Recent Content by Jo_the_boat

You might find some help here. or The Barge Association

Chair exercises? Resistance bands? Exercise bike at home or rowing machine? You don't have to go to a gym to lift weights. It's not all about exercise anyway, though I think (non-medic I hasten to add) it's a huge help, it's lifestyle in general, including diet, good sleep, less stress, no...

Good, weight loss plan seems to be working then........... :oops:

Yes, I saw that. Let's hope it's due to high demand for healthier beer rather than 'not worth brewing it because it's not selling'.

Medical advice.... change doctors (surgery).

I am NOT a medic! But...... There is a school of thought (that I like) that says with all that medication you're on, you are treating the symptoms rather than the condition itself. I have no idea what assistance is available where you are, but, having read on here, and listened and read dietary...

This seemed to have spawned some debate. Thank you for your input. It's fair to say that to get one's head round it, you need degrees in both logic and linguistics. Plus of course be a chemical engineer and a nutritional scientist. With this stuff however, you only need one qualification!

Out of interest, here is 100g prepared couscous. 27.5 g carbs. It's part of my weight loss programme. After last night's lemon meringue pie with custard and couscous (10g carbs), I slept like a log. :oops: Photo: side plate, pen for scale

I'm being thick here........ please help. The packet of couscous is 110g It says under the 'Great to Know' sectuion: Carbs per 100g: 27.5g Carbs per half pack: 38.5g. Now, a half packet is 55g? In which case carbs should be roughly 15g per half pack? (Ignore the rest of the ingredients...

I got so fed up with the inconsistency of SLC I tried Heylo. A mixture of things. Some of it tasted OK like the seeded bread and brown bread, but I found the loaves small, almost Soreen fruity malty loaf size and not ideal for my poached eggs. But the white bread was a horror show, tasting like...

In my OP I got wrapped up in the hype and it took a few well-directed posts from sensible folk on here to save me £80. This one 'looks' to be another in similar vein. I have more than a healthy disrespect for all things medical and trials thereof after our less than forthright research and...

Went to the cinema yesterday (first time for ages) and was frankly dismayed by all the junk food. The literally wasn't a single thing for me to eat. It was all just manufactured junk. In fact, my wife bought me a coffee, I asked for white, but instead of a White Americano, which is industrial...

I buy from Seriously too. Products are pretty good but their quality control is appalling - loaves different sizes, all squashed in the box at delivery, last lot of bread rolls I got were like rocks. BUT... there's not much V. low carb out there and their products are vehicles for, for example...

There are plenty of negative stories about these weight loss drugs - go carefully.

Thanks. The jury is still out on my (cheap) smart watch. Sleep OK, pulse OK, time and a few other things, BUT.... Went to a Warner Hotel and had a go at archery. The forearm protector you have to wear was digging into my wrist so when I came to look at the watch after we'd finished, everything...