[Nicola_Red]

The ladies of CM.net calendar??? Seems like the right thing to do.

That was touted as a serious idea back on the metalsludge forum. Never happened though.

[Latina]

The google banner ads are usually to do with the content on the page itself, as opposed to your cookies.

Char, Latina and Yuds have posted in the thread.

*runs away*

Well if this doesn't make me feel part of the forum again since my return, nothing will...

[a-moron]

Chrys will always have a soft spot for you Latina.
You and him with your weird clingfilm fetish.

He'll be regaling stories to his grandkids about you some day.
Either that or sitting about a nursing home with underwear constructed from the stuff, mumbling away about how fresh his balls are.

[Nicola_Red]

My colleague is doing Slimming World (his wife made him go) and is just going ON and ON about his weigh-ins and milk allowances and the like. I sit right opposite him so it's very difficult to escape, and he is the sort of person who doesn't read social cues well so my lack of responses are not deterring him. I don't want to make things awkward in the office by going "please just stop talking about diets", but I will have to soon at this rate. I find diet talk very oppressive and triggering, not to mention just dull.

[Latina]

I used to be an awful diet bore to my friends, and although I try really hard not to be I still worry I'm slipping into it sometimes. To some it must be on the same level as baby talk on Facebook is to me.

I am very careful to keep it off social networking though, and it's good you have a separate thread for it here (from what I remember).

[Nicola_Red]

We did. It slipped down the forum when everyone lost their impetus, but I thought keeping it all in one place was a great idea. I have no objection at all to people wanting to diet, I just don't wanna hear about it!

[MadTheEddos]

My diet is horrendous, absolutely terrible. I'm probably one of the very few people who would benefit from going on one.

[Nicola_Red]

I am very into fat acceptance, so I try not to comment on other people's diets. I'm interested in healthy eating, but years of failed diets and feeling social pressure to be a certain size have led to me having a terrible relationship with food and generally screwed-up eating habits, which are very difficult to repair. I just don't like getting involved in weight-loss talk cos for me personally, accepting my body as it is is far more important and psychologically healthy than trying to diet. Like I say, if others want to diet that's fine for them, I just don't like having to hear about it!

[Yudster]

Well, you'll have to suck it up a bit Nic, people will talk about what they want to talk about. I do agree it is helpful, especially if someone specifically wants to avoid it, to keep it in one place though. That thread went the way of most diets though didn't it? I'm not sure if that is ironic or not...

[Nicola_Red]

I know...that's what I'm trying to do. And yep, that thread did fall by the wayside quite quickly, even with intervention from a reincarnated Beadle Poke

[Tunster]

My colleague is doing Slimming World (his wife made him go) and is just going ON and ON about his weigh-ins and milk allowances and the like. I sit right opposite him so it's very difficult to escape, and he is the sort of person who doesn't read social cues well so my lack of responses are not deterring him. I don't want to make things awkward in the office by going "please just stop talking about diets", but I will have to soon at this rate. I find diet talk very oppressive and triggering, not to mention just dull.

I don't understand why the likes of "slimming world" etc exist. Weight control is easy. If you want to lose more weight, you do more excercise. If you don't exercise you'll stay at or put on more weight. If you want to eat more, you excercise more. I think I've covered it all! To try and reduce your consumption to reduce weight is horrible business. All that clearly annoys me and they're commiting daylight robbery as far as I'm concerned. Making dieting alone socially acceptable...? Blugh.

[neilt0]

Exercise does taff all for losing weight if you're still eating pies, Jaffa Cakes and drinking lager, which is why Chris, when he was getting fit with his previous two trainers, did not lose much weight. It's only with this new trainer who has put him on a strict diet that he's lost all the beef.

Remember Carrie on the treadmill running for ages and only expending enough calories for an olive?

"Give me an olive! Give me an olive!"

[Nicola_Red]

My colleague is doing Slimming World (his wife made him go) and is just going ON and ON about his weigh-ins and milk allowances and the like. I sit right opposite him so it's very difficult to escape, and he is the sort of person who doesn't read social cues well so my lack of responses are not deterring him. I don't want to make things awkward in the office by going "please just stop talking about diets", but I will have to soon at this rate. I find diet talk very oppressive and triggering, not to mention just dull.

I don't understand why the likes of "slimming world" etc exist. Weight control is easy. If you want to lose more weight, you do more excercise. If you don't exercise you'll stay at or put on more weight. If you want to eat more, you excercise more. I think I've covered it all! To try and reduce your consumption to reduce weight is horrible business. All that clearly annoys me and they're commiting daylight robbery as far as I'm concerned. Making dieting alone socially acceptable...? Blugh.

Very much agreed. It's a horrible business in that it teaches people not to trust their own hunger cues, to not eat what their body might need (don't forget there are nutrients in everything, and sometimes we need fat or whatever) and to attach moral value to food (SW even refers to certain foods as 'syns' - they say it's short for symmetry or somesuch bull but it clearly encourages people to see certain foods as sinful). And don't forget that industries like this rely on their particpants' failure - cos if diets worked, people wouldn't keep going back.

[The Deadly]

Just do what I've done and not eat and do loads of press ups and sit ups. Lost nearly 3st in 4 months.

[Tunster]

Exercise does taff all for losing weight if you're still eating pies, Jaffa Cakes and drinking lager, which is why Chris, when he was getting fit with his previous two trainers, did not lose much weight. It's only with this new trainer who has put him on a strict diet that he's lost all the beef.

Remember Carrie on the treadmill running for ages and only expending enough calories for an olive?

"Give me an olive! Give me an olive!"

LOL! I heard that on one of the podcasts yesterday. It's more than just losing a few calories. It's building up your body to point where it wants to burn off calories more quickly and you'll feel the same amount you eat now would almost be insufficient. It all goes down to what type of training and then tailoring your heartbeat to maximise the training.

The treadmill is crap anyway. Running on the road however, an awful lot of fun!

[R94N]

The treadmill is crap anyway. Running on the road however, an awful lot of fun!

Yes, I prefer being outside to being in a gym, unless you do weights in which case you don't have much choice.

[jocky85]

I used to like the gym treadmill because I could use their wifi & listen back to the golden hour. Might as well get out on the road now………

[slaphead1982]

"Long time lurker. First time poster". This should be the new title of the Newbies introduction thread. It would kill that line stone dead.

[a-moron]

"Long time lurker. First time poster". This should be the new title of the Newbies introduction thread. It would kill that line stone dead.

Awww. Who's a wee crabbity chops today?

[slaphead1982]

"Long time lurker. First time poster". This should be the new title of the Newbies introduction thread. It would kill that line stone dead.

Awww. Who's a wee crabbity chops today?

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This fella is.

[James H]

"Long time lurker. First time poster".

I was one of them once!

[Nicola_Red]

I think most of us were. I didn't ever write that though. I wrote something about Scott Mills that managed to get me into an argument about being offended on behalf of other people. Several straight forum members assumed I too was straight and therefore couldn't be offended by homophobia. Ah, memories.

[dimtimjim]

homophobia

Fear of Mortgages.

[Nicola_Red]

I definitely have that

[chrysostom]

Several straight forum members assumed I too was straight and therefore couldn't be offended by homophobia.

Sympathy vs. Empathy - very interesting, but I don't think it's possible to fully convince others (on the internet) of a plight using sympathy. Empathy always wins - mainly because people can't tell you to shut up