wobblyweevil

Okapi42, where in Norn Iron are you? I moved back to England last year after being stationed over there for a few years and I miss it like mad. I lived out in the Dromara hills originally, then moved to Lisburn. If I win the lottery I'm moving to somewhere between Castlewellan and Newcastle! I'm in West Yorkshire and have…

Very very very occasionally I'll get on without a hat and sit on them in the field for a minute or two, just to give them a cuddle and have an 'aaaaah' moment - but it has to be the right sort of day and they have to be relaxed for me to even contemplate it. No 'riding' though - did it once and felt horribly vulnerable…

Keep on enjoying life. Run a 10k, and another, and maybe a half marathon. Get below 9 stone and stay there. Go to plenty of horse events. Grow some of my own food. That'll do!

Prevention is better than cure - I make sure I take milk thistle & plenty of water either before bed or first thing, and I eat when hungry but try to keep it to stuff that will help - banana, avocado, eggs are favourites but I might have a 9bar, eat natural or nakd bar as well, keeping on with the water. Good, healthy food…

Yep, I was on exante diet food replacement with occasional ketogenic meals for the first 3 months to make a big dent in my weight. I transitioned gradually to more and more healthy foods and fewer replacements, maintained for a while on just food, and am now back on the weight loss wagon with just food. 16lb to go so it's…

Just eating real food - nothing processed - which echoes the paleo advice above. My favourite supper is 1/3 aubergine (eggplant), 1 courgette (zucchini), 4 cherry tomatoes, 1/4 onion, several cloves of garlic, 1 bell pepper. Chop it all up, throw it on to a baking tray that you've prepared with olive oil, into the oven at…

Rice - that way it's easier to just cook/serve yourself/eat a spoonful, if you want a taste or a little something to mop up curry juice.