Posts in the Me category

So this one is mainly off the shelf bits and pieces, unlike Darci's way more awesome WPC costume (which she'd probably be arrested for wearing in the UK for impersonating a police officer). (more...)

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So I have said on a number of occasions that I have a rich butter slurry running through my veins. Yep, I have bad cholesterol – although it’s been improving over the past year, to the point where it’s still high but at least the HDL/LDL ratio is getting better. Mainly by doing – so far as I can tell – three things:

• Switching from Half & Half in coffee to Whole Milk at home and 2% milk at work
• Losing weight (which surprisingly mostly happened due to the first change, and removing sugar from my coffee)
• Reducing the amount of carbs that I eat

I haven’t shifted to a low fat diet (how exactly do you do that and have a low carb diet and eat nothing but roasted turkey/fish and spinach… not that I’m opposed to that, but…?)

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Not usually one for the explicit fanboi cosplay kinda thing, but this year Darci and I are going as Amy Pond (Policewoman kissogram costume) and Rory Williams (Roman Centurion).

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So a while back I had my genes sequenced by 23andme (I got Darci’s sequenced too), and given that I’m starting to really worry about my long term heart disease prospects (thanks, genes), I decided to start digging into the details.

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