the atkins diet

[CANV EFM]

previously thought of as a west coast fad for yoga merchants.. now rapidly catching as a lifestyle choice for the middle classes..

i read the first bit of the book on the train home in my never ending quest to broaden a mind already broader than a fat birds harris..

and guess what, it actually seems to be a good idea.. ignoring the science crap its basically a 50's style diet with lots of meat egg fish lard n not much bread..no pizzas or 15 slices of toast after a piss up .. the advent of cheap highly processed white flour products full of salt n sugar but low in fat could be the cause of the biggest obeseity outbreak since ..well since ever.. anyone else read it yet?

[Chubbhead EFM]

Not read it, but heard a lot about it. Apparently you can't eat fruit or veg or have milk or bascially anything that's good for you. Someone who was on the diet came into Costa and wanted a cold ice latte. But she couldn't have milk, oh no! Instead, full fat double cream, with coffee, blended and then whipped cream on top. Weird! Doesn't seem like the wisest diet I've ever heard of.

[Stu B]

My mum was on...worked for her while she was on it,but then she went on holiday and didn't stick with it.She missed bread though...

[CANV EFM]

not strictly true chubby.. thats the first 2 weeks or longer depending on how fat your are to begin with.. seems you can eat as much fruit n veg as you want once u reach your target weight providing the carbs in these dont make you put weight back on.. a guy here has gone from a porky 16 st to 14 and half in a month n he has just gone to get bacon n poached eggs for breakfast..!

 

[EFM's Librarian]

They're only just starting to find out that it has lots of potentially bad effects, especially on the kidneys, which can't cope with all the extra protein, and may end up with long term damage. Apparently some teenager in the states has died because of it recently, although I'm not sure of the reliability of that story.

[Colin Zeal EFM]

I'm doing the Zeal Diet.

 

Breakfast

A pie from the hot food van about 11am.

 

Lunch

Three cans of Kroney and the previous night's chinese leftovers

 

Dinner

Several cans of Kroney, a bottle of wine, a couple of glasses of Drambuie plus whatever Mrs Zeal's in the kitchen cooking.

 

Repeat.

 

 

[Little Miss Urchin]

Quote:

Colin Zeal EFM said:
plus whatever Mrs Zeal's in the kitchen cooking.

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[Laz]

What's wrong with that LMU?

[ESG]

soundz like the right place to me?

[Little Miss Urchin]

Nothing wrong, just something I noticed.

 

If there's does appear to you that there is a bitter undertone to my previous post than it is merely jealousy.

[ESG]

[Little Miss Urchin]

Was that some sort of internet Knock Down Ginger, ESG?

[ESG]

knock down ginger?

is that still going

 

british bulldog, jumpers 4 goalposts, marvelous isnt it mmm

[Chubbhead EFM]

Ah-ha, you've jogged my memeory there CANV! I remember one of my friends did it, and isn't it that after a week or so you have a rest or something? She lost weight really quickly, but unfortunately (for me) it gave her bad breath.

 

If you eat no fruit and veg, does it leave you constipated? Because I'm going to Reading on thursday and I don't want to have to poo in those toilets. Or at least regulate my toilet habits between 11am and 11pm when the arena loos are open.

[Colin Zeal EFM]

Found a good article about the Reading toilets on the web this morning. I'll plonk it on here after lunch.

 

 

[CANV EFM]

im going to try the CANV version.. seeing as 97 per cent of my diet is bread based.. im gonna cut down massivly on that and load up on protien i dont need to lose any weight so ill miss out the 2 week nazi bit and eat fruit n veg if i have any trouble sh.tting ill just increase my uptake of guiness

[Chubbhead EFM]

I'm scared of the portaloos at Reading, a friend of a friend was in one once and someone tipped it over with him inside. He was trapped in there for 6 hours.

[R Zimmerman]

I went to V this weekend just gone, apparently it has the reputation of the cleanest festival toilets in the country, apparently.

[Colin Zeal EFM]

The death knell has sounded for the blue-hued festival commode, laments John Robinson

 

Thursday August 14 2003

The Guardian

 

There are some who attempt to put a brave face on it. There are those who avoid it, wherever possible. There are even some who attempt to take drugs in it.

 

But however you approach it, a visit to the blue festival loo is at this time of year something of a certainty - like death, it will come to us all, and what's more, it's something that must be faced alone.

 

It brings out the best in us, for sure. Rage Against The Latrine. Portaloo Sunset. The whole festival lavatory experience is generally processed with help from the British headline-writer's sense of humour, and that's great.

 

The fact remains: if a British holidaymaker found this kind of thing in a foreign hotel they'd videotape their wife standing in front of it, and post the evidence to Watchdog.

 

This year, however, those attending the Carling Weekend are promised that major change is in the wind. We're not talking a Roskilde level of sophistication here, but some significant changes have certainly been made.

 

The Leeds end of the festival will boast "campsite action teams". New lighting. Instant supermarkets. Most significantly of all, though, we're talking major toilet upheaval.

 

The last post has been called for the familiar warm hue of the blue cubicle loo, and a commitment made to new and more robust ones. As Metallica might delight in saying, they're all metal.

 

The point being, if you're a stranger to toilet chat on this kind of level, that if they're metal, it might be a lot harder to set them on fire. In 2001, at the Temple Newsam festival site in Leeds on the Sunday night, rioters pelted the police with stones, and set three toilet blocks on fire. Nine people received hospital treatment.

 

Last year, the festival initially had its licence refused by the council, citing unsatisfactory toilet procedure (though not, funnily enough, their being set ablaze).

 

Then, when the festival finally took place, events pretty much repeated themselves - one of the toilet blocks was burned to the ground on the Sunday night.

 

Just as the history of a nation can be told by what it discards, so can the history of festivals in Britain, though in an admittedly quite unpleasant and obtuse way, be told through its toilets.

 

The advent of Glastonbury's often-referenced "million-pound super fence" last year was one sign that the times were changing. The same event's banning of campfires (to be repeated, unsurprisingly, at Reading and Leeds this year) was another.

 

Now, the modern era of festival-going is ushered in by the arrival of no more surreal an indicator of where we are headed than legions of fireproof commodes. There are still, of course, those for whom this marks some kind of dreadful namby-pambying of the festival circuit, much as their ancestors thought penicillin a total wimping out on all the high-minded principles of disease.

 

These we leave mad-eyed in smocks and listening to Hawkwind. We, meanwhile, march on into the future of festivals, with only the light from a blazing portaloo to guide our way. Mind how you go, now.

 

Copyright Guardian Newspapers Limited

 

[ESG]

virgin radio tent loos

wouldn't have been out of place in buck house