I dunno.. but I really don’t think 9 years olds should have any type of responsibility for ensuring their vegetarian diets have the adequate nutrients. I’m being deliberately cheeky here: you wouldn’t say to a White Eater “well son, if you’ll only eat white food then you need to research and help make your own meals to ensure you’re eating a balanced diet” IMO Life doesn’t work like that. If your kid chooses to be a vegetarian or will only eat white food then the responsibility of a nutritious diet falls on the parent/s. Please, I do acknowledge how excruciating difficult it would be to have a fussy eater, I was just making the point that no matter what, IMO the responsibility falls back to the parent/s as shitty as that may be. On the Carb Conversation, IME it’s classic rookie stuff to lean on an Italian high carb menu when you first go vegetarian, you soon go “arr fark I really don’t feel like pasta tonight” and you’ll start to experiment with other cuisines. Please let me know if I need to check my privilege at the door…

Lipton teabags for me and Twisties or some other chips for DH.

Monday: Chicken sausages with potato salad and garlic green beans Tuesday: Baked pork chops with salad Wednesday: Penne with zucchini, rocket, sundried tomatoes and feta Thursday: I have a work event dinner, DH and DD can raid the freezer Friday: Salt and pepper squid, chips and salad Saturday: Going out for my Nanna's birthday Sunday: Beef ribs with corn on the cob and salad A bit heavy on the salad, I saw 20-something degrees all week and ran with it!

Good luck to all the NSW yr12 kids starting their exams tomorrow morning!!!!!! English paper 1, starting at 9:50am. Dd was at school for an hour this morning, last group study session with their teacher, and says it hasn’t sunk in that the exams start tomorrow.

Absolutely typical of Newman in power. I'm sure his idol is Jeff Kennett.

Yeah I was anticipating they'd get 3.5s because only one room they probably would've gotten 7s for. For the girls upstairs, lots of places just have a bar fridge, kettle and microwave rather than kitchenette. I like the thought behind Mimi and Kristian using that room as a rumpus for the pool access, with different styling that could've been great for families where they want to be able to lounge whilst staying close to the pool but the kids are old enough to not need direct supervision in the pool.

Women like that often have a rude awakening when they realise that men don’t respect them did their guess and just see them as pieces of meat

Yeah I thought the same @LemonMyrtle. Would have been the first thing I did! There are windows and you could have put a glass panel in to get light from the kitchen/dining/living area. I just don’t feel comfortable with the safety of it.

One thing I will suggest is that if you are going to use weights - watch lots of tutorials around correct form and practice in front of a mirror. Choose weights based on being able to do a chosen rep range with correct form. It doesn't matter so much if you're basically doing weighted cardio, but it's important if you plan on going heavier than 3-4 kg & actually want to build muscle.

Although not for overall fitness, I would like to share my favourite exercises as I have found them extremely effective at reversing early Dowager’s hump / text neck which I noticed I was starting to develop a few months ago and was causing me a lot of neck pain. This set of exercises only takes five minutes per day and I now feel fantastic. https://www.yorkvillesportsmed.com/blog/the-6-best-stretches-exercises-to-correct-dowagers-hump I notice a lot of elderly ladies suffer from this, so with younger people spending so much time bending over electronic devices, I wanted to alert everyone about how to prevent this painful condition.

On the muscle loss, yep I can definitely tell the difference in my body at the same weight, fit vs unfit.

I had an adrenal gland removed - one of the best days of my life, cured 20 years of significant illnesses. Major surgery in terms of length and delicacy. I picked the wrong person to joke with though. The endocrine surgeon was brilliant but ... banter wasn't his thing. When he came to tell me the pathology results he said it weighed 6.5 grams. I said 'all that for 6.5 grams!'. He didn't laugh. I was mortified.

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