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Whats the right diet.. Bbc2

Watched it last night!
on the supermarket bit, daughter piped up "You'd get filtered out of this, Dad, you'd be buying what YOU wanted, muttering "I ain't buying THAT ****":mad:"
 
Dibbles1 said:
:hilarious: Cost us £135 in Salisbury the other day for a new tyre, after we picked up a screw in the tread on the way to town... Should have been £200 but the guy took pity on us along with the '0' vat.
Still costly after xmas though.
So you'll save the money for the lesson with the cop :hilarious:
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Hi, @Dibbles1 .Was a new tyre really necessary.
"Tyre punctures maybe repairable if the tyre has been punctured by something small like a nail or a screw, and not something large like a piece of broken glass or running into a kerb or pothole. If the puncture has happened in the central area of the tread, and not near the edges or in the sidewall the tyre maybe repairable and if the tyre has not been driven on when flat as this causes the sidewalls of the tyre to be weakened making a repair unsafe."
That's just my Scottish side showing.
I know you would be extra careful with regard to safety.
 
Dibbles1 said:
:) Nah, thanks though @izzzi :happy: It had broken down the inside of the side wall by the time we managed to stop safely somewhere. Sort of cracked inside all the way round, leaving a line all round on the outer tyre wall?
The screw had caused the puncture but, I think because I have a heavy 135kg wheelchair right above it in back, next to 40kg Malamute in his cage :eek: it had gone down rather quickly. So had broken down the inside of the side wall.
Not bad enough that it was dangerous to drive to tyre centre. Which was where the RAC man took us after gingerly pumping it back up again. But too far gone to repair unfortunately.
I know what you mean though, we had a couple repairs a few years ago on our old car, where we caught it in time.
The hub was very nervous and cautious of the RAC man pumping too much air in to a normal 35psi pressure, worried it might go, with the chap's face so close. Kept telling him not to risk his safety on our account. Love that man! :headphone:
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@Dibbles1 , I thought it would be worse than just the dam nail. Well done RAC:)
 
Dibbles1 said:
He was fab. So were the chaps in the tyre centre. x :happy:
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GEM were exceptional for me on a trip back to Wales. (Not a moan about my hubby and tyres this time!)

Had to go back to Wales as I had lost my bank card... I literally had £50 cash on me for petrol and toll bridge.

1st puncture A34, three police cars apparently as it was the worst accident place on the A34..
GEM perfect, towed me and my poor girlie golden retriever in back of car to a safe place and replaced tyre with my spare. Told me it would be good as it was a full size proper one. Got on way again.

2nd puncture M4 Swansea, 4.45pm. No spare. GEM again came out, phoned up a garage and explained we would be there on closing time, no money, no credit card. Poor girlie still in back of car on the tow truck, again, and they fed me too!!

I phoned up a friend who went to my bungalow and read out my card details to the garage and they took it!!!

I actually purchased 4 new tyres that night and my whole journey that day took me 9 hours instead of the usual 4 and a bit. My dog always hated cars and that journey although I stopped to walk her must have been hell for her. Still brings tears to my eyes for that journey with her.

Well done GEM... Although it was a damned expensive trip for me....
 
catherinecherub said:
Has anyone watched the second part ?
We seem to have gone off topic.;)
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Sorry... My posting.. Allowed to stray-lol:)
No not yet, won't see it til Friday when we can stay up past 9pm. Hubby on earlies and we're zonked by 9pm!!
 
90% of The recipes on the BBC site for the "constant cravers" are carb-free!!! I shall be making most of them!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/collections/intermittent_dieting_recipes

They are called intermittent dieting recipes, and thre is a warning to only eat them a couple of times a week

Still, it is a step in the right direction.
 
For anyone thinking of watching this on iPlayer, it's only going to be on there for 7 days from transmission - meaning the first show only has 4 days left.

If you can't watch them in time, or indeed, if you want to watch any of these again after the 7 day period, you could consider downloading the programme to your laptop/tablet or phone. Doing that gives you 30 days to start watching it (from the date you download), but only 7 days from when you start watching any download.

Sorry if I'm stating the obvious, but there were some nice little nuggets in the programmes, for anyone interested.
 
Am I right to assume that none of the group members were diabetic. ( I know never assume )
 
izzzi said:
Am I right to assume that none of the group members were diabetic. ( I know never assume )
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From memory, nothing was stated. There was reference to the risk of diabetes with excess weight, but no reference to any participants being diabetic. I would doubt here would be any, as that would be a further variable in the research findings.

