To be honest I don't even know what Iron Man training is but it sounds very butch and sweaty.

She has Irritable Bladder Syndrome and Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Both of which will lie dormant for months then she gets a flare. In a flare she's learned to not eat certain things at all and to do the ACV and it will usually die down in a few days. Gradually she starts eating the food triggers again and is OK. The IBS is more of a tricksy beast but most of the time she's OK. She doesn't like taking pills or any sort of meds and will always look to food/drink/herbs as cures with quite considerable success.

Best left to those weird men who like to look like Arnold Schwartzenegger! NOT attractive at all!

Iron Man competitions involve a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride and a 26.2 mile run. In that order WITHOUT A BREAK.

It sounds like just your thing

no they are lean and mean Twass it's basically a triathalon but with longer distances involved. Iron Man is really big as an event in Australia when i lived there you'd get iron man cards in the cereal boxes.

some iron man competitors

Are we allowed to swear in here? Fracking Well!

I was just think eeeewwwwgghh I wouldn't one of those in my breakfast cereal.

Then I opened the picture and I WOULD!!!!

I'll have the one in red - far left.

You can see why i was prepared to be really impressed if you were going to start competing in Iron Man competitions!

i used to stick the iron man cards in my diary because they made me laugh wegot nothing like that in english cereal

The tall one in the blue and yellow for me please

Whatever the outcome of the trials I have some lovely strong bottles with Grolsch type stoppers. Sadly its a bit late for making elderflower cordial or fizz but I might see what I can do with elder berries later this year.

I am really hoping they find it is efficacous in the inflammation trials. It would be lovely to get a weight loss but to be honest I went into the trial as a curious sceptic and now that we are three weeks in my atitude has shifted only a little. I am now a wryly amused sceptic.

I'll be really interested in the results An, in the meantime keep me updated with your Iron Man training

it's like quality street
a little something for everyone

I'm spoilt for choice! My dentist's wife does Ironman competitions.

The cider vinegar discussion is fascinating - my dear dad had a couple of spoons every day, he believed it did him good. He made it to almost 90, his bp, cholesterol etc. was always perfect.

Hi tk how are you doing?

ooo the evidence is stacking up in favour of cider vinegar!

Hi p, I'm fine. Busy with my visitors, which is lovely. Have got them hooked on bb!

Think I might start taking the cider vinegar, it can't do any harm surely?

Is twass gallivanting again

YES!!!! Just got to mini twass's flat in North London. She's not back from evening college class yet. Home on Sunday. Woohooo!!!!

Glad to hear all well tk. I'm getting quite interested in this cider vinegar thing too will have a read around...anythingexciting happened in BB


Hope you both have a lovely time!!!

Ta muchly. She's on the tube, nearly home!!

Have a lovely time twass!!

Have found my baseline stats.

Lipid tests were
TG 4.94
HDL 2.29
TG .81
CLDL 2.28

And the glucose tolerance numbers were

After 14 hour fast 4.6
30 mins after disgusting sweet drink 8.6
after another 30 mins 7.4
after 90 mins 5.7
after 2 hours 4.8

I was assured these were normal although the phlebotomist said I was very sensitive to glucose and I wasn't sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing - but he said I had nothing to worry about on that score.

They also did a calculation of heart age which calculated my heart to be 8 years younger than I am. So what I was using during infancy and early childhood I have no idea. I am rather sceptical there too. It was a statistical calculation and I expect it would have been very different 12 month ago. Then I had been smoking for 25 years. But on the day I did the tests for this trial I had given up a year and 8 days before! Apparently a year is a milestone for an ex smoker and cardio vascular risk.

I will let you know what changes on August 13th or thereabouts

Oh to be a lady of leisure. Have a lovely time.

[quote=planets;82778648]Glad to hear all well tk. I'm getting quite interested in this cider vinegar thing too will have a read around...anythingexciting happened in BB


Oooohhaarggh I can't even begin! Hot tubs and everything.

Sorry for messy quote, doing too many things at once

oh good lord i don't even want to guess...

no worries i knew what you meant!!

there just needs to be a [/quote] after where my post finishes and yours starts!