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Eating large quantities of 90% chocolate is an impressive feat.
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Screwfix have £12 off a £50 online spend today, pretty good discount.
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I find preparing side salads and veg a bit tiresome when preparing multiple meals all through the week.
Having grown up with Korean food and banchan, I prepare or buy side dishes/vegetables to make meals more interesting and delicious.
Kimchi
Asian dressed slaw (no mayo, very little fat)
Picked radish
Korean seasoned spinachI also have a couple of squeeze sauce bottles with homemade gochujang dressing and sweet soy sauce for extra punchy flavour, while minimising the calories. A drizzle on top of a dish goes a long way and a lot less calories than adding to the cooking sauce.
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Cauliflower is a great option.
I like air frying them tossed in various seasonings, garlic, soy, sesame oil etc.I'm not the biggest fan of tricking myself into eating cauliflower rice, or courgette noodles/pasta, konjac noodles etc as I always feel the pang of an inferior option.
However, if its delicious in its own right, happy to choose it as a primary option.
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It is not easy to purge your house of snack items when you have a 5 year old kid at home!
If you're not set up physically or mentally to count calories and work out a suitable calorie deficit, you can do it the old fashioned way of cutting out or replacing something.The typical ones are:
Sugary drinks and juices -> water, sugar free squash, diet drinks
Beer/alcohol -> same as above
Chocolates / mince pies / biscuits/snacks -> veg sticks and hummus (possibly dangerous) / popcorn
Rice/pasta -> more vegKeeping up the volume of food, but reducing the calorie density using food choices will help you loads.
Having plenty of calorie free fluids while working from home helps keep me out the fridge and snack cupboard (coffee, tea, green tea, squash, water)
Also, although it feels wasteful, but in my experience not eating the 5 year old's leftovers at the end of meals will probably save a 1000 calories or so a week.
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Thats largely true, but not the whole picture.
Exercising and resistance exercise burns calories, while also giving you body recomposition.
The more muscle you have, the higher your metabolic rate, and more calories you burn just by existing.For some people, doing exercise also promotes healthier eating habits.
Losing weight by exercise is quite imprecise, compared to calorie counting and diet, but losing 7kg and many inches just by adding exercise is legit, impressive and very commendable.
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Well, Magnet are doing 50% off all kitchen cabinets if that gives some indication of their markup…
During non sale season, I wouldn’t be surprised if they are willing to negotiate close to sales season discounts.
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The convenience is not to be understated.
Missing / replacement hinges, shelves, panels etc that can be collected from the warehouse…When I did a quote from Magnet, I was quoted a 2.5 month delivery/installation lead time.
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That expanding and contracting thing sounds like a whole bunch of bullshit.
Isn’t silicon used because it’s flexible? And it will shear off if it’s stretched too much?Depending on the size you need, I quite like the look of the Samsung ones.
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I want to try one, looking at reviews, cheap ones do the job, but the grinding plates wear out quickly.
The Minosharp pull through are pretty good. Not great for German style knives with a bolster as it stops the sharpening near the choil.
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How are they supposed to be mounted? Just tension clips?
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I'll definitely do a 2025 thread.
It has been been a helpful, supportive and motivational space.
Also largely free of strange/unscientific advice, and its been a good source of food tips and hacks.My early Xmas present to myself, and diet hack (maybe) is a Ninja Creami. I've been playing around with recipes, but 250 calories for a pint of chocolate protein powder ice cream with 40g of protein and no added sugar?
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Shouting might be difficult with broken ribs, bruised lungs. I suppose he could flail his useless right arm in anger.
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This is cheap!
As I’m effectively saving £0.20 per kw by mainly using cheaper nighttime electricity, based on my usage, I will repay the battery in about 5 years.
As I’m exporting pretty much all solar at £0.15 / kw, if this price continues, the solar will take about 9 years to pay back.
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The battery is a no brainer, but not just because it stores excess solar.
If you get a low cost night time tariff, you can charge the battery at low cost during the winter, particular when solar is very minimal.
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Latest Humble bundle is pretty epic for FPS fans.
System Shock (remastered)
Crysis 1,2,3 remastered
Doom 2016
Prey
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Upon reading, it looks like it’s a bit of a quirky spec, with 10 speed shifters on an 11 speed rear cassette.
Not sure how that works?
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They still sell the Shimano spec version for £899 on the website. https://www.decathlon.co.uk/p/road-bike-triban-rc-520-disc-brake-blue/_/R-p-308072?mc=8554421
I don't have any experience with Microshift, if I doesn't get on with it, I have other shifters and derailleurs to put on. Maybe eTap 1x is a bit too extra...
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Not the most glamorous of bikes, but the Decathlon Triban 520 disc brake (TRP Hy/Rd) bike (with microshift 2x11 speed) for £599 which seems a lot of bike for the money.
Comes with 32mm Vittoria Randonneur Tech graphene 2.0s, and has clearance for up to 40mm, with plenty of extra mounting points for racks etc.Also with the Decathlon app, buy 4 items, and you get 20% off all of them. So I bought some beach shoes and a towel, and paid only £495.
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I would go 24-105 on the Canon, and a bright prime (50-85mm equiv) for fashionable defocused detail shots and portraits.
I think as a wedding photographer you are very noticeable at the start, and then you fade into the background anyway, particularly once people start getting progressively drunker.
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If you are likely to do a loft extension anyway, then I would do it now.
If you paid off debt, you would potentially have to borrow the money anyway to extend, and costs of doing the work will only get more expensive over time.The alternative is moving house, but the cost of that with stamp duty etc might be on par, or more expensive than the loft conversion.
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The cheap G rack stuff of Amazon/facebook worked ok for me as I dont need warehouse level durability.
The framing seems solid and fine, same as every other flat pack shelving, but reckon costs are cut on the MDF shelf, which I think is thinner/poorer quality since COVID and material cost increases.
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Zero shame being what causes people to have children?