stefjc Member

Oh dear! Richie, you are in a very dangerous place. Please do NOT train people without insurance and public liability - which you won't get easily without a certificate. PLEASE do not dismiss the idea of this. And Ophidion, there is lots of IF science. Richie has given none of it credence, as he states he prefers his own…

Wot, no irony or sarcasm, Richie? Look, this is silly. We disagree. I have a different understanding than you do. I consider your opinion to be lacking in science and experience. You have lost a lot of weight and you must feel like the bee knees, and rightly so, you loss has been amazing. But please. do try to be less…

Oooh Debbie. I went out to knock my bread back and you beat me to it! Richie does 5:2 (OK 4:3), you read it here first. My job is done. Bye. Sorry to everyone, I stooped, felt a little bit childish :)

No Richie I am not trolling. I despair of you ever understanding that you have a limited viewpoint and a general misunderstanding. Life is not as simple as you choose to state it. The human body is not as simple either. You cannot reduce life to a computer code of 'is' or 'is not'. You have the basics but not the details.…

And if you truly believe that you have only shown that you lack a lot of information and have a very poor understanding of physiology. Nice dismissal but your grammar still undermines your point!

What? Do you really expect a meaningful answer? In short I cannot know as I have no baseline data, no bodpod measure etc etc. 5:2 numbers don't go like that, so that is an invalid assumption for a start. The question is meaningless and unanswerable without a science lab, a meaningful cohort etc.

Again, your opinion. Where is your evidence? Ignoring the appalling grammar. You don't know me or many other posters here. So how do you know you all disagree with 'it'? You are being silly, provocative but silly. [/quote]

Erm.... I think I did try to explain, and said here why I won't be doing it again. It is a pointless task as you don't read or listen. In fact you deride any science you haven't read - or consider to be too old. Which made me smile for so very many reasons. You also assigned to me a short list of misconceptions, none of…

Oh, and you really do need to read up on psychology and it effects on behaviour. The Health Behaviour Model, the Transactional Model and many others would help explain how a belief in something makes it more effective - like a placebo. Also how intermittent restriction - the basis of ALL IF diets - is less onerous for…

Yes Richie. Telling someone that if they disagree with you there must be something wrong with them (what was it, oh yes, aimed at everyone....) - not in anyway belittling. And I am just one poster who does know about the other health benefits, as do other posters who have taken you to task for your poor attitude before.…

Yes, Richie. As usual I took care to read what you said. I believe what you say EXCEPT that 5:2 is useless. It is one way to achieve calorie deficit and achieve fat loss. Just one. One of many. That it is one you personally choose to disregard does not make it useless. I would point you toward some of the research studies,…

It never crosses your mind you may be in error, does it Richie? Your last statement is wrong on very many levels. Others, beside myself, have tried to discuss this with you, to no avail. You continue to be rude, self assured but wrong!

I'd agree with most of what everyone else has said. Losing early on in a diet, especially if you are new to it, can be fast. And you can get all hung up on it, seeing the numbers go down, restricting everything. But it will get harder as your appetite adapts and your initial easier success wears off. Take all of the advice…

*Bites tongue. Moves on*

That's one thing I don't have to count.... I am anaemic, pernicious anaemia, so I could bathe in the stuff and my body wouldn't absorb any of it! I do believe that many foods and counters do not include iron. A quick google might set your mind at rest.

It is just a different way of getting to a calorie deficit. It just has a different restriction pattern, that's all. It is easier for some and sound ridiculous to others, as do most diets :) Also, you have so little to lose now, any way you choose will be more difficult than it might have been before. You can't really…

You're missing the point, Ritchie. Other threads on this have discussed it much more than this one. There is some really fascinating information in the programmes. Snippets of historical information that are quite simply amazing in their blatant stupidity. Yet taken on by governments the world over as truths. Breathtaking…

Absolutely, Cora. If you listen and ignore the ineffectual presenter the information is quite fascinating. Some of it I have known for ages but each episode brings up something new or a perspective I hadn't seen before. Much of it is dismissed because of what it appears to be... the title of the documentaries being a case…

Not quite what either of the documentaries is about - once you get past the weak presentation.

CBT it - retrain your thought process. Thank him for bringing such a valuable training aid into the house. Now you can see chocolate, knowing that you don't have to eat it and with his help you are winning. Mine does much the same, but tends not to produce the bag of minstrels on my Down Days. He does dole out 2 or 3 as a…

Ladies - you have voices, use them Creepy guy in the gym, regardless of whether he is or isn't a creep, open up your mouth and tell him you don't want to know. Groper in a public place? Swallow your fear and embarrassment and shout 'get your hands off me" and point at him. Keep protesting and pointing, he will run away.…

I'm guessing that many are too young ever to have been so poor that the water was heated once a week and everyone shared the same bath water (no one but the rich had showers then). I remember that, if we were lucky, dad would bathe first, deepest and hottest water for him, the working man. Then me and my sister, in…

Look, your breast tissue will extend into your arm pits, it can and will extend to cover all of the associated glands if you get fat enough - men, that is you too! Ladies, wear the right bra and it will all get gathered in and pointed vaguely forward. But it won't holiday itself round to your back. That jelly roll is fat,…

Loving the shower snobbery. Me? I am a filthy bath user. Long soaks, loads of bubbles and if the water changes colour, so what? I am pretty certain mankind survived for millennia before some bright spark invented the shower. Water holes, rivers and other waterways that included things like duck and fish poo were popular…

Plastic tubs are cheap... and you need only buy what you like. We do this at work - we have a kitty and I shop once a month. I buy spices in bulk too, we are quite organised :)

The thing I found enlightening about both series was the 'truths' that governments get behind that are nothing of the sort. I think this is where the non accountability bit comes in. We are told, 100% authoritatively that something is so... and it simply is not! In this case the 30 minutes a day 5 days a week exercise…

I have chickens. We hard boil eggs and they keep for at least a week - that's as long as they have ever lasted before getting eaten :) Eggs you buy in the shops are already 2 - 3 weeks old..... they really are well designed to stay fresh (think about their original job). And there is absolutely no difference between a…

MMMM! I will admit I fell asleep early on...and that the presenter is irritating... but the bit I remember made sense .... must watch the rest to see if/where it derailed itself :)

For 145kcals I can get a huge Americano and a biscotti, with 45kcals in change :-) Then again, I do hate adulterating a good cup of coffee. Tea too! Reading posts like these makes me realise that I have it quite easy as I don't have any sneaky calories maliciously hiding in anything I drink!

I'm lucky, the ASICS and Nike shops are opposite each other, and indoors :) My choices are the same as SadFaerie's. But I had fittings and gait analysis in both and went with the one that best fit with what I knew - I did the wet footprint test and really do know I have a fairly neutral gait. I bought both and think I…