We’re just sequestering carbon in the only way we know how.
We can do it Britain!
More seriously this is a hard problem to solve and, to my ignorant mind, seems to require a cultural rethink of our approach to food.
I am sceptical of calorie counting as a long-term solution for people. Those on a specific weight-loss or athletic regime may find such measures of value but it’s not sustainable for the normal person going about day-to-day life.
Instead, we need to find a way to move from the carbohydrate-rich foods that make up a large part of our diets and from a snacking culture.
Im sure we have been already? Did we lose the title?
Winning the bloat race!
Maybe not being able to afford food will help! /s
We are the champions
This is reassuring, it assumes we can still afford to eat by then.
Hold on, I thought we couldn’t afford food anymore and everyone was skipping meals.
Yes! I’m going to celebrate this achievement with a Toby Carvery with all the trimmings!
It’s likely due to healthy food being more time consuming to make(Outside of Rice and tbh, I fucking hate cooking rice and cleaning it up afterwards), people working more hours or trying to get more hours to make ends meet thus not having the energy to cook properly, food going up, everything going up etc…
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Oh and yeah, life costing too much. In my town, a fucking shitty millionaire set of flats have been announced. It’s not offically that but locals can’t afford it and it’ll ruin the bloody view on the beach.
We truly are the USA of Europe
Hah. Good luck with that when none of us can afford to eat
My issue is lack of time. Im up at 6.30 with kids, breakfast, shower, school run and im home by 9.10. Work till 2.45 with no lunch break, collect kids, get back home, settle them, work till 5, cook dinner, clean up, do bathtime, stories, their homework, tidy bits around the house, do bins etc, then back onto work till i finish any jobs im tasked with, log off around 9. Then im so fucked me and the wife just crash on sofa, watch a few epsiodes of tv before going to bed to repeat again
At least the UK is finally going to be the best at something
Becoming more stupid each day too.
The lack of people who have any basic emotional intelligence is scary.
We are the fattest. 97% of Turkey is in Asia.
Doesn’t help that when you’re a healthy weight lots of people will call you skinny or lanky
We’re a nation full of greedy and lazy cunts, abject of personal responsibility…
Roll Britannia
Insert comment that watching your food intake is:
Too expensive (false)
Time consuming (false)
Not sustainable (false)
You can literally eat nothing but custard creams for every meal and still not gain wait providing you’re aware of how many calories your own body requires
Confession time:
My mum is fat, a large side of my mums family is overweight, and many of my friends have been too… I really dislike it. I am not overweight, I have no hatred or any other rediculoius notion for people of any size, but I am judgemental enough to the point that i just wont respect you as much if your fat and don’t care. My mum did nothing about her weight and has heart problems, my friends with weight problems often are a bit gross and don’t shave often or smell.
I love my family, i enjoy spending time with my friends, there is nothing wrong with them and I rarely do anything with them where weight is an issue. But it would be nice to have more people in my life who care about their welbeing. Weightloss can be hard, and i don’t expect every person on earth to be toned to perfection, but I just get sad not having anyone else who keeps healthy. I care for myself, I put effort when i go out for meals and drinks. When most of my social life isn’t with people who do the same, it feels like betrayal, like others *don’t* care about their time with me (even if i know thats false).
Perhaps I was/am just a part of groups who happen to contain many above the average weight. Perhaps I am the odd one for trying to stay out of pudgey teritory. I don’t know, it just makes me sad sometimes for reasons that I stuggle to explain well.
This seems very much to stem from a uk mindset too, go to pub, have a chippy, dont bother cooking, microwave meals, internalise your problems and ignore your problems, don’t be rude or hurtful, fuck rude or hurtful people, laugh off whatevers wrong. I never really thought about it untill my teens but uk culture is very forgiving to unhealthy diet and very uncaring about keeping fit.
