Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

That's what I keep telling myself. And again. And again and again...

Well... there are different parts of the scale ...... I guess it's OK for those rich people we see on the telly that are viewing ropey houses and planning to spend £30-50k immediately to do it up .... and it's OK for those with a DIY expert/partner who is super keen to do all the work and who has a large family/collection of friends in trades who can help them achieve the finished thing with just 2 months and £10k (aka HutH).

But ..... when it's just you, with a drill and no bits and no experience .... you can sit and think .... what WAS I thinking?



It'll work out in the end. In the meantime you've lots of rooms to wander around and think "I've got lots of rooms.... it's got potential".

How long have you been there now?

Generali

michaels wrote: »

I know this is not the right thread but anyone else not fancy waking up to this bathroom at 6AM

Pic 9 http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-30793077.html

Not for a million quid I don't! Presumably that'll be the approximate value in a year or so.

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

Well... there are different parts of the scale ...... I guess it's OK for those rich people we see on the telly that are viewing ropey houses and planning to spend £30-50k immediately to do it up .... and it's OK for those with a DIY expert/partner who is super keen to do all the work and who has a large family/collection of friends in trades who can help them achieve the finished thing with just 2 months and £10k (aka HutH).

But ..... when it's just you, with a drill and no bits and no experience .... you can sit and think .... what WAS I thinking?



It'll work out in the end. In the meantime you've lots of rooms to wander around and think "I've got lots of rooms.... it's got potential".

How long have you been there now?

I'm sure I bit off a lot more than I should have, but my main motivation was not living with someone elses refurb (aka shoving in the cheapest bathroom suite they could find in b+q). Its all about the potential

I've been in here just over 8 months (within a coupe of days of). A year ago this house wasn't even on my radar!

Edit: at 8 months in are you going to tell me I should have got loads more done by now PN?

GDB2222

zagubov wrote: »

Reminds me about that discussion we had about parallel lines, nausea and astigmatism! :eek:

I've got astigmatism. Yo said parallel lines, but you meant curved? Right?

PasturesNew

Randomly chucking this is. This is the system/newspaper that I said about a week ago that I'd seen where "anybody" can simply edit the OCR results of the scanned newspaper pages.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/17000743

Yorkie1

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Mortgage funds arrived at solicitors on Friday, completion tomorrow.

:eek:

Good luck tomorrow :beer:

zagubov wrote: »

A few posters here have mentioned the 5:2 diet. Can anyone share any successes/fails/points/tips observations with me as I'm looking into it and this may be the time to start.
Please pm me or contact me directly if you know how. Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer.

One thing about it is the flexibility it provides. As long as you don't do 2 consecutive days, it's up to you how to pace yourself on a 600 cal (for men) day.

When I was doing it before Easter, I didn't have breakfast (which is often the norm for me anyway), had a T*sco Healthy Living soup from a packet - the chicken noodle one at 44 cals is pretty tasty but avoid the lentil and bacon one - at lunchtime, drank my usual cups of tea (with skimmed milk as usual), and then had a meal of <400 cals in the evening. If I didn't eat something solid in the evening, I found I went to bed hungry, which is no fun.

I have the 1st Hairy Dieters cookbook and found that had quite a lot of decent recipes. The Spanish chicken bake was particularly good.

On some days I probably went over 500 cals but I wasn't that obsessive about it.

One thing to watch out for is making sure you don't get dehydrated. You can get quite a lot of liquid through food, and if you cut out the food then you lose the liquid.

vivatifosi

(Now I've heard everyone is ok)...

And that ladies and gentleman was what you call a Grand Prix. Superb.

Yorkie1

vivatifosi wrote: »

(Now I've heard everyone is ok)...

And that ladies and gentleman was what you call a Grand Prix. Superb.

Just when you thought it was all over bar the shouting ... :eek:

Superb indeed!

tomterm8

zagubov wrote: »

A few posters here have mentioned the 5:2 diet. Can anyone share any successes/fails/points/tips observations with me as I'm looking into it and this may be the time to start.
Please pm me or contact me directly if you know how. Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer.

Well... I guess I'll bite.

The thing is all diets are fundamentally the same. It's all about mathematics, at the end of the day. Diets work by restricting the amount of calories that you eat... for example, if you do the math on the 5:2 diet you get to a deficit that should produce a 1lb a week on average weight loss a week for most people who aren't morbidly obese. The on average means there will be weeks where you gain weight, and weeks where you stay the same.

The difference between the 5:2 diet and other diets is that it focuses most of the reduction in calories into two days a week.

There are a lot of health claims related to 5:2. I think in the main these are unproven. The one claim that really does hold water is that it reduces inflammation. That's the reason that I chose to do the 5:2 diet rather than another one... I have a disease called lipodermatosclerosis where the pain vector is caused by inflammation. Since I went on the 5:2 diet I have had very little pain from this disease.

But for normal purposes, the 5:2 diet is no better or no worse than any calorie controlled diet that maintains the deficit needed for 1lb a weeks weight loss.

Which diet you choose comes down for most people to psychology. Are you going to do better heavily restricting your diet for two days a week, or lightly restricting for 7?

It's important not to do consecutive fasts, because your body only stores a limited amount of protein so you'll lose muscle if you do consecutive fast days. Other than that when you choose to do a fast is up to you.

There really aren't many hints and tips I can give... there's no secrets to it that I can see. In general fast days are easier if you are busy, and they become easier over time.

The first few fast days are a miserable affair, and don't doubt it.

The easiest way is to do what I did... go onto a intermittent fasting routine that starts with a smaller number of hours (for example, an 8 hour eating window) then move to the fast day. But it took me several attempts before I went an entire day with minimal food.

vivatifosi

Happened across a website by accident. We talk a bit on here about different religions, this is a list of famous followers of lots of different religions... Has a bit on famous scientists too.

http://www.adherents.com/