The 500 calorie deficit myth

[Lorna B.]

This lady writes well about this http://charlotteord.blogspot.co.uk/2...icit-myth.html

If a technique/measurement just doesn't work, why would you keep on doing the same expecting it to work the next time?

This post looks interesting too http://charlotteord.blogspot.co.uk/2...lly-means.html actually I think that I will go & have a good look around her blog, cheers my dears!

[Lorna B.]

tnx dear

[Lotti D.]

Very interesting, thanks rosemary

[Hannelore N.]

Mmmmhhh..... Interesting. Thank you, Rosemary!

Fortunately the way I eat and drink now does not involve any calorie counting. If I had to do that I think I would fail. All that counting would drive me around the bend.

[Hannelore N.]

Which is probably why it fails for everybody sooner or later, real life gets in the way of being obsessive about the numbers relating to food, (unless you are obsessive/compulsive) and any way there are far more interesting things to be obsessive/compulsive about that will last longer than the next meal - like what can you do with fabric & threads? :wink:

[Hannelore N.]

I guess, Rosemary, that's why I will never be a world-famous quilter - not obsessive/compulsive enough.

Working with a lot of OCD teenagers is enough for me. One of them tells me every time I'm in a lesson with him exactly how many seconds I'm early or late, and insists to sharpening my pencil before we start working.

[Hannelore N.]

At least getting your pencil sharpened is useful. Wouldn't necessarily work for me I like to use propelling pencils that don't need sharpening :wink: , That said the pencils at school are always 'as blunt as a stick of rhubarb' as my class 4 primary school teacher described them. :roll:

[Hannelore N.]

Blunt pencils???? Not for this girl, Rosemary! And it has nothing to do with OCD.

A couple of years ago my boys both asked what I wanted for my birthday. I asked for (and got) an electric can opener and an electric pencil sharpener. Nothing more annoying than struggling with a can of baked beans when hungry, or not being able to draw a decent line when doing geometry in Maths. :wink:

[Hannelore N.]

The best description ever of trying to open a tin without a tin opener has to be in 'Three Men in a Boat' by J K Jerome.....

and like I say, I use propelling pencils - no need for pencil sharpeners of any kind 8)

[Hannelore N.]

Rosemary, most of the kids I work with put too much pressure on whatever they are writing with. The leads in propelling pencils always break and I would end up with some very frustrated students.

[Hannelore N.]

Too true, it takes practice to use a light touch with anything, and I guess that your bunch of students would need more parctise than most.

[wendy w.]

Bet all her pencils are an inch long now :wink:

[Hannelore N.]

Wendy, I learned to push the pencils in just long enough to get them sharp but not watch them vanish into the little machine.

Anyway, sharp and short pencils are not bad. They fit nicely into the smallest of bags or pockets.

[Lotti D.]

I admit it, I'm a pencil thief! Whenever I go to ikea one of those fab little pencils always ends up in my pocket! (Sometimes one in my purse as well :shock: )

[Hannelore N.]

Now we know who is responsible for the drop in IKEA's profits.

'Whispering'....... I think I have a couple of IKEA pencils somewhere too. And their really large totes (bought, not liberated) are perfect for transporting several quilts at once.