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suzisoo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ha ,I started this diet after Christmas, the > weight was dropping off and I was going around > telling everyone how great it was. After a while I > stopped as I felt I had lost enough but the weight > continued to drop and I began to be very ill. It > turns out I have an overactive thyroid. So now I > can eat anything I like and still stay thin. > However I think I would rather be a bit overweight > than suffer the exhaustion this has brought. xxxxxxx :(

Really good news! Come on you pink and blues! :))

lousmith Wrote: ------------------------------------ > are there plants? I'm sure it'll be fine now the > body has gone. xxxxx Yes but some got scooped up with the body:( Will get some more.

Sandals and black socks with denim shorts? That's what's really bringing the area down! Crap clothes!

OOOOPS I grovel, my html was rubbish :))

It was dead and beginning to decompose :( OH has removed it. Poor frog. Now need to try to increase the oxygen level in the water I think.

Can you PM me what I did, so I don't do it again, as I still don't know what it was? Ta.

El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > of course it's not forbidden, it's just that you > did > > &lti&gtwords here > > and then copy and pasted it umpteen times, meaning > some well meaning moderator type had to do lots of > search and replacing for you. > Just try and do it properly next time ;-P xxxxxx Don't understand, duh. So far as I recall I didn't copy and paste anything, and even if I had the html would have been the same as if I'd typed it in separately, surely? I can't show you what I used because it doesn't come out properly on its own, but it had this effect: words here What I used was only what is showing up on your post, not the symbols that are showing up in your post when I edit. And I checked it in the preview before I posted it, and it all looked fine :( Can't look now obviously, because it's all gone. Sorry to have put someone to so much trouble, but I've used every symbol I used before on here with no problem :(

Well due to reflections on the water I couldn't even see it when I came to do it! Had a feel around but couldn't find it, but if it was dead I might have moved it anyway without realising :( Will try to persuade my OH to do it tomorrow. I wore rubber gloves (not the powdered sort) but still feel a bit squeamish. Happy to hold live frogs, not possibly dead ones.

My insurance is just up for renewal. I had been under the impression that I had had subsidence in the past but my current insurer has looked into my previous claims and has just told me that the two claims were treated as "ground movement" which is not as serious as subsidence. She says there are four categories of movement: Subsidence/heave/landslip/ground movement. What I have always thought was subsidence was in one case due to differential movement between my front bay and the rest of the house and in the other due to a problem with drains, which was completly sorted at the time. I want to get other quotes but I'm now very confused. Obviously I have to declare the claims, but are they or are they not for subsidence? My current insurer says some underwriters will treat them as subsidence and some won't ?????? Can anybody shed any light?

lousmith Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Likewise the frog. It may be that it sees you > coming and dives to the bottom. Check it to see if > its alive and definitely hook it out if it is not. xxxxxx Thanks Lousmith. Oh dear, I think I'd better go and do it now then. Not looking forward to it :(

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Blue Moon - to be honest I find it drinkable > enough, but it's basically a poor imitation of a > belgian wheat bear, so just seems a little > pointless. xxxxxx I don't like Blue Moon at all, and yet there must be sufficient people who drink it for the EDT to continue to sell it. Yet they had a great dark lager which was really yummy, which they no longer have because apparently I was the only person who drunk it (and only once a week, so it must have taken a long time to finish their stock!)

I think different things suit different people. Of course ideally one would always eat healthily and only just enough, and exercise more. But we aren't all paragons of virtue. Most people who go on a diet where they restrict their calories (by whatever method) on a 24/7 basis put all the weight back on again. Many people can't stick to a diet because they miss certain things. The 5:2 diet overcomes some of the drawbacks of other diets. Whether you choose to eat healthily or not healthily on any of the days is a separate issue really, I feel. Obviously a regime of fast food, fat and sugar is not going to improve your health. Also once you are down to a reasonable weight, you can keep it to that level by having the odd "fast" day when necessary. But if you're the kind of person who can always eat healthily and get lots of exercise, hats off to you :)

El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > oi sue, you need a licence to operate html tags > you know!! xxxxxx Seriously, is it forbidden on the forum? I didn't know that. I was just trying to make a mass of text a bit clearer to differentiate who said what! I've gone back and used spacing now. I'll take my comment at the bottom out, as I hadn't seen your post when I edited mine.

http://www.beautifulbritain.co.uk/htm/pond/frogspawn.htm Some of my frogspawn has hatched into extremely tiny tadpoles. However there are things in the water which look like some kind of large water-living woodlice (yuk) and I have a horrible feeling they are eating the taddies :( Some of the frogspawn developed white dots and apparently this means they are dead? It dropped below the surface a day or so after the hatching anyway, so I can't see what is happening in/to it any more or even if it's still there. Don't know what to do about the frog which I thought was hibernating. It was certainly hibernating at the point when I inadvertently hauled it out of the water with dead leaves, because it jumped back into the tub, but I would have thought it would have woken up by now? I did prod it gently with a garden cane, but didn't see it move at all. It is face down at the bottom of the tub (ie not belly-up) and doesn't appear to be decomposing. Not sure what to do. If it is dead I don't want to leave it there but I also don't want to disturb it again if it's still hibernating. Any frog experts got any suggestions? The other froggie has left the tub :)) Seen some small blue butterflies. Lovely to see everything blossoming and/or flying!

