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justanoldgamer: I saw my doctor Tuesday. My pressure is 5 above good (I can never remember the precise numbers) and I've gain 10 pounds since I started seeing her 2 or 3 years ago. Well 20 really, I dropped 10 and then gained 20.

She told me to cut salt and beer. My main unnecessary source of salt are chips (crisps for people in England) and that is easy enough to forego. Beer is tougher though, I do like my beer. I won't cut that 100% but I will cut down form about 7 L a week to at least half of that.

I did my grocery shopping online this morning (first time, it's a lot less "anxiogène" for someone like me) and wherever I could (meaning what is offered and what I can pay) I chose low fat / low salt/ low sugar alternatives. I am aware that when something announces it is low fat/sugar/salt then the two others are often higher to preserve the good taste so I try looking out for that.

I'm cheating on the beer tonight but I prefer going 2 or 3 days without then going everyday with just one. I'll manage my beer intake like I manage my internet traffic, I'm a youtube and Netflix addict without unlimited bandwidth.

I do wish someone made a low calorie beer that taste great. If the progress in that department had been as great as the progress in video/sound compression then obesity would be history. Taste is a sort of data, isn't it? We view video data with our eyes and can compress that. We hear audio data with our ears and can compress that. People in biochemistry should really get on the compression business too and increase taste per calorie.

Edit: Corrected a than for then.

justanoldgamer: My main unnecessary source of salt are chips (crisps for people in England)

Sachys: You mean people that speak English! Only those that use Americanglish use the word chips to describe a thin, seasoned crisp fried slice of potato.
A chip is exactly that - a chip of potato - deep fried (or oven baked with additional fat not pre-applied to the standard variety).
If you mean those in the UK, please see above!
Just being pedantic, but worthwhile - the language of the Hermit cave is English! ;D

Crewdroog: Cookie
Apartment
Bar

Crewdroog: Lawyer

Crewdroog:

Sachys: lawyers and barristers arent always the same thing here - though a barrister may work as both - so I suppose they go in the first category.

Crewdroog: I learn something new everyday! Hmm, now let's get on about how you brits pronounce things silly. Let's start at the beginning: aluminum. ;)

Sachys: Theres an I missing! - not only in the spelling, but the pronunciation.

Bit like the republican candidate speeches for many years where "We" actually means "I" and "I" usually means, "YOU!"

Crewdroog: meh, you all and adding unnecessary letters to things. color, dammit!

Sachys: Nope, and nope. Those other vowels are not invisible just because your dinosaurus text book doesnt show them properly.

...to be fair, you did eat half of it - but you should have digested that also!

Crewdroog: eh, just like the brits decided to stop being all frenchy with not pronouning the "H" in words (herbs) in the 19th century and now we're all dolts for pronouncing like it has been for, well, ever.

Sachys: the french dont pronounce it either - its a glottle.

- source: I GOT FIVE ON IT!