Poker Media Mid Life Crisis

[DaveShoelace]

Yep totally wimped out from going to DTD today shaking off a hangover. I hadn't had a hangover in 18 months, but have had two in about six weeks, both on relatively tame night's out with Frasier.

Great fun last night, a few of my mates were quite skeptical of Caribbean food going into it, but every single plate was empty at the end of the night.

[Tal]

Have the Rolling Stones killed...

[DaveShoelace]

Caffeine withdrawal.

About a year ago I went to the hospital with really bad palpitations, had an ECG and everything. It was in no small part to the amount of tea and coffee I drink. I switched to decaffe, then only had coffee in the morning, then gradually switched back to having tea in a normal manner.

They came back a few days ago. I realise that slowly and unwittingly I had started to replace that tea hit for diet coke (probs in part because its been quite warm). So now I am officially ditching the diet coke and currently three days without any caffeine of any kind. Diet coke is really crappy for you in other ways anyway, so its a good move.

I could barely stay awake yesterday, and the headaches from a caffeine withdrawal are really intense. I am going to allow myself a cup of Joe today, but that's it for the diet cokes.

[Tal]

No tea and no diet coke make Tal something something...

[DaveShoelace]

I have a lovely week ahead of me, as most of my 'next door' colleagues in Gibraltar are away most of the week for a team building event.

I love all of them, they are both lovely people and talented colleagues - but having a few days of not being distracted by emails and the ping ping of skype is going to be heaven. Apparantly half of most us sedentary types working week is spent on emails, and I find whenever I can shut them out completely I get twice as much work done.

[RED-DOG]

Caffeine withdrawal.

About a year ago I went to the hospital with really bad palpitations, had an ECG and everything. It was in no small part to the amount of tea and coffee I drink. I switched to decaffe, then only had coffee in the morning, then gradually switched back to having tea in a normal manner.

They came back a few days ago. I realise that slowly and unwittingly I had started to replace that tea hit for diet coke (probs in part because its been quite warm). So now I am officially ditching the diet coke and currently three days without any caffeine of any kind. Diet coke is really crappy for you in other ways anyway, so its a good move.

I could barely stay awake yesterday, and the headaches from a caffeine withdrawal are really intense. I am going to allow myself a cup of Joe today, but that's it for the diet cokes.

I drink a fair amount of diet Coke. Wassup with it?

[tonytats]

A KILLER IN YOUR FRIDGE

SWEET POISON..A MUST READ !!!

In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick She had stomach spasms and she was having a hard time getting around. Walking was a major chore. It took everything she had just to get out of bed; she was in so much pain.

By March 2002, she had undergone several tissue and muscle biopsies and was on 24 various prescription medications. The doctors could not determine what was wrong with her. She was in so much pain, and so sick she just knew she was dying.

She put her house, bank accounts, life insurance, etc., in her oldest daughter's name, and made sure that her younger children were to be taken care of.

She also wanted her last hooray, so she planned a trip to Florida (basically in a wheelchair) for March 22nd.

On March 19, I called her to ask how her most recent tests went, and she said they didn't find anything on the test, but they believe she had MS.

I recalled an article a friend of mine e-mailed to me and I asked my sister if she drank diet soda? She told me that she did. As a matter of fact, she was getting ready to crack one open that moment.

I told her not to open it, and to stop drinking the diet soda! I e-mailed her an article my friend, a lawyer, had sent. My sister called me within 32 hours after our phone conversation and told me she had stopped drinking the diet soda AND she could walk! The muscle spasms went away. She said she didn't feel 100% but, she sure felt a lot better.

She told me she was going to her doctor with this article and would call me when she got home.

Well, she called me, and said her doctor was amazed! He is going to call all of his MS patients to find out if they consumed artificial sweeteners of any kind. In a nutshell, she was being poisoned by the Aspartame in the diet soda.. and literally dying a slow and miserable death

When she got to Florida March 22, all she had to take was one pill, and that was a pill for the Aspartame poisoning! She is well on her way to a complete recovery. And she is walking! No wheelchair! This article saved her life.If it says 'SUGAR FREE' on the label; DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!I have spent several days lecturing at the WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE on 'ASPARTAME,' marketed as'Nutra Sweet,' 'Equal,' and 'Spoonful.'In the keynote address by the EPA, it was announced that in the United States in 2001 there is an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus. It was difficult to determine exactly what toxin was causing this to be rampant. I stood up and said that I was there to lecture on exactly that subject.

