Fat club - Friday 20th - Health + Injury

Glenn

20/09/2002 at 08:12

Might as well do something useful.

Training has been a bit dodgy since I donated blood on Monday, but should be ok for the weekend. On a sudden urge I bought some liver last night, thought the iron would do me good. Well, to tell the truth, I went to Sainsbury's for wine and bought the liver on an impulse...

Sassie

20/09/2002 at 08:27

Is there a new Fat Club thread every day? Can anyone start it? Okay, okay, I'm a control freak, I think inside the box and I need to know the rules!

Glenn

20/09/2002 at 08:30

Sassie, yes there is a new thread everyday, and yes anyone can start it. There's usually only one thread for the weekend.

If you want to start it yourself you might have to get up early. One or two this week jumped into life in the very early hours.

If Fat Club members were any good with rules we wouldn't be fat, would we?

Ratcatcher

20/09/2002 at 08:30

Glenn, it is red wine that's such a rich source of iron, isn't it? Is the liver just to wash it down? :)

Val.

Glenn

20/09/2002 at 08:32

The liver just gave me an excuse to drink it. Any nutritional justification would be a bit iffy because it was white.

The Evil Pixie pirate

pirate

20/09/2002 at 08:57

SO you been following the wine thread then!!
Well So far so good but then it is only 9!
Yes Sassie f you can get in early enough you can start the thread (BTW weekends tend to start a bit later!)

Velociraptor

20/09/2002 at 09:05

You eat liver, Glenn? Respect! For me, the announcement in 1990 that liver maybe wasn't a good thing for pregnant women to eat after all came as icing on the bun in my oven. I've tried to get to like liver, but the taste reminds me of cat pee (yes - I HAVE - please don't ask).

Just rounding off my portable breakfast with a box of strawberries. The kids will be furious because they wanted me to use them to make Nigella's strawberry ice cream. Sainsbury expedition tonight so can always buy more...

The Evil Pixie pirate

pirate

20/09/2002 at 09:11

Strewberries .. yum yum!
Actually I could quiet go for a bowl of strewberries right now! Or grapes!

Michelle

20/09/2002 at 09:16

Morning all,
Well the day has started off the same as usual, with the Mr. climbing over the garden fence to retrieve one of the nutty boys.. again, the nutty boys are now under house-arrest and they are protesting very, very, loudly! Anyway, was very good yesterday.. halo re-aligned! After my 10 mile run..! (still cannot believe I ran that far..!!!).. I had pasta for dinner and then went out with a mate to the pub.. only drank mineral water with lime..!! I'm turning into a saint!!! Anyway, it will all go rapidly downhill from tomorrow when my holiday begins and me and the Mr plan to start as we mean to go on.. with a champagne breakfast!! Sassie - read your thread yesterday about your poodle and getting another pup.. ooh lovely! Still no joy with the Mr about the getting the deaf white kitten.. but maybe I can work my magic on him over the holiday..!!! By the way, we call one of the nutty boys Sassie! (real name = Scorcese - obviously already named when we got him!!!). Anyway.. don't know whether to go out for a slow jog or to go the gym this morning...seem incapable of making any decisions (must be lack of food!!). Have a good day everyone.
Michelle x

Velociraptor

20/09/2002 at 09:30

Well done, Michelle. Ten miles - yahoo! And no lemon meringue ice cream afterwards. You're a star.

I ate rubbish almost all day yesterday, but probably run enough to get away with the occasional day of eating rubbish. It was my own fault - got trapped in a car with a bag of toffees during rush hour, and both the rush-hour car journey and the presence of a bag of toffees were self-inflicted. No problem running up the hills afterwards. My legs must have been stuffed with glycogen.

When my little sister was a toddler we called her Sassie. When "our" Sassie came online I wondered if she was baby sis but now know different.

