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ps, if I were to go back into this area again I would love to try and start up a sign language programme for older people in care. The hearing is one of the first things to go, so even people in their mid sixties will have noticeably poorer hearing (sometimes). So it was hardly an exaggeration to say that every resident…

I worked in a nursing home last year. I had fancied doing nursing but in Ireland it's really hard because they aren't hiring any nurses and the ones they are training seem to be recruited en masse by hospitals in England. I can't emigrate now because I have a family. Anyway, I did a year long course called healthcare…

tapas, albóndigas, papas bravas, berenjena y pimientos or veg korma washed down with a large bottle of COBRA. slurp burp.

Even though I go for brown rice, brown pasta and brown bread, I'd still try not to eat tooo much of them. Sweet potato has a lower GI than ordinary potato (and imo you'd expect it to be the other way around). Porridge would be good carbs I guess, and oat bran. I make my own 'bread' out of oat bran. Now I am not going to…

I wouldn't do it!!! When I was 17/18 I had a part time job in McDonalds and I put on about a stone in a year. And it wasn't as though I really loved McDonald's food. It was just THERE. They weren't exactly giving it away to me either. You had to earn points per hours worked but when you went on your break you'd always have…

I can cook for EUROPE and I know how to make healthy food taste delicious but I can NOT cook an omlette. Too messy. I can cook a dukan oat bran muffin though (oat bran, egg, skimmed milk). You can add chopped up cherry tomatoes or spinach to them. I wouldn't exaggerate and say that they were nice exactly but they are low…

wrt deducting the fibre, my mum used to use a very old weight watchers formula and if she were calculating the points in say a bowl of all bran, she would calculate it like this, say 140 cals = 2 points + .2 sat fat = 2.05 but then, she'd take the grams of fibre in it and divide by four and subtract it!!! OBVIOUSLY this is…

I don't like the system at all. I'm 5'1'' as well and I've always thought it was harder on small people!! Maybe that is a forcefield of denial there! But, it makes no allowances for good muscle tone, strong bones or porous bones, weight distribution........ A bmi can't tell you all you need to know IMO. Waist measurement…

I never seem to lose any weight, but my shape and my measurements and my muscle:fat ratio are constantly changing. Have you measured yourself as well? I tend to go by that now, as I could watch every morsel and work out 6 nights a week and my weight just NEVER changes...... (sorry that is not very motivational. but at the…

That's a good idea to use a few dates. They are so unbearably sweet when you eat them neat. What on earth is blue agave?

I know what you mean. I have been making some dukan bran muffins (although I'm not on the diet itself). They are very tasteless and I am thinking about adding some splenda and lemon essence,,, BUT i really don't want to develop an aspartame habit, as I may not be as thin as I'd like to be but I do feel healthy. Don't…

I can tell!!!! can't put my finger on how i can tell but i'm picking up on some subliminal cues.

I am Irish. I had thought this was a UK site. I look forward to seeing your pie chart :-) ;-)

level one is 27 minutes so did you do two levels back to back? not sure how you got 34 minutes out of level one!? I have on occasion done level two followed by level one. Jillian's voice saying "i want you to feel like you're going to die" was ringing loudly in my ears that night. I felt like I'd had a really good work out.

@tigerhoos, yeah i think you've raised a really interesting point. Our bodies haven't evolved to keep up with the reality. Our bodies are designed for us having to hunt and gather and fish and do a lot of hardwork. And in our lives today, we are constantly temped by foods that we can just easily buy, no energy needs to be…

I'm 41 and in Ireland. When I was a teenager there were no fat teenagers. May one per school. And back then, fat was two dress sizes bigger than your friends! Now, it seems to me that young people (I sound grumpy typing that) will all drink lucozade and coke all day long. The 'older' people seem to drink cups of tea/coffee…

Absolutely, it's easy for women to get what it is that men actually want, a no strings shag. So that doesn't make women lucky! It's very difficult to get a man who is good company to want to stick around. Any good humoured man who is reasonably good company and not a gargoyle could get a girlfriend clicking his fingers, so…

It gets easier. I left my children's father 5 years ago, and I know a lot of people are probably shocked that you can do something so "selfish" when you have a child. And tbh, I struggled with it for a long time too, I felt I'd made my bed and had to lie in it etc... But just like you, I could recognise that we brought out…

Yeah I really hate it! but tbh I hate it less than i used to hate it when I was in a really awful relationship. And even friends of mine with half decent husbands hate it too. At least nobody asks me 'did you get a valentiine?'. Obviously it's just taken as red that no i did not. that's probably worse than having people…

what are you eating that's so low in calories/points? i only get 1200 cals, 18 points and tbh, I could easily get to 15 points before i've thought about dinner, and that is eating healthily. like allbran & two teas 3 points banana and mid morning coffee 1.5 cup of soup, 1.5 poinhts, 2 dukan buns 1.3 each, a pair, .4 get…