Halloween and toothy scariness

[andrewducker]

Friday - was in a talk from 2-4 that overran, meaning that I got less time in the office afterwards than I hoped - dashed off promptly, hit home, helped Erin with a technical problem and made it to the station at 6:32. Got on the 7:00 train and was at Scott/Rob's place for 8:40 to watch Halloween videos. Mostly hung out in the kitchen and chatted to people randomly. Flirted with Rob's girlfriend's friend, which was great fun, even if nothing was meant by it. Went home to old flat at 3am and slept on the sofa (Hugh/Meredith grabbing the bed).

Slept badly (dreams of spiders and tiny crawling insects punctuated by waking up having slid halfway down the back of the sofa) but still felt largely awake when I awoke at 11. Had gorgeous breakfast of pancakes, sausages, bacon and Maple Syrup (cheers Joe) and chatted to him and Gemma before waking St up, signing legal papers to sell him my half of the flat and dissappearing back to Edinburgh (pausing briefly to chat to Gordon). Myself and Joe talked about all sorts of cool stuff on the way to Edinburgh and then met up with Ed to see Holes. Holes was truly magical - a proper kids film that never patronised - proper review later.

Then off to Lilian's to help with Zine. Battery on phone was dead by this point, and Lilian had wandered out, so her flatmate let me in and I lounged about reading PC-Pro until she returned, then helped her set up her scanner and scanned stuff before grabbing food. While eating soft chinese food, a chunk of my far back right-hand tooth came off (I could see both inside and outside). No real pain from it, so I assume the inside is dead. Feel vaguely miffed at dentist for not discovering that this was going to happen when I saw him two weeks ago. Am going to make emergency appointment on Monday.

And now to bed, having realised that the above is garbles by tiredness.

Hope you're all well, I'll read your journals later!

Comments

[broin.livejournal.com]

"While eating soft chinese food, a chunk of my far back right-hand tooth"

Atkins, dude.

It makes you smelly, and kills your teeth.

[andrewducker]

Sigh.

It's the tooth that's had repair work done on it about 6 times in the last decade and has become slowly more filling than tooth.

[andrewducker]

http://www.dentalcomfortzone.com/archive/AtkinsDiet.html

There's certainly a potential problem for people on the initial phase of the diet for long periods, but that's true of any diet that causes ketosis, which is anything that causes weight loss.

But then seeing as anyone actually following the atkins diet is taking vitamin/mineral supplements, there shouldn't be a problem there.

[gld199.livejournal.com]

Don't you know when you're being teased? =)

I suggested that there must be some connection between leaving your toothbrush here and your tooth breaking the next day. But Joe thought an Atkins joke would be funnier.

Do you want us to post your toothbrush to you?

[andrewducker]

Sorry, I'm over-sensitive on the subject, having been harrassed just a teeny bit too much. Atkins is one of those things that people seem to be happy to attack based on information they heard down the pub (for instance the kidney problem one - it's true that if you don't get enough water and have a high ratio of protein to carbs that you'll have problems, but that's why the Atkins diet specifically tells you to drink 2 litrs of water a day, something I haven't found hard). Ahem, anyway, yeah, I tend to overreact. Sorry.

And yes please. Sorry about leaving it with you.

[gld199.livejournal.com]

It's on its way back to you.

Er... Joe wrapped it.

[broin.livejournal.com]

So then Atkins isn't a long-term diet?

Or rather, if it's supposed to be a 'return to the caveman' diet, how do the supplements fit in?

And I'm not dissing the diet based on 'things I heard down the pub'. I'm basing it on nutritional information and Dr A coming across as a creepy, fame-obsessed quack.

[andrewducker]

It is long-term, but it's got two phases - induction and maintenance. Induction is the one that you hear most about, because it's really low carb, but that's not supposed to last more than a few weeks. Once you're losing weight you're supposed to slowly start adding carbs back in(albeit ones that aren't refined, so wholemeal bread, etc.) until you reach a stable level.

And "neanderthin" is the diet that's a return to the caveman style. Atkins is just a low-carb one. It's frequently justified by the fact that our bodies aren't 'designed' for high levels of high-glycemic-index foods, such as white bread, pasta, etc., but that's not it's base rationale.

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

Hey as you're likely to be distracted tonight - there';s an Atkins Money Programme on tonight. B2 I think..

[kpollock.livejournal.com]

sympathy. I typed a huge post on how this typically happens, then forgot to put my username in anand it got eaten by the ether. Ask your dentist.

I hope you are feeling quite flush - crowns are expensive even on the NHS (never mind the ultra tough hand made custom coloured in 2 colours that I insisted on - £600+ ..... I'm SO vain). You might luck out with a HUGE filling.

[missedith01.livejournal.com]

Ack. I cracked a filling on Friday. See - nothing to do with Atkins ... it's a phase of the moon affecting millions! Or something.