Pixie, the strawberries weren't that brilliant despite supposedly being British rather than imported. Could have done with a shake of sugar or a couple of scoops of ice-cream.

sfh legs

20/09/2002 at 09:32

Vrap

ref tasting Pee

you must have missed that the prof dips his index finger and then licks his middle finger. don't tell us you were the poor student who verified the sugar content, and fell for that one.!!!

No wonder you want to rip flesh etc.....

cheers

The Evil Pixie pirate

pirate

20/09/2002 at 09:38

V-rap can't you have both sugar and ice-cream? Or a merangue with fromage frais? WIth ice-cream and that chocolate sauce that goes hard when cold (used to be called ice magic)?
Yum!
Ok I had better have a nice cup of tea now!

Velociraptor

20/09/2002 at 10:19

Even a cup of tea isn't safe in this bloody place.

A few months ago I started a fashion for drinking hippy fruit teas and the receptionists and I brought in a selection. Then Lay-Zee-Boy started walloping through them so someone suggested that he might like to consider making a contribution. He obligingly brought in an unlabelled box of little bags of something that is green and smells like kippers and mown grass. Completely undrinkable. Presumably he only brought it because he and his wife Anna Recksia couldn't use it at home.

Today one of the receptionists who wasn't in on the game from the start has brought in a tub of Whittards instant fruit-flavoured tea-like granules. Which is very kind, but she's missed the agenda a little, and the stuff tastes like the syrup from a tin of strawberries. Not unpleasant, but seriously tooth-rotting.

Ah, well, water is good for me.

The Evil Pixie pirate

pirate

20/09/2002 at 10:31

I have a draw full of herbal tea bags too!
The London tea company have some nice ones.

BTW question for all ... (especially those who are now skinny (v-rap))having got a nice collection of maps due to baby and weight... is there anything we can do to help reduce these maps or even get rid of them or do they go once we gain skinny status again?

Highlandmalted

20/09/2002 at 10:51

I must be the only skinny bloke in the world with stretch marks!!! I think rubbing moisturising cream into them is meant to reduce them but not make them disappear. As I am a bloke I've never been near the stuff so I don't know.

Highlandmalted

20/09/2002 at 10:55

Started the day very very very badly. It is two years to the day since I met my fiancee and one year to the day since I surprised her with a trip to Venice and proposed to her. So, to celebrate I surprised her again (on a slightly smaller scale due to saving up for a wedding) with a lovely breakfast. So far we have had a bottle of champagne, strawberries, croissants spread with loads of nutella and a maple syrup and pecan nut danish. I think I'll go for a 26.2 miler this afternoon to burn that off (or perhaps I'll just lie on the couch and watch my belly expand)

Glenn

20/09/2002 at 10:55

Moisturising cream? I'd have to shave first.

You probably didn't want to know that.

Oh, Gordon, I do use it on my face in winter - protects from the cold, you know.

Highlandmalted

20/09/2002 at 11:06

I'm a Scotsman loving in London... it doesn't get cold (and I've got greasy skin so it never gets chapped)

Velociraptor

20/09/2002 at 11:20

Gordon, when you said the day had started very very very badly I had to skip to the end of your post to make sure the lady hadn't done a runner. Congratulations on you anniversary, enjoy your celebrations, and a bit of fat is good for skin elasticity so you might even have improved your stretch marks.

EP, if I had the answer to the geographical tum problem I'd be on it by now! If I didn't work my abs, my belly would look like a prune - something to do with having lots of babies and putting on at least 4 stone each time (almost 5 with the last one). Putting creams and things on doesn't help; cosmetic surgery might, but then you get left with a scar like an ear-to-ear grin across your tum and another around your bellybutton. And I have only once managed to secure an NHS abdominoplasty for a patient (who had had two sets of twins and four caesarean sections in her reproductive career) so for most of us it would be money better spent on nice food and running shoes.

The Evil Pixie pirate

pirate

20/09/2002 at 12:09

So are you saying I will always have my map then?
Oh well such is life!