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littleme

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Lucy said:
I have found myfitnesspal to be the only thing that works for me.

G&T, if with light tonic, is only about 100 calories.
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I've found that myfitnesspal, and 3 x 1hr hard cardio exercise per week is the only way to go for me (I lost between 2 & 4lb a week) , when I'm at work I regularly do 20,000 steps in 8 hours, but that means for 3 days I barely hit 10,000 (lockdown, sedentary lifestyle & I'm just lazy)....

Anyhow, MrLittleme says... Before meals have a pint at least of water, drink at least 2 litres of water a day (yuck, I hate water), it works for him.

Also from me - fruit is no good, its full of sugar (fructose), carbs (rice, pasta, potato, bread) are also full of sugar (I know this from my diabetes), Lean meat, and green veg, or the Mediterranean diet is the way to go (oily fish, lots of veg).

It's hard, really hard, especially for people like me who have more weight to loose than the regular person. Also im lazy, very very lazy, and am using my 'Nan-bod' status as a reason to not loose weight. I have gym membership but not the motivation to use it, can't wait till the swimming pool opens back up as that's my favourite, and it's easy!
 
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Lucy

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That-Crazy-Rat-Lady said:
You are my new best friend!
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Did I ever show you my gin cupboard?
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Glam

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littleme said:
I've found that myfitnesspal, and 3 x 1hr hard cardio exercise per week is the only way to go for me (I lost between 2 & 4lb a week) , when I'm at work I regularly do 20,000 steps in 8 hours, but that means for 3 days I barely hit 10,000 (lockdown, sedentary lifestyle & I'm just lazy)....

Anyhow, MrLittleme says... Before meals have a pint at least of water, drink at least 2 litres of water a day (yuck, I hate water), it works for him.

Also from me - fruit is no good, its full of sugar (fructose), carbs (rice, pasta, potato, bread) are also full of sugar (I know this from my diabetes), Lean meat, and green veg, or the Mediterranean diet is the way to go (oily fish, lots of veg).

It's hard, really hard, especially for people like me who have more weight to loose than the regular person. Also im lazy, very very lazy, and am using my 'Nan-bod' status as a reason to not loose weight. I have gym membership but not the motivation to use it, can't wait till the swimming pool opens back up as that's my favourite, and it's easy!
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Well.you know how big I am, the last time I cut out chocolate and biscuits, the weight dropped off me. Yes, I eat that much of both!
I'm just getting the courage together to get the bike sorted, just needs the tyres pumping up a bit, then i'm good to go.
Youngest and I tootled over Sainsburys earlier to get a few bits of salad for me, I'm not a big veg eater, but I will have salad.
There was sod all there, no icebergs (only lettuce I will have), the celery looked like last years. So, we'll tootle back over tmrw after work and see what I can get.
 
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Glam said:
Well.you know how big I am, the last time I cut out chocolate and biscuits, the weight dropped off me. Yes, I eat that much of both!
I'm just getting the courage together to get the bike sorted, just needs the tyres pumping up a bit, then i'm good to go.
Youngest and I tootled over Sainsburys earlier to get a few bits of salad for me, I'm not a big veg eater, but I will have salad.
There was sod all there, no icebergs (only lettuce I will have), the celery looked like last years. So, we'll tootle back over tmrw after work and see what I can get.
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I eat salad for lunch at work. Probably get through 2 bags of lettuce leaves a week. this is the perfect time of year to grow salad leaves. I think I paid £3 for 200 mixed lettuce seeds. I plant some up about every 2 weeks and it will keep me going all summer. I fact I'm still using the seeds from last year
 
BobClay

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Talk about good timing. I walked the Lake this morning, got my time down to 56 minutes, which is pre-lockdown standard. I got back and mowed front and back lawns, all of this in glorious sunshine with odd bits of cumulus cloud floating about. Twenty minutes after I'd finished it started raining tropical style, sheets of it. (I can hear the bloody lawns accelerating their growth as I speak.) :o
 
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So that's where I parked it ? .... :eek:

I used to drink in the Telegraph when Alan Hill ran it. (His Dad used to run the Prince of Wales, proper pub in its day.)