I will explain why Aspartame is so dangerous: When the temperature of this sweetener exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in ASPARTAME converts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic acidosis. Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire ants. The methanol toxicity mimics, among other conditions, multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus.

Many people were being diagnosed in error. Although multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, Methanol toxicity is!

Systemic lupus has become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis, especially with Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers.The victim usually does not know that the Aspartame is the culprit. He or she continues its use; irritating the lupus to such a degree that it may become a life-threatening condition. We have seen patients with systemic lupus become asymptotic, once taken off diet sodas.

In cases of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, most of the symptoms disappear. We've seen many cases where vision loss returned and hearing loss improved markedly.

This also applies to cases of tinnitus and fibromyalgia. During a lecture, I said, 'If you are using ASPARTAME (Nutra Sweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc) and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms, shooting, pains, numbness in your legs,
Cramps,
Vertigo,
Dizziness,
Headaches,
Tinnitus,
Joint pain,
Unexplainable depression, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss you probably have ASPARTAME poisoning!' People were jumping up during the lecture saying,'I have some of these symptoms. Is it reversible?'

Yes!
Yes!
Yes!
STOP drinking diet sodas and be alert for Aspartame on food labels! Many products are fortified with it! This is a serious problem. Dr. Espart (one of my speakers) remarked that so many people seem to be symptomatic for MS and during his recent visit to a hospice; a nurse stated that six of her friends, who were heavy Diet Coke addicts, had all been diagnosed with MS. This is beyond coincidence!

Diet soda is NOT a diet product! It is a chemically altered, multiple SODIUM (salt) and ASPARTAME containing product that actually makes you crave carbohydrates.

It is far more likely to make you GAIN weight!

These products also contain formaldehyde, which stores in the fat cells, particularly in the hips and thighs. Formaldehyde is an absolute toxin and is used primarily to preserve 'tissue specimens.'

Many products we use every day contain this chemical but we SHOULD NOT store it IN our body!

Dr. H. J. Roberts stated in his lectures that once free of the 'diet products' and with no significant increase in exercise; his patients lost an average of 19 pounds over a trial period.Aspartame is especially dangerous for diabetics. We found that some physicians, who believed that they had a patient with retinopathy, in fact, had symptoms caused by Aspartame. The Aspartame drives the blood sugar out of control. Thus diabetics may suffer acute memory loss due to the fact that aspartic acid and phenylalanine are NEUROTOXIC when taken without the other amino acids necessary for a good balance.

Treating diabetes is all about BALANCE.. Especially with diabetics, the Aspartame passes the blood/brain barrier and it then deteriorates the neurons of the brain; causing various levels of brain damage, Seizures, Depression, Manic depression, Panic attacks, Uncontrollable anger and rage.Consumption of Aspartame causes these same symptoms in non-diabetics as well. Documentation and observation also reveal that thousands of children diagnosed with ADD and ADHD have had complete turnarounds in their behavior when these chemicals have been removed from their diet.

So called 'behavior modification prescription drugs' (Ritalin and others) are no longer needed.Truth be told, they were never NEEDED in the first place!Most of these children were being 'poisoned' on a daily basis with the very foods that were 'better for them than sugar.'It is also suspected that the Aspartame in thousands of pallets of diet Coke and diet Pepsi consumed by men and women fighting in the Gulf War, may be partially to blame for the well-known Gulf War Syndrome.

Dr. Roberts warns that it can cause birth defects, i.e. mental retardation, if taken at the time of conception and during early pregnancy. Children are especially at risk for neurological disorders and should NEVER be given artificial sweeteners.

There are many different case histories to relate of children suffering grand mal seizures and other neurological disturbances talking about a plague of neurological diseases directly caused by the use of this deadly poison.'

Herein lies the problem: There were Congressional Hearings when Aspartame was included in 100 different products and strong objection was made concerning its use. Since this initial hearing, there have been two subsequent hearings, and still nothing has been done. The drug and chemical lobbies have very deep pockets.

