> apparently just not buying bread and cheese and eating effectively ex150-fruit-and-chips-and-milk seemed to cause my weight to drop off a cliff just like ex150ish itself always does.
Well if I didn't know better, I'd presume that somehow the bread & cheese are the parts that make this work?
Curious because it would have to be mediated by 2 different pathways, the 2 have almost nothing in common, which might be the reason they go so well together. That said, maybe it's the bread OR the cheese, if you haven't individually tested cutting those out.
I have a secret cunning plan where I reintroduce them one by one and watch what happens, but I don't think I have the discipline to actually do it so I didn't want to pre-announce it. Just between us it's ok though.
Aren't bread and cheese both pretty high in protein?
Pudding is the stuff you have after dinner, often it's sweet, sometimes it's actual puddings but it might be ice-cream. Also 'dessert' or 'sweet' or 'the sweet course'. As distinct from the main course, the starter, the fish, and the cheese course. Dinner is a complex, shifting concept. Oh and the soup of course. In the north where I'm from dinner is at mid-day, in the south where I live it's in the evening, except on Sundays when Sunday dinner is late mid-day. Oh and often there's bread and stuff but they're side-dishes so they don't fit in the big scheme. And port and coffee and cigars and various wines which may or may not be synchronised with courses. Usually no-one smokes until people have finished eating, but it's not an iron-clad rule, it depends when you toast the Queen (Or King these days I suppose. Christ I hate the future.). And you have to squeeze God in somewhere, although the more prestigious the institution the shorter the prayers, for reasons I won't go into. But some people will drink to the downfall of the system and to the glorious revolution that will sweep it all away. I don't know what they do about smoking. That's the basics, but obviously there are regional and class differences to be accounted for. I don't want to over-complicate things for my international audience!
I couldn't agree more, but we shouldn't leave out second breakfast, elevenses, afternoon tea, supper, massive drinking session, kebab, ill-advised whisky, cocoa and midnight snack. They're all important to the sort of healthy lifestyle I advocate here.
I'm born and bred South and dinner is midday in my book, not just a Northern thing. But I'm also of a certain age when we had dinner ladies at school. I don't really remember when the whole lunch thing started to come in (and dinner in the evening). It's mainly posh people and businesses that use the term down here. Us common people (even the youngsters) still call our 3 meals breakfast(morning), dinner(midday) and tea(evening).
Gosh really? I've never heard a southerner call the midday meal dinner. It must be more than a north/south thing. Where are you from? I did say it was complicated, but perhaps it's even more complicated than I thought...
So many people died in the Scone Wars. I thought we were past all that...
> apparently just not buying bread and cheese and eating effectively ex150-fruit-and-chips-and-milk seemed to cause my weight to drop off a cliff just like ex150ish itself always does.
Well if I didn't know better, I'd presume that somehow the bread & cheese are the parts that make this work?
Curious because it would have to be mediated by 2 different pathways, the 2 have almost nothing in common, which might be the reason they go so well together. That said, maybe it's the bread OR the cheese, if you haven't individually tested cutting those out.
I have a secret cunning plan where I reintroduce them one by one and watch what happens, but I don't think I have the discipline to actually do it so I didn't want to pre-announce it. Just between us it's ok though.
Aren't bread and cheese both pretty high in protein?
Well, bread isn't low, but not nearly as high as most cheeses. And milk is high in protein, depending on how much you drink of course.
> fruit for pudding
I'm sorry but which meal of the day is "pudding?" Is this like "tea time?" Gosh.
Pudding is the stuff you have after dinner, often it's sweet, sometimes it's actual puddings but it might be ice-cream. Also 'dessert' or 'sweet' or 'the sweet course'. As distinct from the main course, the starter, the fish, and the cheese course. Dinner is a complex, shifting concept. Oh and the soup of course. In the north where I'm from dinner is at mid-day, in the south where I live it's in the evening, except on Sundays when Sunday dinner is late mid-day. Oh and often there's bread and stuff but they're side-dishes so they don't fit in the big scheme. And port and coffee and cigars and various wines which may or may not be synchronised with courses. Usually no-one smokes until people have finished eating, but it's not an iron-clad rule, it depends when you toast the Queen (Or King these days I suppose. Christ I hate the future.). And you have to squeeze God in somewhere, although the more prestigious the institution the shorter the prayers, for reasons I won't go into. But some people will drink to the downfall of the system and to the glorious revolution that will sweep it all away. I don't know what they do about smoking. That's the basics, but obviously there are regional and class differences to be accounted for. I don't want to over-complicate things for my international audience!
Sometimes I wonder why the Empire fell. And then I am reminded that you are like this. Christ almighty.
People like to make fun of us because we simplified status to mean "bank balance" but I think this was objectively an improvement.
I could live with that! What gets measured gets improved. But it doesn't sound like much fun...
Pudding = dessert
FFS
Of course it should really be breakfast, dinner and tea as the three meals….
I couldn't agree more, but we shouldn't leave out second breakfast, elevenses, afternoon tea, supper, massive drinking session, kebab, ill-advised whisky, cocoa and midnight snack. They're all important to the sort of healthy lifestyle I advocate here.
I'm born and bred South and dinner is midday in my book, not just a Northern thing. But I'm also of a certain age when we had dinner ladies at school. I don't really remember when the whole lunch thing started to come in (and dinner in the evening). It's mainly posh people and businesses that use the term down here. Us common people (even the youngsters) still call our 3 meals breakfast(morning), dinner(midday) and tea(evening).
Gosh really? I've never heard a southerner call the midday meal dinner. It must be more than a north/south thing. Where are you from? I did say it was complicated, but perhaps it's even more complicated than I thought...
So many people died in the Scone Wars. I thought we were past all that...