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BobClay

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Has anybody ever had that dream where you can't remember where you've parked your car, or bike, and you're wandering around this weird combination of your home town with all manner of other towns or cities you don't recognize thrown in for a laugh ? :embarrass:
 
littleme

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Has anybody ever had that dream where you can't remember where you've parked your car, or bike, and you're wandering around this weird combination of your home town with all manner of other towns or cities you don't recognize thrown in for a laugh ? :embarrass:
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Yes!

In my dream I had driven miles away, parked the car, then couldn't find it, I was roaming all over the ciry that part looked like Stafford and part looked like somewhere else.

Eventually I spotted a M&S store, and one of Staffords staff who I know was working, she called the car parking attendants to find my car, but they couldn't find it either as it was now late at night! I had to phone MrLittleme in the end and admit I was lost, couldn't find my car, and would be to scared to drive it home in the dark if I did find it!

Traumatic or what?!

*also, to top it all off, I had to jump off a 10ft high wall to get to M&S!
 
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BobClay

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It is pretty disturbing. I often have that dream, or variations thereof.

I asked someone who was supposed to interpret dreams about it once, and they replied: "You worry about things you cannot control, which makes you insecure."

I shot the f***er. (The smartarse didn't see that coming.) :P
 
tek-monkey

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Cleaned my windscreen of the accumulated much from lockdown, went out in the car, immediately got a large chip in it from a passing truck :angry:
 
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tek-monkey said:
Cleaned my windscreen of the accumulated much from lockdown, went out in the car, immediately got a large chip in it from a passing truck :angry:
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check your insurance , you may be covered for replacement.
Although i suspect there will be a part payment needed from yourself of around £75 - 150 .
 
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BobClay said:
Has anybody ever had that dream where you can't remember where you've parked your car, or bike, and you're wandering around this weird combination of your home town with all manner of other towns or cities you don't recognize thrown in for a laugh ? :embarrass:
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Not a dream about losing the car, but in real life went to Blackpool in our younger days without pre-booking. Eventually found digs for the night , parked the car on the pavement on a corner nearby as instructed by the landlady , slung our stuff in the room and went out on the town for the night. Several pubs and nightclubs later, came to stagger back to the B&B and couldn't remember where it was (Lesson learnt ! Make a note of the hotel and street names ! ) Took us hours staggering around nearly every road in Blackpool in the early hours looking for our car parked on a corner.
Luckily the car was parked outside , or we would have never found our suitcases again :lol:
 
littleme

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Immensely proud mum moment, medium sized son got his degree results today...

He got a 1st!

....all while working nights in Wolstanton, studying in Birmingham, buying his first house in Stafford, decorating, gardening, coping with furlough, all as an older student returning to education!

So very very proud.

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BobClay

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My last trip to Blackpool was a coach trip from the Nag's Head pub in the late 80's. Pleasure Beach white knuckle rides ... pub ... eat ... pub ... nightclub. I can definitely relate to that.

We of course drove back in the early hours of the next day (it was light when we got to Stafford.) We'd lost two at a pee stop in Knutsford services, they might well still be wandering around there.

Wandering around motorway services for eternity ... now that is a nightmare ... :P
 
Gramaisc

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Thunderstorms drifting past here all day, but not a drop, and sunshine most of the time - lots done, cut back, shredded, turned into the fallow plots - lawns cut and edged. Rain arrived as I had just put everything away and would have flicked a Total Irrigation switch, if I had one. Biblical rain for an hour.

Ideal timing.

Before the storm that got us, we had a strange, rectangular-looking cloud, although I didn't get to see it from directly underneath.

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Within seconds of the rain ending, I had a tap on the window and was required to provide supper.

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Lucy

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Well done medium littleme!

The rain is sheeting down again here, I went to play golf earlier and couldn't see all the way to Haughton, but once I got to Stafford there was no rain but a lot of thunder. Not really any lightning though, really odd.
 
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