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BTW @Christine_72 and any other Australians - Happy New Year (you're past midnight, aren't you?) We've got 40 minutes (and 2 bottles of champers) to go!

Hehe I get corrected by my friend for pronouncing it the English way (he's American). I asked him what where does he get his kicks and he said "Route 66"...and pronounced it the English way :-D

I haven't noticed anyone saying that exercise isn't part of CICO, but I've seen (and said) that exercise isn't necessary for weight loss. It's hard to get the context of what you're saying when you're talking about a totally different thread though.

@lemurcat12 I just want to say, your timing is impeccable ;-)

There are so many different vegetables, and so many different ways to prepare/cook them, that it's difficult to see what you don't like about any of them. What have you tried, how was it cooked, and what didn't you like about it?

If people ask about losing weight, the answer is always calorie deficit. Unless they tell you, you have no way of knowing what other people's goals are, so there's little point comparing your way of getting to your goal to their way of getting to theirs.

According to wikipedia they don't contain meat or muscle, so I'd log it as ox tail.

Not run, but they do walk! https://youtu.be/eZabqakBJEM

Sometime in the 90s, I made a resolution to give up giving up things for New Year. It's the only one I've stuck to ;-)

* Don't add banana * Add avocado Sorry, couldn't resist! I just lob whatever is around into my smoothies, along with spinach and water. When I first got my Vitamix I tried different recipes that I found on the web (Pinterest has a gazillion of 'em!), but that made a simple task more convoluted so yeah, now I just chuck in…

I had one in the 80s (they were compulsory wedding gifts around that time!) and seem to remember using it a lot for stew and chilli in the winter, not so much in the summer. I wouldn't bother getting a small one though, just batch cook and freeze in portions. ETA: Now I think of it, I did use it in summer - for boiling…

UK drinking ages: At 18 you can buy your own alcohol and drink it in a pub/bar. At 16 you can drink beer, wine or cider that an over 18 has bought for you in a restaurant, as long as you're having a meal there. At 5 you can drink alcohol at home (legally!) Cider in the UK always contains alcohol, I think US call it hard…

I used to get confused when US telly programmes (yes, that's how we spell 'programs') talked of people being pissed. Here, pissed means drunk. Pissed off is the UK phrase equivalent to US pissed. And if any of that gets kittened out, it's the p word for urine.

So many ways of saying "vomit"! I'm not sure how many of these are east London centric but I'll try and list: Vomit - If your dog/cat does it, or if you're talking to someone medical. Technicolour yawn - If it's one of those unexpected projectile ones. Pavement pizza - If you see the remains of it outside. Upchucking,…

Thanks for the explanation! My school had lower sixth, upper sixth and secretarial sixth. Had I been better at maths I would have asked why we only had 3 sixths ;-) That's another difference though, we have maths and US has math.

We have a University College Hospital http://www.uclh.nhs.uk/ourservices/ourhospitals/uch/pages/home.aspx

hehe thanks for confirming @AnnPT77!

My friend in NYC said that it's only cilantro when it's the leaves - the seeds are still called coriander. He's never cooked anything in his life though, so I don't know if he's correct!

I wouldn't eat them, but I keep them for those occasions when my gadgety stuff gets wet (phone falling into the sink for example). My Withings Go went into the washing machine just last week and the silica gel dried it out.

There's a button at the bottom of the diary page (on the web version, at least) that allows you to see a printable report, but obviously you're going to have to log your food first. I've got a magnetic sheet on the fridge that I put my meal ideas on, when I remember :-/…

We have colleges within universities, and colleges that are just colleges. The more I try to explain British English the more I'm realising how much stuff we just seem to 'know', without questioning why LOL!

Followed by shag (tobacco) whilst listening to shags (birds...of the feathered kind)?

When the world was black and white (I'm 3 years old in this pic), I wore a tunic to school.

Nursery School 2-4 Infant School 5 -7 Junior School 7 - 11 Secondary School 11 - 16 (I think the minimum leaving age has been raised since I went!) I think they're all called 'years' now - Year 1, Year 2 etc. We only called them 'years' at grammar school, and they only counted whilst we were at that school (they're carried…

Speaking of schools: In the US 'public schools' are what we in the UK call 'state-run schools'. Public schools here are fee-paying, and these days the term is interchangeable with private schools. We just call them posh schools ;-)

Heh the whole dinner vs lunch thing is a minefield, even within the UK! Northerners tend to have dinner as their midday meal, where us southern softies have lunch. To further complicate it, at school the midday meal is called dinner (served by Dinner Ladies), but as soon as we leave school and join the workforce we have…

Losing weight can help alleviate all those issues, and eating what she enjoys can help OP to achieve the calorie deficit needed to lose weight. OP is already struggling to stay on track, and there's no point in adding more food complications to her plan.

That's fine if it suits you, but it doesn't make what @kommodevaran said an oxymoron or mean that someone can't eat what they want.

Eating what you want isn't the same as eating as much of it as you want. You could fit those things into your allowance, if you...erm...make allowances for them.

Losing weight is 100% calorie deficit, no exercise required.