Dr Gloom

fabric live used to have some ridiculous line ups but it was always way too rammed in there. the tru playaz nights were insane but the end was the home of dnb in london. absolutely amazing venue. did you ever make it there before it shut alex? they used to host the ram, logical progression, renegade hardware and moving shadow nights plus marky and friends, which was just brilliant.

king is the master. i'm still working my way through his massive back catalogue. he rarely disappoints.

Ryan Reynolds? If so, I liked it. yeah. she's claustrophobic so doesn't massively fancy it. it's my turn to choose though so hoping i can persuade her

i started off about 16 going to the shindig and megadog then went to uni in sheffield and got into drum n bass. last time i went to a serious night was the last circo loco at the end before it shut a couple of years back - a night of minimal techno and tbh i felt way too old for it. used to love going out on friday and not getting to sleep until sunday morning back in the days when i had the stamina. was anyone else in to it back in the day? or are your 24 hour party days still in full effect? where did/do you go out?

anyone seen buried? trying to persuade mrs G to give it a go tonight

doesn't look the most appetising does it?

pretty much knocked it on the head now, sadly. the mrs (a classic reformed smoker) won't let me come anywhere near her if i've been smoking these days.

i love making curry but i never get it quite as tasty as a proper curry house. probably because i use olive oil instead of ghee Aye, I don't use ghee and I think that's the main difference. I actually discussed it with wor lass but decided not to bother trying it as it's a much healthier alternative if you don't. I use groundnut or sunflower oil though as olive oil has a bit of a taste that doesn't really go in a curry iyam. I still have the odd gut-buster from the takeaway or go out for a curry though which is fine once in a while. absolutely; it's definitely my weakness when it comes to fast food.

who wants to be a fatty when you've got 100 people looking at your arse for half an hour? So you were fat before the wedding crash-diet? no, it wasn't a crash diet. it was a professionally designed training plan combined with a calorie deficit diet based on sensible nutrition. i've never been really fat but i hit a point in my late 20s when i started to get love handles, yeah. suddenly i couldn't get away with eating and drinking what i wanted and keeping fat off so i joined a gym. i spent a good year or two wasting my time and money and not getting results i wanted so i used my wedding as a target to get in shape; i did my research, got a lot of helpful advice online (that i didn't ignore!) and worked out what really works. i wasted a couple of years before that, which is why i'm trying to help CT - and anyone else that's interested - in getting in shape. in my experience, crash diets don't work.

You need a woman ,then. i still don't get it

balls, he's in my fantasy football side

who wants to be a fatty when you've got 100 people looking at your arse for half an hour?

