Things can only get better

IzzyBee

I I used to work in a town about 6miles from where I live and it was a different world I could struggle to the bus stand praying the bus would turn up and get to work nothing and worry all day about getting home many a time I’ve walked the last couple of mile because the bus couldn’t go any further and walked around in my dinner break like a yeti people couldn’t believe it when my mam was alive she always used to say I can’t visit you it’s to cold you get snow in July up there it’s like a lot of places lovely in the summer 

RelievedSheff

We had some snow earlier but mostly gone now. We are however both concerned about the junction outside our house tonight. It was slushy but has now frozen solid, the roads are not adopted yet so not gritted and it is turning to a sheet of ice. The delivery drivers drive round here like mad men, very inappropriate for a estate road and we can both see an accident waiting to happen tonight 🙄

milann

When we first got married we lived in a little terraced house on a hill like that - but it was cobbled. Dh used to work at the hospital and often started at 6 am....he often had to phone in as he couldn’t get the car out....between the cobbles used to freeze solid. Once you got off our street onto the flat  tarmac roads it was fine.....bet work thought  he was swinging the lead. They did eventually tarmac the road....just after we’d moved 😱 typical. The icy hill was part of the reason we moved.

Onebrokelady

Sun_Addict said:

I talk about the steep hills where I live. This is the steepest hill of them all and I used to live at the house on the top left. It was an absolute nightmare in winter, had to crawl up on hands and knees if it was snowy or icy. Even in summer you had to walk sideways to cross.

I live at the top of a hill like this,it's treacherous in the winter 🙀and my nearest bus stop is a quarter of the way down, I hate it in winter 

Sun_Addict

Fortunately we live on a flat road but it’s difficult to get anywhere without going up or down a hill. The buses stop running at the first snowflake. On the plus side we don’t get snow on a regular basis and it tends to disappear as soon as it lands.

Onebrokelady

Sun_Addict said:

Fortunately we live on a flat road but it’s difficult to get anywhere without going up or down a hill. The buses stop running at the first snowflake. On the plus side we don’t get snow on a regular basis and it tends to disappear as soon as it lands.

I'm on a flat bit once I get to the top of two hills,everywhere in Devon is hilly and since I moved here I've never lived anywhere flat 😳

ladyholly

Onebrokelady said:

I'm on a flat bit once I get to the top of two hills,everywhere in Devon is hilly and since I moved here I've never lived anywhere flat 😳

That is true we lived in both Totnes and Paignton both times at the top of a hill. We no0w live in the next county north and although there are hills we deliberately chose a house on the flat. Mind you with rising sea levels and we are not that far from the Somerset levels I am not sure it was a good move.

Cherryfudge

IzzyBee said: I have a under active thyroid which doesn’t help but then neither does chocolate 

I have an underactive thyroid too @IzzyBee, and an active job, but I find I have to exercise as well as watch what I eat. I burn around 1500 calories in a day at home and eating less than that is hard work in the longer term. It might be 1800 or so if I'm at work but can go over 2000 if I run say, 6 to 10km. So the maths says exercise is important for me to help reset my weight. We're all different but I do feel the British guidelines of 2000 calories maintenance diet for a woman is part of the reason so many of us are overweight! Some years ago on holiday I noticed that the recommended calories for women are less in France than in England - and the women there are slimmer. I know there are other factors about national dietary norms and possibly about activity, portion size and so on but I do feel the 2000 calories is an oversimplification.
Anyway I will climb down off my hobby horse and wish you well as you get fitter.

RelievedSheff

Cherryfudge said:

IzzyBee said: I have a under active thyroid which doesn’t help but then neither does chocolate 

I have an underactive thyroid too @IzzyBee, and an active job, but I find I have to exercise as well as watch what I eat. I burn around 1500 calories in a day at home and eating less than that is hard work in the longer term. It might be 1800 or so if I'm at work but can go over 2000 if I run say, 6 to 10km. So the maths says exercise is important for me to help reset my weight. We're all different but I do feel the British guidelines of 2000 calories maintenance diet for a woman is part of the reason so many of us are overweight! Some years ago on holiday I noticed that the recommended calories for women are less in France than in England - and the women there are slimmer. I know there are other factors about national dietary norms and possibly about activity, portion size and so on but I do feel the 2000 calories is an oversimplification.
Anyway I will climb down off my hobby horse and wish you well as you get fitter.

I'm pretty sure that the vast majority of people in the UK take zero interest in their calorie intake which is the biggest contribution to this countries obesity problem. People just don't care what they eat nowadays 🤔

It is of course always someone else's fault when they are overweight!

ladyholly

I wish I could blame someone else but it is all me. DH is almost 6ft tall and weighs between 9 and 10 stone depending on how he is feeling, what the weather is doing and goodness knows what else. I am sure people think I dont feed him. I do!! Honest.