The Retirement Thread

[SpokeyDokey]

Yes, as someone who has struggled with poor eating habits for as long as I can remember I agree in some circumstances. I know exactly what and how much I should be eating, but when the urge to binge comes on, it’s like drug addiction

Yes, it is hard work struggling with food addiction, or more usually & specifically, carb' addiction.

I went through a massive over-eating phase nearly 10 years ago when I was mis-diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease.

I ballooned by 3 stone!

Took me a while to get it off too & I eat far more sensibly these days by steering clear of the usual culprits.

I don't eat cereals, potatoes, cake, biscuits, milk chocolate, sweets or bread, except in small quantities and then only in very rare circumstances. All of these are very addictive and pile on the pounds.

I confess to sometimes having terrible cravings like wanting maybe 8 weetabix drenched in full fat milk and laced with sugar! Honestly, I did this sort of thing in my depressive eating phase!

 

[Mo1959]

Yes, it is hard work struggling with food addiction, or more usually & specifically, carb' addiction.

I went through a massive over-eating phase nearly 10 years ago when I was mis-diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease.

I ballooned by 3 stone!

Took me a while to get it off too & I eat far more sensibly these days by steering clear of the usual culprits.

I don't eat cereals, potatoes, cake, biscuits, milk chocolate, sweets or bread, except in small quantities and then only in very rare circumstances. All of these are very addictive and pile on the pounds.

I confess to sometimes having terrible cravings like wanting maybe 8 weetabix drenched in full fat milk and laced with sugar! Honestly, I did this sort of thing in my depressive eating phase!

I have even taken something back out of the bin and eaten it I’ve been anything between almost anorexic at one point years ago to really quite overweight for periods. All the yo-yo dieting and bingeing have nearly destroyed my metabolism I think. I find it really difficult to drop weight now.

 

[numbnuts]

I'm going to make a cake, but after reading the last few post........Oh to hell with it, you only live once
wonder if you have cake in heaven ?.....google ........yes they do "angel cake"

 

[screenman]

Complex set of circumstances in many cases - some within their control and some not so much.

I understand but the majority just lack motivation and self discipline, it does vary as you move around the country.

 

[screenman]

Shift work and grabbing snacks when they don’t have time to sit down and eat something healthy doesn’t help.

I think this is an excuse, plenty of nurses are not overweight, I think it is more about social acceptance of the overweight body. 2 or 3 Stone overweight is the norm now I guess.

 

[welsh dragon]

As the weather has made such a dramatic change overnight, we are having braised beef today, done in the slow cooker.

It's really breezy here now.

 

[screenman]

As the weather has made such a dramatic change overnight, we are having braised beef today, done in the slow cooker.

It's really breezy here now.

I have not tried the slow cooker yet; it is something I want to try a bit later in the year, but I am still trying to master toast at the moment.

 

[Drago]

I don't eat cereals, potatoes, cake, biscuits, milk chocolate, sweets or bread, except in small quantities and then only in very rare circumstances.

Only a few pounds of each. And only ever when eating!

 

[pawl]

We have had a shower of rain here.

Get that hole in the roof repaired.

 

[Drago]

Want some rain here to refill my butt.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Windy and damp here now. Managed a short mtb loop through the Pentlands and the Penicuik Estate before it fully set in.

 

[pawl]

Opposite here, not jealous of the people I am surrounded by, currently in the a waiting room in Lincoln Hospital surrounded by people who are not looking after themselves, unwashed, obese and old before their time, why do they do that to themselves.

Wondered where everyone was this morning .

Only joking honest

 

[pawl]

Want some rain here to refill my butt.

Rectal washouts this way.

 

[welsh dragon]

My granddaughter passed her degree with a 2.1. She has just received an offer from Aber based on her results to do a masters degree I am a very proud gran.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

My granddaughter passed her degree with a 2.1. She has just received an offer from Aber based on her results to do a masters degree I am a very proud gran.

Well done your GD!