Surely you're more likely to get your answer by going to each of the restaurants and asking them, rather than asking for people's opinions on here?

maxxi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "Impaled by the sight, we were held transfixed > ..." - someone needs to get laid. xxxxxx :)) :)) :)) ETA: Voyageur, I haven't looked at the website you mentioned yet but surely, surely, surely that winning entry was deliberately written to be bad?

El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > isn't he a scientologist? says it all really. xxxxxxx In case anybody thinks that has anything to do with how I came to be looking at the website, heaven forbid, it was because I came across this quote: ?All I ask is for an objective consideration of all the evidence. Anyone who won't do that isn?t really entitled to an opinion.? ? Travis Walton I thought it was an excellent quote, and I'd never heard of Travis Walton, so I googled him. Now I sort of wish I hadn't :)) And the writing is so extraordinarily bad that I can't even read enough of it to find out what his supposed evidence is :))

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > Finding the fasting days quite hard, but have > not > cheated at all because I know I can eat what I > want the next day. xxxxx > > The reason for that is when you I'm taking the > feasting days too literally > you will get a Peak in your blood glucose.. The > later you eat the higher the peak. > this will be followed by a crash. so you will > feel Hungry on fasting days. xxxxxxxxxxxx No, I'm feeling hungry on fasting days because I'm not eating very much and that is the body's usual signal that it wants food.. xxxxxxxx > ETA: I've also found that the morning after a > fast day I'm not hungry. xxxxxx > > This is because the brain tells the body not to > expect food and use fat reserves.. xxxxxxxxx No, fat reserves are only used after a longer period of fasting than a day, which is why the 5:2 diet specifically says that your fasting days should not be consecutive. xxxxxxxx > Sadly I'm not losing much weight because I think > I'm taking the feasting days too literally xxxxx > This is because the brain tells the body to > retain water reduce dehydration. xxxxxxx Fox, water retention does not continue to increase in the body over several months of dieting. xxxxxxxx > Plus I'm a lazy slob and not getting enough > exercise. xxxxx > > You need to walk 5 miles + each day to start > losing any weight xxxxxxx Sorry Fox but that is just absolute rubbish. Where on earth do you get your information from? You need to expend more calories in energy than you are taking in in food over the same period, and that is how you lose weight. xxxxxxxx > I find a bit of bouillon or marmite in hot water > helps to stave off the hunger pangs, xxxxx > > Again the Salt in Marmite causes water retention > which cases High Blood Pressure. xxxxxx Oh for goodness sake. Half a teaspoon of Marmite occasionally is not going to give me high blood pressure, and in any case I have low blood pressure. xxxxxxx > When anyone (Diabetic or non Diabetic) eats on an > empty stomach, there will always be > blood sugar highs and lows. This is not good. xxxxxx That is rubbish. A couple of boiled eggs, for example, on an empty stomach does not give you "blood sugar highs and lows", at least not enough to cause any significant damage or symptoms. xxxxxxxxx > > I know if I skip breakfast a meal later will send > my sugars soaring. > If I eat breakfast the same meal later will have > little impact on my sugars.. xxxxxxx It depends on what you're eating and whether it is high or low GI, which has absolutely nothing to do with the 5:2 diet xxxxxxx > This is the same for non diabetics. But you will > be able to cope with this imbalance (For a while) > But continuing to have fluctuating glucose level > will make you ill. xxxxxxx You are confusing several different issues here. ETA: Hope it's clear who has said what, as my bold italics have been removed - see below! I've now tried to differentiate Fox and my posts by spacing and xxxx but not sure it has worked ....

mwah xxx :)) Memo to self: Gig tomorrow, go to bed :))

numbers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Or you could just eat real food (meat, fish, eggs, > dairy, vegetables, fruits in season and whole > grains in moderation); three times a day and get > on with your life." xxxxxxx But what if your life involves pistachio or hazelnut ice cream from http://www.oddonos.com/shops.htm , lots of real ale and the occasional Crunchie bar??

handymaneast dulwich Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I live right oppersite the pub for over 30 years > and have only ever been in that pub 5 times. xxxxxxx You're not a drinking man, then? :))

londoner_77 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This sounds great. Dulwich Village is woefully > (and surprisingly!) lacking in decent places to > have a drink or meal! xxxxxx Eh? The Dog is fine to have a drink in. Don't know about the food as I've never eaten there. ETA: I mean never eaten there in its most recent incarnation. I had one of the very worst meals of my life there about ten years ago ......

In theory yes. In practice no. Been there, done that, now intend to maintain my weight (once I've reached it) by the occasional fast day. Can't go to the weight I once was though because x years on I would look like a ghoul :)) As opposed to a slender sylph :))

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Last year sucked big time on the 'edibles' front > though. Apples, crap. Tomatoes, crap. Beans, crap. > Bloody nature, eh? xxxxxx Same here. I'm not even bothering this year. Started the f-ing tomatoes from seed in my spare bedroom, nursed them for weeks indoors and out and the whole lot fell at the last fence. And I got about two beans. At least I don't have a garden big enough for an apple tree :))