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Kerry musician Seamus Begley

If you want to lose weight then you need a calorie deficit. I.e. more going out than is coming in. Intermittent fasting, keto, etc etc are just ways of achieving that. The best one is the one you are going to enjoy and therefore be able to stick to.

https://youtu.be/66hWntvp0_4
Not really that simple. We can't equate human nutrition to shovelling coal into a steam boiler.

ain't watching all that lol. Fact of the matter is if you aren't burning more than you consume then you won't lose weight.

If it's working for you keep 'er lit, I'm not sure how long you'll sustain it beyond a few months though.

If you want to lose weight then you need a calorie deficit. I.e. more going out than is coming in. Intermittent fasting, keto, etc etc are just ways of achieving that. The best one is the one you are going to enjoy and therefore be able to stick to.

https://youtu.be/66hWntvp0_4
Not really that simple. We can't equate human nutrition to shovelling coal into a steam boiler.

[replacement is in the post.]

Could the cold temperatures  affect the handbrake?

Car seems sluggish this morning . Just wasn't able to get much  power when  accelerating . Thought it was just the cold  temperatures and not having done much driving over weekend

Drove it at lunchtime and the handbrake doesn't have the same  feel to it . It's lifting up , and  The car's not rolling forward or anything , but  I can't help thinking the freezing temperatures last night has  messed with it somehow ?

PS. I left handbrake up overnight. Might that be the problem?

One of your rear brake callipers is probably seized. You can take them off and free them sometimes but replacement is in the post.

That's very good  of you 

Nothing  to do with the cold temperatures then, you think?

😅 Not really. They can fail in the summer as well. Is one of your wheels hotter than the other after a decent drive. That will be the faulty one. Unless they are both foobarred but normally one goes first.

+1 on that but the city boys are better doing something

Could the cold temperatures  affect the handbrake?

Car seems sluggish this morning . Just wasn't able to get much  power when  accelerating . Thought it was just the cold  temperatures and not having done much driving over weekend

Drove it at lunchtime and the handbrake doesn't have the same  feel to it . It's lifting up , and  The car's not rolling forward or anything , but  I can't help thinking the freezing temperatures last night has  messed with it somehow ?

PS. I left handbrake up overnight. Might that be the problem?

One of your rear brake callipers is probably seized. You can take them off and free them sometimes but replacement is in the post.

Have you looked for any 2nd opinions or looked into alternatives. I certainly don't want to play down what you've had to go through but this is a drastic move and surely a last resort. Check out Ken D Berry MD on YouTube as a starting point. I listen to a lot of health podcasts and videos and I remember more than a few people who have resolved their Chron's and ulcerative colitis using strict elimination diet. Can't remember exact episodes but it might be an option. Best of luck anyway.

Not necessarily true, I had bad asthma all my life, I. Recent yrs considerably worse, I look back and wonder how I could do sports, at all when I was younger, got a good enough lifestyle, barely drink, gym 3/4 times a week, but my weakness in my chest means I need to see a gp more often than most. It's impossible to get a appointment unless you half dying. 2nd time I got Covid I was off work 3, 1/2 months I was so unwell. Some people it's not lifestyle, just born with a bad weakness.

It plays a part yes but our standard diets have provoked an auto immune/ allergic explosion that exacerbates these chronic issues. Ever looked into an elimination diet to see how your asthma reacted. Some of these things can be environmental of course but diet is certainly a good place to start in terms of low hanging fruit.
The system is log jammed with an avoidable chronically diseased population, so when you need acute care it can't be had in any effective way.

Yes and it's mostly white chocolate that's doing the damage. White chocolate mice are delicious and sometimes I eat about 800 of them in one sitting and end up in ENT with a range of complications.

Santa will bring you one of these, maybe you've already got one!
https://amzn.eu/d/2jV9nGi

[people here smoke, eat and drink too much]

MR2 hit on it earlier - people here smoke, eat and drink too much and expect the healthcare system to step in and look after them free of charge. Lifestyle illnesses are costing billions each year. If there was a charge at point of use people might look after themselves a bit better. The number of obese people on the streets is wild.

That isn't a problem restricted to Nordieland though, it's the case in pretty much the whole of the developed world and even in parts of the developing world.

Thats what they say, it's all our fault yet the big food corporations employ scientists to make their crap hyperpalitable, moreish, addictable. All they have to do is add some vitamins and whole grains and it's a "healthy alternative". The saturated/polyunsaturated fat thing, food pyramid, it's mostly horse shit. "Everything is fine in moderation" is a bit like saying a wee drop of heroin now and again is grand. They make all this muck addictive, multi pack it, supersize it, bogof it, market it and then blame us for over consuming and getting sick.
https://youtu.be/TUADs-CK7vI
Watch this documentary, I'd be interested to hear peoples thoughts.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6S16LR0Ypxu8Xgf8tp0Um3?si=Z40miR9sQGCQN9jmHNnduw
Forgot the link

This is an interesting discussion which gets into some of the reasons why the current system is no longer fit for purpose. It's way more than just political decision making.

Would be interested to hear what big salary job he has lined up as an alternative. Sorry for generalising but I find the available labour market pretty flaky these days.

Historian Dr Eamon Phoenix.

Very sad, only 69. A gentleman.

To be fair the labour government have made a balls of the NHS during their watch also, unfortunately its not sustainable in its current state, if you want a good NHS then it has to be funded somewhere? Yes you guessed it more tax to pay for it, if you are willing, on a normal wage, to pay over 40% plus all the other taxes we pay then it might make a small dent in what's required.

You can throw as much money as you like at it, may as well throw it in a hole. Until we get to a point where we start treating the patient and not the disease it will be as fcuked as ever. Even doctors are sick of it. In 10 years time there won't be enough clinicians to dole out the current protocols and pills.

For sure people are at fault in blocking the system with self inflected health problems (as he eats a twix with a cuppa)

Unfortunately there are some illnesses that are not because of a bad diet/lifestyle and some of the fittest people I know have died, others were at deaths door because of it, those that were lucky are lucky because they got screened early and were fit enough to be operated on quickly, they were strong in their recovery also..

We still need something that can be affordable (for nothing) that will help the likes of the cancer screenings/treatments and medications to live longer

I've no answer to this btw , we can only look after ourselves health wise as best we can and hope everyone will do the same

That's not what I mean exactly, how modern medicine including lifestyle advice is practiced is directed by drugs and medical equipment companies and captured science. Good health is not good for the bottom line. It's about keeping people just sick enough to keep it all going. To make worse the global economy is underpinned by it also so there probably is no answer at this stage. We're just screwed