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Half a custard tart?! Sacrilege.

 

You could eat a whole one and then cut down on future custard tarts. I do this....it means I can't have any tarts at all in 2022.

 

Hey. You can use that; I'll let you

 

Well shock..! Horror..! I don't like being overweight, OK..?

Don't tell me I've been corresponding these past 3+ years with a bunch of lardy cakes..? I can take a couple [FLT+1] but not all, please.

Someone honestly tell me they are a little more svelte than obese.

 

It's sad to hear that the inventor of predictive text has died.
His funfair will be hello on sundial...

 

That's, like, the whole point of a diet.

 

I can hardly walk im so big.

 

no it's not.

 

This is the moment when hitler found out Suarez was leaving Liverpool ......

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zzEBBv_P0_I

 

First rule of fat club is don't get too big...turn it around while you can. But as you said, Jen, the whole point of a diet is healthy eating and certainly not starving. I had to change my diet to more fish and veg and I lost a stone when I wasn't even trying to.

 

Err, it's the whole point of a slimming diet. That's why you lose weight.

 

no, 400 calories is not the way to lose weight. its not enough to keep you going, your metabolism slows and that's why it all goes back on again.

 

Yeah, I think I read somewhere it's best to eat lots of small meals and not to skip meals.

 

No, you have to stay active as well. People could eat thousands upon thousands of calories per day, and as long as they burned more than they consumed, they'd lose weight. It's not rocket science. If you once again eat as before you slowly return to the weight you had before the diet [as I said before in an earlier post].

Here's an extreme example: when Sir Ranulph Fiennes walked across the Antarctic with his friend Dr Stroud, pulling sledges, they consumed 15,000 calories per day in any way they could, largely chocolate and fatty foods, and they still lost a huge amount of weight. Look it up. Fiennes started the trip as a fairly youngish looking man in his mid 40s. By the end he looked like a man in his late 60s, he was so thin and emaciated. The book is called Mind Over Matter

Basically, if you are more active than your daily calorie intake sustains your weight you will lose some. It all depends upon you, and your discipline to do it. Keep active and take vitamins and nutritional substitutes. Personally, I'm like a large proportion of the rest of the western world, I can't be bothered, for the most part. Hence I'm a stone overweight. Sometimes I manage to do it.

The thing is, for longevity it isn't a good idea to eat extreme amounts of food, be that way too little or way too much. The body's dietary system just cannot cope. Which is why crash diets are short as well as extreme. Far better to slowly do it. And keep active.

Well, that was interesting.

 

I've just finished watching DJango on the Sony PS3 I repaired the other week. I mention because it was a Blu-Ray disc [PS3 has an onboard Blu-Ray player for those who don't know] and very detailed it was too. In terms of photography it's the best Blu-Ray I've seen on my TV so far. Blimey was it well photographed. I spent the first 20 minutes just looking at the details. Sadly, it was a typical Tarantino film though. I couldn't completely enjoy it because it was cheapened by his lust for movie blood and simple retribution themes. Despite a heavyweight subject it's a lightweight film. It held no shocks or surprises [no spoilers from me]. It doesn't even really make it as a spaghetti western, as they were meant to be serious, and the humour was in their overall cheapness. If you really want to watch a seriously fabulous modern film in the old style Western genre I point to Open Range [2003] as being head and shoulders above anything in the last 20 or 30 years. There haven't been that many so it doesn't have much competition.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...-Dyer-and-Titus-Bramble-slam-Rooney-Rule.html

Ex players slamming the Rooney Rule. I agree with what they say completely.

 

Completely agree. People should get places on merit only. Not because you have good connections or any other form of leg-up. Sadly, good connections will never end due to favouritism, and bad timing can never be ironed out. The potential careers that have probably gone to waste just because they weren't quite needed at the very time they were available, is probably the biggest sadness of all. Talented people don't always make it to the top.

 

I actually agree with them, too. I've always felt that 'the Rooney Rule' just makes people 'token black guy' rather than resolving the issue.

 

That reminds me, Patrick Vieira is in charge of the Elite Development Squad at Manchester City - arguably one of the world's biggest clubs at current.

(Elite Development Squad = U21s, for most of us laymen)

It'd be great to see him step into a management role at senior level and excel, I've read good things about him so far from his role at City.

Radhi Jaïdi is assistant manager to the U21s alongside his role in the scouting and analysis departments. Saints are helping to fund his Pro Licence.

Radhi routinely takes U18 training also, and coaches the U21s too. Often seen in the dugout with Martin Hunter.

At lower levels of Saints' coaching ladder, there are plenty of ethnic minorities (not just black but Asian also) coaching the younger players (8-15 year olds).

 

Found myself caught up in this today. Traffic ground to crawl on the lanes closest so i had these beast blowing dust at my van. I tried to get a picture but seeing as we were still moving i couldnt get much. Also found myself in the midst of 30 cops exiting a bus yesterday eyeing my work tools to establish the threat level of my secateurs.

[video=youtube;WgvuF-72YCc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgvuF-72YCc[/video]

P.S Please ignore the idiot blathering on.