Recent Content by Lataxe

Well done! If a health "condition" can be fixed by your own changes in behaviour rather than a drug this seems a much kinder (to your psychology and your wallet) way to fix things. Testing diets are seemingly unavoidable to lose the excess weight that's interfering with one's pancreas. It's...

Do you need an app? Personally I find the old-fashioned mode of looking myself at the base data (e.g. foodstuff contents and various descriptions of diet types and effects) much better at gaining an understanding about what to do and how to do it; and at judging the results. It may sound rather...

'Morning all, Another week of dieting at 800 - 1000 calories a day sees me now at 12st 11.0 llbs - another 2llbs of weight shed in a week. So far, so good then. I'm not finding it difficult to keep to this regime although I do miss the pleasures of eating a more normal diet (for the pleasures...

It's been a subject of contention for many years, really. It seemed to begin with the notions of "the stone age diet" which there's no evidence for of any definitive kind but which can be the subject of very educated guesses. The guesses tend to go: hunter gatherers didn't/couldn't gather stuff...

'Morning Orson, The umbilical hernia - as you suggest, I'm going to avoid surgery for what seems to be the eventual failure of a keyhole surgery stitch-up eight years after having my gall bladder removed through the teeny belly-button hole. Most advice seems to suggest that the repair of such a...

'Afternoon Pipp, I've now been dieting (low-to-zero carb one-meal-a-day + one glass of meal replacement stuff) for just over one week. Happily I don't seem to be developing food cravings or otherwise feeling hungry all the time. An estimation of the calorie count tells me I'm having 800 - 1000...

'Morning Pipp, After some interwebbery "research" (poking about various websites offering reviews on a range of meal repalcement products) I decided to try the meal replacement shakes in powder form from SciMx. It seems to be oriented at weight loss, with a wide range of 24 "micro-nutriments"...

Hi Pipp, Thanks for your comprehensive reply and the history of your Newcastle diet experience - a very helpful bit of info. The umbilical hernia - doc's advice was that the NHS is queue-bound just now so that minor things like umbilical hernias are likely to see a wait of years. Unless of...

Just recently I acquired an umbilical hernia. The doc tells me that there's no chance of an NHS fixing operation but that losing weight would help keep the little rascal benign. In truth, I've been thinking for a while about losing weight as, although I'm not diabetic just now, it's probably a...