In the series Q&A, on the BBC website, the other evening Professor Jebb, the Nutritional Scientist, made reference to anyone with special requirements taking advice before emabarking on any diet. The Q&A session is here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/entries/2feae48b-70c2-40ed-8e81-af26581ac301 , along with some other links to resources,
 
izzzi said:
Am I right to assume that none of the group members were diabetic. ( I know never assume )
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That was one of the first things that entered my head. I'm assuming not because hopefully they would have had a much better handle on eating and what they were eating. I've stopped thinking about how anyone can eat 14 - 19 bowls of sushi at 150 calories a bowl, again, first thing I thought, how many calories in those bowls. That is a pretty serious eating problem.
I didn't really think that anyone who has ever considered what they were eating could even believe that a slice of that cake was only 150 calories (in my dreams LOL).
There were definitely some interesting bits, but I felt it was all a bit contrived, well of course it was, there was a selection process. If they had started with a random bunch of overweight people, they would definitely of had some diabetics and like me who answered the online questionnaire, didn't fit into one of their three categories.
 
graj0 said:
That was one of the first things that entered my head. I'm assuming not because hopefully they would have had a much better handle on eating and what they were eating. I've stopped thinking about how anyone can eat 14 - 19 bowls of sushi at 150 calories a bowl, again, first thing I thought, how many calories in those bowls. That is a pretty serious eating problem.
I didn't really think that anyone who has ever considered what they were eating could even believe that a slice of that cake was only 150 calories (in my dreams LOL).
There were definitely some interesting bits, but I felt it was all a bit contrived, well of course it was, there was a selection process. If they had started with a random bunch of overweight people, they would definitely of had some diabetics and like me who answered the online questionnaire, didn't fit into one of their three categories.
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Having done some background reading on this, they had a large number of applicants, and started with a shortlist of 200, then filtered further again, to find the 75 who featured in the programmes. Aside from other factors the participants were whose as they clearly fitted one of the three groups, not like myself whose test scores came out as heavily into two of the three groups.

I didn't think, for me, if I wanted to lose weight, it would necessarily give me a way forward, but I think there were some little nuggets of information through the programmes we can all take away; really simple things like eating more slowly, getting back on the wagon, and the impact of modest activity.

(How's the knee coming along @graj0?).
 
AndBreathe said:
(How's the knee coming along @graj0?).
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Going well and thanks for asking. Can now bend knee to 110 degrees, can almost do a complete revolution on the static bike at the gym. I have to continue strengthening the quads which I now realise is a group of 4 muscles (I think quad should have been a give away LOL). The surgeon is happy to do the other one but I'm thinking of delaying by 6 months so that my operated leg is stronger than it ever was and I can walk up stairs leading with the operated leg which is still pretty uncomfortable. It could give me time to improve the right leg more, now I know a bit more about what goes on and with advice from surgeon and physio.
 
I only saw the last episode.

While I found it contrived, I really felt for the participants.
Their love of food, enjoyment of eating, obvious suffering (constant hunger, etc.) were very clear.
As was their near desperation to lose weight.
And their fervent hope that this diet would work, and they would keep the weight off.

Sadly, I suspect that many, many of them will not maintain.

What came through clearly was that hormones, emotions and general body chemistry play a huge part in hunger. Hopefully that message will start to filter through to the mainstream. There will always be plonkers who judge, criticise and say things like 'just eat less!', but hopefully the programme has shown the more open minded of us, that it isn't always that simple.
 
graj0 said:
Going well and thanks for asking. Can now bend knee to 110 degrees, can almost do a complete revolution on the static bike at the gym. I have to continue strengthening the quads which I now realise is a group of 4 muscles (I think quad should have been a give away LOL). The surgeon is happy to do the other one but I'm thinking of delaying by 6 months so that my operated leg is stronger than it ever was and I can walk up stairs leading with the operated leg which is still pretty uncomfortable. It could give me time to improve the right leg more, now I know a bit more about what goes on and with advice from surgeon and physio.
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Gather from this you've had a knee replacement? Join the club! Had my first knee operation on 25th June and have just arranged for knee number two on 18th March. Personally, I found the operation really difficult, both physically and mentally.
 
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