My good intentions

linsen

I need to stop eating chocolate biscuits and cycle to work at least once a week.

This will require more determination than you could possibly imagine

Can you all nag me please?

Thank you

always_tyred

unclemalc

linsen wrote:

I need to stop eating chocolate biscuits and cycle to work at least once a week.

This will require more determination than you could possibly imagine

Can you all nag me please?

Thank you

DON'T DO IT LINSEN - I'M WATCHING YOU..... :shock:

ChrisLS

...I used to way sixteen and a half stone...I stopped eating chocalate biscuits and started exercising and then started riding to work...I now way thirteen stone... 8)

...come on linsen you know you can do it...

linsen

Ha, AT, I will resist all the more iin rebellion at your meanness 8)

nicklouse

Mmmm

don_don

I'll do it if you will.

Although I already ride to work every day, but I'll join you in a cake and chocolate 'cutting-down'.

Except today. I'm going to the gym at lunch-time so will reward myself with a Double-Decker, sorry :oops:

ansbaradigeidfran

Lindt, yes. Particularly the 85% stuff.

But chilli? :shock: It just spoils it...

On a more helpful note, I lived without chocolate for eighteen months, having decided one morning that three chocolate bars the day before was too much. The fact that Mrs Bran avoids chocolate after bad experiences with lactose intolerance made me walk into it cold turkey. My sugary-energy food role was filled with home-made flapjacks.

A year and a half later, I decided to have some again, after negotiations with the other half. I still eat flapjacks, though.

DavidBelcher

linsen wrote:

I need to stop eating chocolate biscuits and cycle to work at least once a week.

This will require more determination than you could possibly imagine

Can you all nag me please?

Thank you

Happy to help out. Simply send all your chocolate biscuits to me via 1st Class post, and I will see that they are professionally disposed of. Possibly with a nice cuppa.

David

Massimo

Would it help if I told you I'm working my way through a box of Millies Cookies at the moment. Mmmmmm banana & fudge....

hisoka

You can do it Linsen, I would join you but I don't have a working bike. I know, should I even be reading here? Well yes, I am working on a frankenstien's creation of a bike to get me through till cycle 2 work in Janurary hehehe.
But you can do it!

BoardinBob

Keep a food diary. I've started doing it and when you actually log what you eat it becomes more glaringly obvious when you're munching stuff you shouldn't.

knight2k

Go for a two phase approach.

Phase 1 - If you cycle to work then you can have chocolate biscuits.

Phase 2 - Once you're happily cycling to work more often then think about reducing the intake of chocolate biscuits. Maybe switching to a lower fat option in the interim as you attempt to finally wean yourself off.

You need to be strong during phase 1. Chanting the mantra 'NO BIKING! NO BISCUITS!' as soon as you wake up in the morning or having it written in strategic places will be a useful aid. As well as having those close to you chant it at you if they see you with a biscuit in your hand, knowing full well you've not biked anywhere that day.

And on a final note I think the forum favourite - MTFU - could apply too.

All together now - 'NO BIKING! NO BISCUITS!'.

linsen

I like your saying "NO BIKING NO BISCUITS"

I am feeling very virtuous on this, day 1, and have just biked my little 6-mile quickie (chalking up a personal world record average speed of 16.9mph woo hoo!). ANd I have not eaten anything chocolate.

I have done all this cutting out before but it's a very up and down thing. It's easy to get into bad habits I think. And to eat the same on non-biking days too.....

For those coming on the 28th to the Morpeth I hope to be able to tell you the nagging has worked

PS David Belcher you live in Winchester- I could throw all the biscuits into your front garden as I cycle to work (if I had any that is)

Cheers you lot!

don_don

Chanting the mantra 'NO BIKING! NO BISCUITS!' as soon as you wake up in the morning or having it written in strategic places will be a useful aid

If I had the nerve I'd consider getting that tatooed somewhere

The Chingford Skinhead

Always Tyred wrote:

That was both hilarious (esp as the first reply and with George winking from the aviator) and cruel. Luckily for me I'm a dark chocolate lover and the sight of the milk chocolate bikkies do nothing for me.

I too am a bit partial to chcolate feasts instead of more health options. I'll join Linsen in her battle of wills.

No biking, no biscuits, no biking, no biscuits
Biking, A biscuit, Biking, A biscuit (I know my weakness, if I don't say A biscuit I'll take a short ride as authority to hoover up everything in the sweet jar!

knight2k

linsen wrote:

I like your saying "NO BIKING NO BISCUITS"

I am feeling very virtuous on this, day 1, and have just biked my little 6-mile quickie (chalking up a personal world record average speed of 16.9mph woo hoo!). ANd I have not eaten anything chocolate.

I have done all this cutting out before but it's a very up and down thing. It's easy to get into bad habits I think. And to eat the same on non-biking days too.....

For those coming on the 28th to the Morpeth I hope to be able to tell you the nagging has worked

PS David Belcher you live in Winchester- I could throw all the biscuits into your front garden as I cycle to work (if I had any that is)

Cheers you lot!

I'll be there on the 28th to check on your progress.


NO BIKING NO BISCUITS

DavidBelcher

linsen wrote:

PS David Belcher you live in Winchester- I could throw all the biscuits into your front garden as I cycle to work (if I had any that is)

That would probably attract plenty of birds, so next door's cat would certainly appreciate the favour (judging by the amount of pigeon feathers around the place in recent months)!

David

linsen

Hey Chingford Skinhead you've put those blinking digestives to the top of another page!

dennisn

You lazy, good for nothing, fat slob of a couch potato. Get off your fat ass and on that bike before I come over there and kick your butt up over your shoulders. Damn useless
people. And when I get there I had better not see any beer in the fridge or you will
"drop and give me 20" for each bottle. How's that for a bit of nagging. Be more than happy to do it daily if I find you with that remote control again.

Dennis Noward

unclemalc

I'M STILL HERE---DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT.
STOP LOOKING AT THE PHOTO FROM THE SKINHEAD D'YA HEAR????

:evil:

linsen

8) All well so far.....

The Chingford Skinhead

linsen wrote:

Hey Chingford Skinhead you've put those blinking digestives to the top of another page!

:oops: I didn't know it would go there :oops:

Resist, resist, resist. The desire for biscuts is really the brain saying you want to go for a ride

always_tyred

linsen wrote:

Hey Chingford Skinhead you've put those blinking digestives to the top of another page!

I like your new hair cut Linsen.

linsen

Cheers. Grade 3 all over......

cjw

linsen wrote:

Cheers. Grade 3 all over......

Linsen.... you're bear :oops:

linsen

I've been to the gym and for a ride and wound the clock and you'll notice if you look at the top of the page that all the biscuits are sitting there untouched......

always_tyred

linsen wrote:

I've been to the gym and for a ride and wound the clock and you'll notice if you look at the top of the page that all the biscuits are sitting there untouched......

Jen J

Always Tyred wrote:

linsen wrote:

I've been to the gym and for a ride and wound the clock and you'll notice if you look at the top of the page that all the biscuits are sitting there untouched......

linsen

linsen

Don't encourage him, Jen - he's mean to me :roll: