Evening all

Well 2025 has had a bit of a dreary start to it so far. It’s supposed to be summer, but we’ve had grey rainy, windy weather and temperatures in the mid teens. Yesterday we were sick of it so we drove 2 hours into Roxburgh where the forecast was supposed to be sunny and 26 degrees rather the overcast and 16 degrees we were forecast to be getting.

This morning was fine and warm so I went out for a bike ride. I overdid it a bit and ended up riding 4.5 hours and rode 108kms, now I can hardly move my legs. But that doesn’t matter because a couple of hours after I got back the weather closed in and we got heavy rain and gale force winds again, so we’re confined to the house.

Thin, sounds like you had a great break, and congrats on getting your weight where you want to be.

Weigh-in for me tomorrow, hopefully I’ll see a little movement on the scale.

Cinque, it’s a constant struggle to stop from bingeing. It is getting easier at the moment with the increase in cheap fresh summer fruit and veg. When we were in Roxburgh we went to an orchard that did pick-your-own cherries and picked up a couple of kilos.

Well have a good one everyone.

Hello everyone,
Lovely to see your posts Thin, and hear about that extraordinary pet sitting! What a way to celebrate Christmas. And congratulations on being back to 6:1. Well done.

Neil, we have a week of sunny weather in the 30’s so I wonder if it will make it across the Tasman. Hooray that you and the family got to a warmer place and got a good bike ride in before the weather closed. But why is that nasty weather after you?

Sigh yes binge eating. Hooray that now I am back to enjoyable frugal eating. Long may it last.

Evening all

First weigh-in of the year was down half a kilo, so far so good. I was pleased with how well my body recovered from my ride yesterday. I could hardly walk yesterday evening, then this morning my body felt fine.

Cinque, I think the weather is supposed to be improving next week, just in time for me to go back to work….typical 🙄

Thin, that sounds like the way tipping is supposed to work, rather than in the states where you’re just expected to tip 20% at least regardless of the level of service.

Lindsay, that sounds like a good goal. I don’t eat a lot of UPF, but it certainly finds its way into my diet in places. I think it was the show “eat well for less” one episode they displayed the average UK diet comparison from the 1980s and now. I think it was something like 5%-10% ultra processed food in the 80s, and over 65% now.

My goals are to track my food consistently, continue riding as often as possible, and if I do that, hopefully the weight will take care of itself

Have a good one everyone.

Neil that is really weird, because I can’t see it’s been posted. And now the copy seems to have disappeared. Perhaps you could post it for me 🙂

Oh the disappearing messages, Lindsay! I can’t see your post either. That will be weird to see Neil’s name with a message from you but I’m looking forward to it.

Neil, good luck with your eating and biking plan. I really hope you’ll be posting those double digits this year. I was watching a no-nonsense food/nutrition doco last evening. It focussed a lot on glucose spiking. The presenter was emphasising to a 31 year old lady weighing 197 kgs, yes kilos, that if she must include sweet items in her diet, they should never be eaten as a between-meal snack, instead she should save them to consume as a dessert because, after a meal of protein and fat, there will be less insulin spiking. It is staggering how little people know about nutrition and, as GDSA mentioned, we have a whole new generation that has no idea how to cook a meal. What happened to teaching what we called ‘domestic science’ in high school? 25% of Britons are obese and a further 37% are overweight.

Morning all.
Neil, thank you for posting my post. How very odd, that you could see it,but it didn’t make it on to the site under its own steam.

Thin, yes, three years since OH was diagnosed. We are still fighting with the hospital over compensation. It truly isn’t about money. Had that been the goal, we could have sued the anaethetist who prescribed the penicillin. But he immediately owned his mistake, kept in touch, and told us what he was doing to ensure that mistake recurring. The hospital, on the other hand, discharged OH while he was having a heart attack, in their rush to get him out the door, and then wiped their hands of him. No follow up, no offer of care. Just a letter from their lawyers, telling us to negotiate with them if we wanted compensation. And this, after full admissions of their errors. Despite it all, he is so resilient and goes along fortnightly for his immunotherapy without any hesitation. But it will be good when the legal stuff is over – I find it very upsetting.

The island is lovely at the moment – and not too busy with school holidays, fortunately, although there are a lot of families here. We hear so much about recession and cost of living crisis. And I am sure the ‘have nots’ are having less, while the ‘haves’ are having more. But it’s a funny thing – there was a woman on television last night being interviewed about how much groceries cost, and how hard it was to make ends meet. And there she was, with the debris from what appeared to be a nice cafe meal in front of her. Priorities, I guess. I don’t remember when we were kids, or when OH and I were struggling with mortgage/kids etc, ever being able to afford even a coffee out. It seems the norm now. (Oh don’t I sound like an old person – which of course I am, if we’re being technical …but really I’m just reflecting on how a cafe meal now is factored into the cost of living.

Thin, that doco on glucose spiking. Was that a young French (I think) woman who calls herself the Glucose Goddess and blogs about controlling glucose? She’s very interesting and has a number of simple strategies …ie eat a good protein breakfast, don’t eat sugary foods between meals (add them after a meal), drink a tablespoon of vinegar before the highest carb meal of the day, and exercise for 10 minutes aftr the evening meal. All easy to do and designed to keep glucose levels stable.

OK, breakfast time. Boiled egg, I think, and a slice of sourdough. OH has lost his appetite, so it’s a bit of a challenge to get him to eat enough protein. But a boiled egg always does it, and a lovely mango, the last we picked off the tree before we came away.

Cinque are you a tennis fan? Only a few days to go before the AO.

Happy Friday all.