I don’t know why I chose this post to go on such a ramble but I think I just had to. I care about you as much as I care about me, you all should too, theres no shame in understanding and tackling a problem, and any good friend would be there to help.
“I’m doing my part!”
How about all these fucking companies like McVities or Nestle or whoever the fuck fill our shelves with sugary shite also be forced to pay for more community gardens, fruit and veg parcels, something i dont fucking know
We follow USA too closely. We need to stop this nonsense about how it’s good to be fat and you are beautiful no matter what. If you are fat you should make efforts to not be fat and that’s that. Am sure you are still beautiful within.
What does my head in is how often you hear parents can’t cook proper fresh meals for their kids because they’re too busy. This very kids more often than not finish school at 3/4pm and then often don’t have much to do. We need to flip this issue on its head and make it the norm that kids (once they reach a certain age) cook for their parents. Teach them home economics at school. Even set up some sort of affordable scheme similar to hello fresh from the government where kids then follow recipe cards with all the ingredients provided. It would install such good habits into kids and improve the diet of parents. It needs to be thought out a lot more than what I’ve suggested but such an initiative on a widespread scale shouldn’t be beyond the realms of possibility.
Stay tuned in this thread for 10000 reasons that eating anything but ready meals and chicken nuggets is basically impossible. Despite the UK having some of the cheapest food in PPP terms in the world, not to mention some of the most available and varied.
It’s OK Scotland will gain independence then the rest of the UK will be 2nd.
Exercise isn’t the answer. Most people are eating calories far in excess and burning 300 calories from a run isn’t going to be enough.
Most people are stress eating and eating cheap fast food. A 4 day working week, increasing wages & subsidising vegetables instead of meat.
These are the things that need to be looked into.
Scottish independence will send us back down the leaderboard
I can’t help thinking that allowing – and encouraging – people to stop work for lunch and maybe making it two hours rather than one would help, instead of people regularly eating “al desko” or snacking on high calorie, low nutrition foods. It’d also encourage people to get up and move around more, potentially.
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I’m sorry guys. I’ll try to lose some weight
We’re just sequestering carbon in the only way we know how.
We can do it Britain!
More seriously this is a hard problem to solve and, to my ignorant mind, seems to require a cultural rethink of our approach to food.
I am sceptical of calorie counting as a long-term solution for people. Those on a specific weight-loss or athletic regime may find such measures of value but it’s not sustainable for the normal person going about day-to-day life.
Instead, we need to find a way to move from the carbohydrate-rich foods that make up a large part of our diets and from a snacking culture.
Im sure we have been already? Did we lose the title?
Winning the bloat race!
Maybe not being able to afford food will help! /s
We are the champions
This is reassuring, it assumes we can still afford to eat by then.
Hold on, I thought we couldn’t afford food anymore and everyone was skipping meals.
Yes! I’m going to celebrate this achievement with a Toby Carvery with all the trimmings!
It’s likely due to healthy food being more time consuming to make(Outside of Rice and tbh, I fucking hate cooking rice and cleaning it up afterwards), people working more hours or trying to get more hours to make ends meet thus not having the energy to cook properly, food going up, everything going up etc…
​
Oh and yeah, life costing too much. In my town, a fucking shitty millionaire set of flats have been announced. It’s not offically that but locals can’t afford it and it’ll ruin the bloody view on the beach.
We truly are the USA of Europe
Hah. Good luck with that when none of us can afford to eat
My issue is lack of time. Im up at 6.30 with kids, breakfast, shower, school run and im home by 9.10. Work till 2.45 with no lunch break, collect kids, get back home, settle them, work till 5, cook dinner, clean up, do bathtime, stories, their homework, tidy bits around the house, do bins etc, then back onto work till i finish any jobs im tasked with, log off around 9. Then im so fucked me and the wife just crash on sofa, watch a few epsiodes of tv before going to bed to repeat again
At least the UK is finally going to be the best at something
Becoming more stupid each day too.
The lack of people who have any basic emotional intelligence is scary.