Sadly, MONSANTO'S patent on Aspartame has EXPIRED! There are now over 5,000 products on the market that contain this deadly chemical and there will be thousands more introduced. Everybody wants a 'piece of the Aspartame pie.'I assure you that MONSANTO, the creator of Aspartame, knows how deadly it is.

And isn't it ironic that MONSANTO funds, among others, the American Diabetes Association, the American Dietetic Association and the Conference of the American College of Physicians?

This has been recently exposed in the New York Times. These [organizations] cannot criticize any additives or convey their link to MONSANTO because they take money from the food industry and are required to endorse their products.Senator Howard Metzenbaum wrote and presented a bill that would require label warnings on products containing Aspartame, especially regarding pregnant women, children and infants.

The bill would also institute independent studies on the known dangers and the problems existing in the general population regarding seizures, changes in brain chemistry, neurological changes and behavioural symptoms.
The bill was killed.It is known that the powerful drug and chemical lobbies are responsible for this, letting loose the hounds of disease and death on an unsuspecting and uninformed public. Well, you're informed now!

Please print this out and/or e-mail to your family and friends.
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[technolog]

I find the credibility of such articles to be inversely proportional to the number of exclamation points contained within. Interesting nonetheless.

[tonytats]

I figured it was on Facebook and its American so it's probably 90% shite

[tikay]

Interesting article, thanks Sid.

[DaveShoelace]

Mrs Shoelace is a bit ill at the moment. She has an over active thyroid, which is causing her to wake up in the middle of the night with severe hunger pangs and feeling really weak. Its quite common in women apparantly and according to the Docs it could be much worse, as hers is only on the cusp of being overactive. We are both a bit knackered though as we keep having our sleep interrupted and we have to wait almost a month before she can start to get it treated.

I used to function brilliantly on little to no sleep, now if even the slighest thing disrupts my nap the following day is a real struggle.

[Acidmouse]

Mrs Shoelace is a bit ill at the moment. She has an over active thyroid, which is causing her to wake up in the middle of the night with severe hunger pangs and feeling really weak. Its quite common in women apparantly and according to the Docs it could be much worse, as hers is only on the cusp of being overactive. We are both a bit knackered though as we keep having our sleep interrupted and we have to wait almost a month before she can start to get it treated.

I used to function brilliantly on little to no sleep, now if even the slighest thing disrupts my nap the following day is a real struggle.

prefect training for kids....not had a sleep in or proper sleep for 4 years...

[kinboshi]

Interesting article, thanks Sid.

LOL

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.asp

[vegaslover]

Mrs Shoelace is a bit ill at the moment. She has an over active thyroid, which is causing her to wake up in the middle of the night with severe hunger pangs and feeling really weak. Its quite common in women apparantly and according to the Docs it could be much worse, as hers is only on the cusp of being overactive. We are both a bit knackered though as we keep having our sleep interrupted and we have to wait almost a month before she can start to get it treated.

I used to function brilliantly on little to no sleep, now if even the slighest thing disrupts my nap the following day is a real struggle.

prefect training for kids....not had a sleep in or proper sleep for 4 years...

^^^^This, best start planning the nursery Barry

[DaveShoelace]

Weighed in at 14st 8 3/4lb, which is about a 2 1/2lb loss after about 9 days. Aiming to smash a 6lb loss in total by the first week in October. 

Happy enough, I have been careful with what I eat and have really enjoyed the gym so far. Also been taking the dog on longer walks.

Haven't restricted myself food wise or eaten anything I didn't want to eat. I have a weekend away in London which will be a bit of a test, however part of that will involve running around shooting paint at people so at least there will be some exercise.

I'm trying to change my habits, otherwise this weight will just come back. Currently trying to eat slower by putting my fork down on the plate with every mouthful. Inspired by this video which is really worth the hour investment:

And just so I have even more accountability, here are my starting stats from yesterday:

Weight - 94kg (I'm 5ft 10" btw)

Stomach  - 43.5"

Belt line 43.5"

Chest 44"

Body fat - 20.3% - 21.8%

The aim is to lose 6lbs and three inches (combined across the three measurements in any order) by October 7th.