Haven't quite yet lost the war!

ad ho·mi·nem   [ad hom-uh-nuhm]¹
adjective
1. appealing to one's prejudices, emotions, or special interests rather than to one's intellect or reason.
2. attacking an opponent's character rather than answering his argument.

I understand the definition to mean that when I say "Edie, I think you're wrong because..." I am providing a reasoned argument to why I think he's wrong. When Edie says "I think you're wrong because you're a retard!"' he's lost the battle.

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¹Ad hominem. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged. Retrieved January 28, 2012, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Ad hominem

Who's that trip-trapping?

Here's an opportunity to discuss your favourite troll and why? No prizes for the most witty comment, but plenty of kudos nonetheless.

There just aren't enough steps in the day

One of my new years resolutions was to take my walking a bit more seriously. We are advised that we should be aiming to complete around 10,000 steps a day. That's easy I thought to myself, I must do that everyday just walking around the office from meeting to meeting as I do.

I've got an app on my 'phone that purports to be a pedometer and as I carry the damned thing around with me wherever I go (one of the perils of being such a popular person), I enabled the app.

Here are the statistics from the 16^th December onwards when started my Christmas leave, I returned to work on the 3^rd January.

Date	Steps	Calories	Mileage
	287,816	20,889	163.5
16/12/2011	12,392	899	7.0
17/12/2011	12,622	916	7.2
18/12/2011	14,280	1,037	8.1
19/12/2011	13,793	1,001	7.8
20/12/2011	14,372	1,043	8.2
21/12/2011	10,699	777	6.1
22/12/2011	12,681	919	7.2
23/12/2011	16,956	1,230	9.6
24/12/2011	14,799	1,074	8.4
25/12/2011	12,938	939	7.4
26/12/2011	12,252	889	7.0
27/12/2011	15,256	1,107	8.7
28/12/2011	11,300	820	6.4
29/12/2011	15,762	1,144	9.0
30/12/2011	9,986	725	5.7
31/12/2011	11,988	870	6.8
01/01/2012	11,233	815	6.4
02/01/2012	9,642	699	5.5
03/01/2012	4,787	347	2.7
04/01/2012	7,459	541	4.2
05/01/2012	6,912	501	3.9
06/01/2012	4,614	335	2.6
07/01/2012	11,329	821	6.4
08/01/2012	9,211	668	5.2
09/01/2012	10,553	772	6.0

That's right folks, first the highlights. In 25 days I've walked over 160 miles (based on the assumption that one of my strides is approximately 3 feet and that there are still 1760 yards in an imperial mile), that's an average of 6.5 miles a day (or 11,355 steps). I've made 283,863 steps and burned 20,263 calories (according to my pedometer).

I quite enjoyed the 23^rd December, that was our Christmas food shopping day and did we walk, yes we did...around three different supermarkets just to get everything we wanted - and then carried the shopping home - none of this driving around to the corner shop malarkey for us. It's likely that I burned more than 1,230 calories that day because of the weight training I was doing!

But what really surprised me was how little walking I do during the business day, I had convinced myself that I was walking well in excess of 10,000 steps/day. So I was concerned to discover that I wasn't even achieving 5,000 steps. So I've had to revise my new years resolution and I'm now catching up on the missing 6000 or so at the beginning and end of each working day.

On a slightly different note, I'd been making the pate recipe with defrosted chicken livers, this weekend I found some fresh chicken livers - and I can thoroughly recommend using the fresh over frozen - a completely different taste

Introductions

It has come to our notice that people want to put faces to our names, so here goes. I'm the one on the left, and Carbs United isn't.

Hosting a dinner party?

Spotted this interesting idea for a dinner party menu. Wondered what people thought?

Field mouse meatballs
Mashed tuna eye
Slug gravy
Cow bird cake

I found a recipe for mouse meatballs, here

I guess this is what they mean by slug gravy.

In Japan, apparently tuna eye can be bought quite cheaply.

Presumably then you can use this product in making a cow bird cake.

Kinky Cake

I'm sure you'll all love this one

Ingredients

140g polystyrene
60g re-extruded foam scrap
1.6g nucleating agent
5ml food colouring - yellow

Instructions
Mix everything together :) and cook at a very high temperature until everything is melted, take out of the oven and allow to cool. We've found this cake best served with whipped cream and mandarin segments.

Define Success

This Jimmy Moore blog entry gives a retelling of Jimmy's struggle with his weight. After eight years following a low carb diet, Jimmy's weight has dropped from 410 lbs (186 kg) to 280 lbs (127 kg). I think that's an achievement that deserves congratulations, it's a real victory and demonstrates what determination can do for you.

When my diabetes was diagnosed I weighed in at slightly less than Jimmy. Today? I weigh in at slightly less than Jimmy, it's a real victory and demonstrates what determination can do for you.

So is Jimmy's success any different than mine? I don't believe so, I believe we both deserve a hearty slap on the back for being weight loss heroes.

I don't believe that any one diet is better than any other, in fact I believe that you'll find this statement repeated throughout this blog.

Canonisation?

The things I have to do to get noticed!

This little ditty caught my eye as well.