.

At least if you have energy you have some ability to exercise to lose weight if that's what you want/need. Your diet sounds absolutely horrid to me - I really don't know how I'd cope with something like that. I'm finding it hard enough to try and do the low cholesterol diet stuff, but at least I like some fish (loath tuna steak and mackerel), both oily and white, and do have the occasional treat of forbidden food like sausages or a breakfast fry-up.

Good that you have a dietitian advising anyway - your diet sounds so limited it's scary.

Best wishes, and Good Luck!

Spirit_2

lostinrates wrote: »

If I were you I'd wear your prettiest negligee but go to bed, warm the bed up.


I always used to have to go and get DH. He doesn't travel half so much ATM.

I changed into my cosiest dressing gown and snuggled down on a sofa under a blanket. He came in and didn't make it beyond the hall for five minutes whilst the dog mad a big fuss of him. He could be heard saying (to the dog) "I love you too".

We had a hug, I made him a cup of mint tea then went to bed, he stayed downstairs "with his boy" for a while longer.

Such is life.

PasturesNew

dryhat wrote: »

Chuck a blowlamp onto it and nobody would know the difference.

Call it "Haricot beans served on a bed of seared potato infused with a rich cheese and tomato sauce"

Job done.

I mix the spuds/cheese in a plastic bowl..... not blow-torch friendly

Although thinking it through,maybe that's "art"!

Yorkie1

lemonjelly wrote: »

I love music. My stereo has got a bit old & past it, & I'm not looking to replace it yet. A lot of music is listened to in the car or walking. However, for in the home, & in the summer when outside, I was bought the following by someone:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003Y2XGBQ?psc=1

They're good - decent sound quality.

For christmas, someone bought me a set of these for the pc:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/GrandGadgets-Speakers-Connection-Smartphone-Computer/dp/B00G399PG2/ref=sr_1_23?s=network-media&ie=UTF8&qid=1389952278&sr=1-23&keywords=mp3+speakers

Like the look of the first one - hmm, might treat myself

Love the look of the second one - couldn't quite live with it though

michaels wrote: »

OK - another one for the poll 'Never realised LemonJelly was a band until it was mentioned a couple of pages back'

Me too

At some point this morning between 7 when the TV said all was fine and 8.25 when I got to the station first Capital Connect decided to stop running all trains so I have been lucky enough to smaple the delights of Hatfield this morning and get in 45 minutes late. I wonder if there will be any trains home?

Are you home yet?!

lostinrates

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Hmmm, I wouldn't touch anything like that with a bargepole - most of the people who try and get ME/CFS patients to exercise are psychiatrists and barking mad. :rotfl: Of course they get knighted, but they are clueless w***ers nevertheless. :mad:

This is completely off the wall, but have you looked at Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome? Sprains can be one of the signals. Or possibly non sprains that feel like sprains?



At least if you have energy you have some ability to exercise to lose weight if that's what you want/need. Your diet sounds absolutely horrid to me - I really don't know how I'd cope with something like that. I'm finding it hard enough to try and do the low cholesterol diet stuff, but at least I like some fish (loath tuna steak and mackerel), both oily and white, and do have the occasional treat of forbidden food like sausages or a breakfast fry-up.

Good that you have a dietitian advising anyway - your diet sounds so limited it's scary.

Best wishes, and Good Luck!

I don't have ehlors danlos. The sprain feeling is relatively new, usually my pains are far more straight forward 'nuralgia' type things, not all of them but most. My right side is weak, and I get this sprains thing on ankle and knee medial ligament. But nowhere else. I've got no other worrying signs for that. But my neurological system has all sorts of other tricks....its still surprising me.


I know exercise and feeling fit is a gaping hole in my life and sense of 'me' ness. As well as physically not looking like the 'me' I expect to look like. Tbh, I could get worse again not exercising tomorrow....so I might as well try and enjoy the mean time in my opinion, because unfit and 'normally' unhealthy alongside everything else I don't see that I have much hope going for me :rotfl:


Tbh I think the dietician is the least sane and sensible person of them all. The 'sugar' situation is really causing problems for my pcos and other issues. I really wouldn't be surprised if I get diabetes soon. .


DH and I went for a drink this evening and were talking about it and I said that while I went into this fully prepared to give it full crack of the whip I'm not feeling so comfortable with that anymore. Its difficult, there is no doubt I have more energy, but......its still too low cal and its going down as fat, so....its not right.

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

The quickest way to turn me off to a person is the insistence of a genre of music as 'the done genre'. The question what type of anything are you into rules me a little but with music in particular it seems the only possible answer is 'good music'.

The music I like is music that moves me. For good usually

The kind of music I have a physical reaction to. The kind of music that speeds my breath, makes me sweat, and my hair stand up a little. Or that lulls my tense body into relaxing and softening. What that music is changes with my mood, the time of year, what's going on in the world,p, listen ing to music is an active process.

I'm quite opinionated (but open minded) about music. I generally struggle to put music into categories - for me there is music I like (won't go so far as to say that necessarily = good) and music I don't like. Occasionally there is music that I dislike so much that I can't bear to listen to it (e.g. Dancing in the Moonlight by Toploader).

The only Lemon Jelly tune I''m aware of is Nice Weather for Ducks - and I'm afraid to say there is something about it that doesn't do it for me. Not sure what as the components are all bits I should like, there is just something about that combination that I'm not into.

lostinrates

Nikkster wrote: »

I'm quite opinionated (but open minded) about music. I generally struggle to put music into categories - for me there is music I like (won't go so far as to say that necessarily = good) and music I don't like. Occasionally there is music that I dislike so much that I can't bear to listen to it (e.g. Dancing in the Moonlight by Toploader).

The only Lemon Jelly tune I''m aware of is Nice Weather for Ducks - and I'm afraid to say there is something about it that doesn't do it for me. Not sure what as the components are all bits I should like, there is just something about that combination that I'm not into.

No, I'm not that keen on the ducks myself. Dancing in the moonlight is what I call a 'dfs track'. I can right lyrics on the hoof for leather sofas for that sort of thing. It cracks DH up. My faourite to !!!!!!!ise is modjo ' lady'. Its slimy salesman lyric paradise.