Other way round for me, my gym sessions started precisely because of the overeating. I'm sure that's true of a lot of people who weren't particularly active as kids - there comes a point where your metabolism doesn't do what it used to (and it's not as if I was ever stick-thin in the first place). Fortunately, exercising a bit and eating a bit more healthily aren't the hardest things in the world once you start to see the results and get the motivation that brings - it doesn't mean having to become a soulless GymBot. My point really (and I appreciate what you're saying). If we take the Gemmil example, (and dont take this personally Gemmil). Nearly every night he's cooking some delicious Jamie Oliver offering. While not the worst food in the world, those meals if combined with a normal breakfast lunch and a few treats , will produce a serious amount of calories. Because he is blasting the gym daily, the extra calories are being burned off and he should be keeping the weight off. By his own admission he has usually dwindled from the gym by March and it is at this point the calories will suddenly start to turn to fat. By bashing the gym it is allowing him to "cheat" the system. Add into this the fact that when your younger, you are naturally more energetic and your metabolism works better. When you are older, you are basically fucked. I appreciate they're are exceptions to the rule. sorry like mate but that is just a load of old bollocks. you're using age as an excuse not to excercise. i'm not saying it doesn't get more difficult as you get older but age alone isn't an excuse to not stay active. injury or illness is one thing, but i know plenty of guys in their 50s in my gym that are as fit as a fiddle. a healthy diet plus regular excercise will change the way you look and feel for the better. a healthy diet alone can also do this but to a lesser extent. but tbh, from what i've read on this thread, i'm not convinced you are doing either. i excercise because it makes me feel good and it helps improve body composition. also because i like to eat and our bodies need to be fueled well. i eat a lot of calories but it's all stuff with a good nutritional value, unlike the crap you put into your body. when you are active, you need good range of healthy fats, non-refined carbs and lean protein to give you energy and to help the body recover and muscle mass to build. it sounds like you've got into a path of starving yourself during the week then binge eating junk and boozing at the weekend. while this may result in a calorie deficit and dropping some weight, you're basically going to end up with a 'skinny fat' body composition - in other words, you're muscle mass will drop and you're body will cling on to its fat. so while you will drop pounds and feel good when you attend your weight watchers meetings, you'll still feel embarrassed about taking your shirt off at the beach. i've offered this advice before because but i feel it will fall on deaf ears again. only trying to help you stop wasting your time. Lets remember, your path was admittedly littered with lots of failed attempts. It may be I have to go down the same trodden path. I appreciate there are blokes in their 50's who are super fit and bash the gym but everything has a scale to it. If we take a fitness and healthy eating scale of 1 - 10, with 1 being an utter slob who eats takeaways most nights and does zero exercise, I think most who read your remarks over the months would place you at a 10. I would place myself at about 2.5. I dont want to get to 10, but would be quite happy to get to 5 This being the case, your regime wouldnt suit me, however I do concede that I need to do more to hit my goal and I am looking at ways of putting some sort of weekly plan in place that I can achieve and stick to. nah, not really, at least not anymore. when i was cutting before my wedding i got obsessively into it and i'd say i was a 10 for a period of about 6 months and got into the shape of my life. now i'm probably an 8 or 9 during the week (i still allow myself the odd glass of wine and piece of chocholate after dinner durign the week) then a 5 or 6 at the weekend, when i'll go out to eat and have a few drinks. but i've found a balance of healthy eating and excercise during the week and letting myself go a bit at the weekend. but even then. i'm still making sure the calories i'm getting are nuritious and i'm not starving myself. it works for me; i've got more body fat now than i did a year or two back but i feel good about myself because i've found a sustainable way of living and have lost the love handles for good. I'm sensing a beautiful coming together. The hardened, bitter DG can teach CT about balanced diets and nutrition while the bountiful, optimistic CT changes the entire outlook of DG, showing that, he too, can love again. louie, i think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship

i love making curry but i never get it quite as tasty as a proper curry house. probably because i use olive oil instead of ghee

Other way round for me, my gym sessions started precisely because of the overeating. I'm sure that's true of a lot of people who weren't particularly active as kids - there comes a point where your metabolism doesn't do what it used to (and it's not as if I was ever stick-thin in the first place). Fortunately, exercising a bit and eating a bit more healthily aren't the hardest things in the world once you start to see the results and get the motivation that brings - it doesn't mean having to become a soulless GymBot. My point really (and I appreciate what you're saying). If we take the Gemmil example, (and dont take this personally Gemmil). Nearly every night he's cooking some delicious Jamie Oliver offering. While not the worst food in the world, those meals if combined with a normal breakfast lunch and a few treats , will produce a serious amount of calories. Because he is blasting the gym daily, the extra calories are being burned off and he should be keeping the weight off. By his own admission he has usually dwindled from the gym by March and it is at this point the calories will suddenly start to turn to fat. By bashing the gym it is allowing him to "cheat" the system. Add into this the fact that when your younger, you are naturally more energetic and your metabolism works better. When you are older, you are basically fucked. I appreciate they're are exceptions to the rule. sorry like mate but that is just a load of old bollocks. you're using age as an excuse not to excercise. i'm not saying it doesn't get more difficult as you get older but age alone isn't an excuse to not stay active. injury or illness is one thing, but i know plenty of guys in their 50s in my gym that are as fit as a fiddle. a healthy diet plus regular excercise will change the way you look and feel for the better. a healthy diet alone can also do this but to a lesser extent. but tbh, from what i've read on this thread, i'm not convinced you are doing either. i excercise because it makes me feel good and it helps improve body composition. also because i like to eat and our bodies need to be fueled well. i eat a lot of calories but it's all stuff with a good nutritional value, unlike the crap you put into your body. when you are active, you need good range of healthy fats, non-refined carbs and lean protein to give you energy and to help the body recover and muscle mass to build. it sounds like you've got into a path of starving yourself during the week then binge eating junk and boozing at the weekend. while this may result in a calorie deficit and dropping some weight, you're basically going to end up with a 'skinny fat' body composition - in other words, you're muscle mass will drop and you're body will cling on to its fat. so while you will drop pounds and feel good when you attend your weight watchers meetings, you'll still feel embarrassed about taking your shirt off at the beach. i've offered this advice before because but i feel it will fall on deaf ears again. only trying to help you stop wasting your time. Lets remember, your path was admittedly littered with lots of failed attempts. It may be I have to go down the same trodden path. I appreciate there are blokes in their 50's who are super fit and bash the gym but everything has a scale to it. If we take a fitness and healthy eating scale of 1 - 10, with 1 being an utter slob who eats takeaways most nights and does zero exercise, I think most who read your remarks over the months would place you at a 10. I would place myself at about 2.5. I dont want to get to 10, but would be quite happy to get to 5 This being the case, your regime wouldnt suit me, however I do concede that I need to do more to hit my goal and I am looking at ways of putting some sort of weekly plan in place that I can achieve and stick to. nah, not really, at least not anymore. when i was cutting before my wedding i got obsessively into it and i'd say i was a 10 for a period of about 6 months and got into the shape of my life. now i'm probably an 8 or 9 during the week (i still allow myself the odd glass of wine and piece of chocholate after dinner durign the week) then a 5 or 6 at the weekend, when i'll go out to eat and have a few drinks. but i've found a balance of healthy eating and excercise during the week and letting myself go a bit at the weekend. but even then. i'm still making sure the calories i'm getting are nuritious and i'm not starving myself. it works for me; i've got more body fat now than i did a year or two back but i feel good about myself because i've found a sustainable way of living and have lost the love handles for good.