We are the fattest. 97% of Turkey is in Asia.
Doesn’t help that when you’re a healthy weight lots of people will call you skinny or lanky
We’re a nation full of greedy and lazy cunts, abject of personal responsibility…
Roll Britannia
Insert comment that watching your food intake is:
Too expensive (false)
Time consuming (false)
Not sustainable (false)
You can literally eat nothing but custard creams for every meal and still not gain wait providing you’re aware of how many calories your own body requires
Confession time:
My mum is fat, a large side of my mums family is overweight, and many of my friends have been too… I really dislike it. I am not overweight, I have no hatred or any other rediculoius notion for people of any size, but I am judgemental enough to the point that i just wont respect you as much if your fat and don’t care. My mum did nothing about her weight and has heart problems, my friends with weight problems often are a bit gross and don’t shave often or smell.
I love my family, i enjoy spending time with my friends, there is nothing wrong with them and I rarely do anything with them where weight is an issue. But it would be nice to have more people in my life who care about their welbeing. Weightloss can be hard, and i don’t expect every person on earth to be toned to perfection, but I just get sad not having anyone else who keeps healthy. I care for myself, I put effort when i go out for meals and drinks. When most of my social life isn’t with people who do the same, it feels like betrayal, like others *don’t* care about their time with me (even if i know thats false).
Perhaps I was/am just a part of groups who happen to contain many above the average weight. Perhaps I am the odd one for trying to stay out of pudgey teritory. I don’t know, it just makes me sad sometimes for reasons that I stuggle to explain well.
This seems very much to stem from a uk mindset too, go to pub, have a chippy, dont bother cooking, microwave meals, internalise your problems and ignore your problems, don’t be rude or hurtful, fuck rude or hurtful people, laugh off whatevers wrong. I never really thought about it untill my teens but uk culture is very forgiving to unhealthy diet and very uncaring about keeping fit.
I don’t know why I chose this post to go on such a ramble but I think I just had to. I care about you as much as I care about me, you all should too, theres no shame in understanding and tackling a problem, and any good friend would be there to help.
“I’m doing my part!”
How about all these fucking companies like McVities or Nestle or whoever the fuck fill our shelves with sugary shite also be forced to pay for more community gardens, fruit and veg parcels, something i dont fucking know
We follow USA too closely. We need to stop this nonsense about how it’s good to be fat and you are beautiful no matter what. If you are fat you should make efforts to not be fat and that’s that. Am sure you are still beautiful within.
What does my head in is how often you hear parents can’t cook proper fresh meals for their kids because they’re too busy. This very kids more often than not finish school at 3/4pm and then often don’t have much to do. We need to flip this issue on its head and make it the norm that kids (once they reach a certain age) cook for their parents. Teach them home economics at school. Even set up some sort of affordable scheme similar to hello fresh from the government where kids then follow recipe cards with all the ingredients provided. It would install such good habits into kids and improve the diet of parents. It needs to be thought out a lot more than what I’ve suggested but such an initiative on a widespread scale shouldn’t be beyond the realms of possibility.
Stay tuned in this thread for 10000 reasons that eating anything but ready meals and chicken nuggets is basically impossible. Despite the UK having some of the cheapest food in PPP terms in the world, not to mention some of the most available and varied.
It’s OK Scotland will gain independence then the rest of the UK will be 2nd.
Exercise isn’t the answer. Most people are eating calories far in excess and burning 300 calories from a run isn’t going to be enough.
Most people are stress eating and eating cheap fast food. A 4 day working week, increasing wages & subsidising vegetables instead of meat.
These are the things that need to be looked into.
Scottish independence will send us back down the leaderboard
I can’t help thinking that allowing – and encouraging – people to stop work for lunch and maybe making it two hours rather than one would help, instead of people regularly eating “al desko” or snacking on high calorie, low nutrition foods. It’d also encourage people to get up and move around more, potentially.