i don't get it

i like the ideal of double summer time. fuck the jocks. if they want to stay on gmt/bst let them. doesn't mean we have to

if we finish well and the chairman displayed an ounce of ambition he might. not that i expect either of those things to happen

jesus, what a wanker.

Other way round for me, my gym sessions started precisely because of the overeating. I'm sure that's true of a lot of people who weren't particularly active as kids - there comes a point where your metabolism doesn't do what it used to (and it's not as if I was ever stick-thin in the first place). Fortunately, exercising a bit and eating a bit more healthily aren't the hardest things in the world once you start to see the results and get the motivation that brings - it doesn't mean having to become a soulless GymBot. My point really (and I appreciate what you're saying). If we take the Gemmil example, (and dont take this personally Gemmil). Nearly every night he's cooking some delicious Jamie Oliver offering. While not the worst food in the world, those meals if combined with a normal breakfast lunch and a few treats , will produce a serious amount of calories. Because he is blasting the gym daily, the extra calories are being burned off and he should be keeping the weight off. By his own admission he has usually dwindled from the gym by March and it is at this point the calories will suddenly start to turn to fat. By bashing the gym it is allowing him to "cheat" the system. Add into this the fact that when your younger, you are naturally more energetic and your metabolism works better. When you are older, you are basically fucked. I appreciate they're are exceptions to the rule. sorry like mate but that is just a load of old bollocks. you're using age as an excuse not to excercise. i'm not saying it doesn't get more difficult as you get older but age alone isn't an excuse to not stay active. injury or illness is one thing, but i know plenty of guys in their 50s in my gym that are as fit as a fiddle. a healthy diet plus regular excercise will change the way you look and feel for the better. a healthy diet alone can also do this but to a lesser extent. but tbh, from what i've read on this thread, i'm not convinced you are doing either. i excercise because it makes me feel good and it helps improve body composition. also because i like to eat and our bodies need to be fueled well. i eat a lot of calories but it's all stuff with a good nutritional value, unlike the crap you put into your body. when you are active, you need good range of healthy fats, non-refined carbs and lean protein to give you energy and to help the body recover and muscle mass to build. it sounds like you've got into a path of starving yourself during the week then binge eating junk and boozing at the weekend. while this may result in a calorie deficit and dropping some weight, you're basically going to end up with a 'skinny fat' body composition - in other words, you're muscle mass will drop and you're body will cling on to its fat. so while you will drop pounds and feel good when you attend your weight watchers meetings, you'll still feel embarrassed about taking your shirt off at the beach. i've offered this advice before because but i feel it will fall on deaf ears again. only trying to help you stop wasting your time.

Leazesmag, you really are a tedious old bore. time to move on. We get what what you think on this matter. Do you really have so little to contribute? It seems youre incapable of contibuting anything but this tired old line on this forum. It got boring three years ago.

Quinoa > Bulgur wheat > couscous. What the fuck is wrong with you? nowt man, quinoa is the grain of the gods. i use it in a lush superfood salad with feta, peas, cucumber, mint, spring onions, avacados and a french vinaigrette.

Any 'irregular betting patterns'? there were some irregular bowel movements but that was down to a batch of dodgy prawn curry they had for lunch

so paying more money on a player than we sold him for is excellent business?

Quinoa > Bulgur wheat > couscous.