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Gary Patterson, coach of the third-ranked TCU Horned Frogs, will be at ESPN's studios in Bristol, Conn., Friday before heading to Chicago for an on-set appearance at GameDay outside Wrigley Field.
"You won't see me beat my chest," Patterson said during his Tuesday media luncheon. "I'll state the case of what TCU has to offer; the culmination of what we've done the last six years. Sometimes that gets lost."
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Five days before the deadline, Economy Minister Axel Kicillof remained defiant in a fiery speech before the UN ambassadors to the Group of 77 developing nations on Wednesday, saying complying with the ruling would send his country's economy into a tailspin.
The court-appointed mediator, Daniel A. Pollack, said he met with lawyers for the two sides on Tuesday but "no resolution has been reached" after several hours.
Kicillof said Argentina would make no decisions until US District Judge Thomas Griesa rules on the request for a stay.
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Kicillof said complying with the ruling would swiftly lead to lawsuits from other bondholders who were not part of the debt swap, saddling Argentina with another $15bn in debt payments. And eventually, he said, creditors who did join the swap could also sue to demand at least $120bn in payments on the same terms.
Argentinian Foreign Minister Hector Timerman said the G-77 threw its support behind Argentina, resolving to send a protest letter to US District Judge Thomas Griesa.
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Miranda Seymour, biographer of Mary Shelley and Robert Graves, is not the kind of person to take offence at being described as a bluestocking. Why would she? She loves libraries and dusty documents, and is adept at talking to old ladies about what she calls their 'intimate memories'. A bad day is one in which she does not write at least 1,000 words before the cocktail hour. But Seymour (pronounced, with firecracker vigour, to rhyme with the capital of Peru) has another life, too. On Friday nights, she zips up the M1 in her Ford Focus to a Nottinghamshire village called Thrumpton. Nottinghamshire, hunkered as it is between north and south, is not a glamorous county; it is not, perhaps, where most of literary London might choose to spend the weekend (unless, of course, they were unfashionable enough to be on a DH Lawrence tour). But she has no choice. In 1994, she inherited a property here. Though not as big as nearby Chatsworth, Thrumpton Hall is a grand house, and a lovely one. The carved Charles II staircase is a triumph. It is really not the kind of place that its owner, however severe her deadlines, can very easily ignore.
In fact, Thrumpton Hall - aka The House - dominated Seymour's life long before she owned it. Her father, George FitzRoy Seymour, who inherited it from an uncle, devoted his life to preserving Thrumpton at a time when, just after the war, most landed families were signing over their great piles to the National Trust (either that, or auctioning off the contents, then burning them to the ground) - and his daughter could never compete with it when it came to his affections.
This made for a difficult childhood. George Seymour was a control freak, capricious and cruel - a man who, though he did not have a title himself, was determined that his wife and children conform to the idealised stereotype of an aristocratic family that he carried around in his head. When Miranda, 58, was a girl, this obsession with appearances seemed to be a consequence only of his snobbery. Later, she came to see it in a rather different light. In late middle age, her father took to riding round the countryside on a motorbike, his sole companion an illiterate young man he'd first met in Leicester Square. In his way, he seemed finally to have found freedom - happiness, even. It was not to be. When George died in 1994, he was suffering from cancer. A more accurate description of his cause of death might have been 'broken heart'.
It has taken his writer daughter a while to process this strange story - more than a decade, in fact. But now she has, in the form of a thrilling and unblinking memoir called In My Father's House. It's an extraordinary book - the kind that people gossip about late into the night (which, perhaps, is why it is selling rather better than the average literary biography). Some of its revelations are so startling, they made me gasp. Prurience, however, will take you only so far. The book is also a vivid portrait of England at a time of huge change. In the 1960s, the M1 was extended, minutes from Thrumpton's magnificent arched gates. Soon after, to George's lasting horror, a massive power station was built at the edge of Thrumpton's parkland; the cooling towers loom like sentinels over the landscape still. Seymour records all of this without sentiment, nor even much regret. She understands that they are part of England, too. No wonder, then, that the critics have fallen in love with her book. But there's something else. It's as though, in screwing up the courage to reveal her father's double life, she has released something in herself. Biographers are always beady types, but In My Father's House reveals that Seymour is not only a seeker after the truth; she is ruthless to boot. For here's the most surprising fact of all: Seymour's 85-year-old mother, Rosemary, who endured nearly 50 years of marriage to George with quiet stoicism and the utmost discretion, is alive and well and living at Thrumpton.
When I get to Thrumpton, which both lives up to my fantasies (oh, the crunch of tyres on gravel!) and reminds me of how very middle class I am (it's bloody freezing - where's the central heating?), Seymour introduces me to Rosemary. She is young for her years and unexpectedly smiley - beatific, almost - given the circumstances. Later, I tell her that I loved her daughter's book. 'Yes, it is good, isn't it?' she says. I can't get over this. So, after Miranda has taken me on a tour of the house, from rose-panelled saloon, scene of one of George's nastiest outbursts, to the nursery floor which terrified children used to believe was haunted by a ruined servant girl who'd hanged herself, I ask her about it. Hasn't her mother read the book? After all, she appears in it, not only as a wife and mother but as a widow, too - a widow who is not especially keen on her daughter's plan to stick her beak into private matters.
'It's not as if you'd be writing one of your biographies,' she says, at one point. 'He's your father.'
'Was,' replies Miranda, fiercely. 'Was.'
Seymour takes a deep breath. 'I decided that she wasn't going to see it until it couldn't be altered,' she says (we are sitting in a flagged hall by the fire, drinking red wine; a clock ticks, and it's just like being in a movie). 'Which was a big, big risk. But that's what writers are like. I thought I was an especially nice kind of writer, and I do have my ethics, but it's my book, not my mother's book, and I'm not even going to apologise for it. It's a better book because of it.'
In the end, her mother read it last Christmas. Too late to make any changes. She went to her Wimpole Street flat (given to her for the duration of her lifetime by the de Walden estate; Rosemary is the daughter of the 8th Baron de Walden, which might, her daughter has suggested, be one reason why George Seymour found her so attractive) and told Miranda not to disturb her. 'She rang me at six. "Well, I've had a strong glass of whisky," she said. "And I'm depressed." My heart sank. "There are two things you got wrong," she said. "I never had freckles, and my nail varnish may have been chipped some of the time, but not all the time." I asked her about what I'd written about my father. "Well, it's true, isn't it?" she said. It was as though I'd become the witness bearer.'
Seymour was relieved; her mother had already been through so much. And they had become close in the years while Miranda had been writing. 'At the time, I had no husband, so the fact was, I was spending weekend after weekend alone with my mother. That was when I thought I'd start talking to her properly. I found myself not exactly seducing my mother, but being manipulative - albeit in a very loving way. We'd sit in the kitchen with a couple of candles, and a glass of wine or two - there's a nice cellar here - and I'd ask her questions. Still, I thought: what to do about her? Her policy had always been discretion, and here was I about to do the opposite. But the minute I put her in the book, it was like a magic trick. It seemed to write itself.'
In My Father's House begins with George Seymour's falling in love with Thrumpton as a small and rather priggish boy. His father was a diplomat, but La Paz, where he had been posted, was not thought a suitable home for a child. So George was sent to live with his mother's childless sister, Anna, and her husband, Lord Byron, at their home in Nottinghamshire. George fell for Thrumpton immediately. He determined that, as an adult, he would be its custodian and take care of its tenants; in letters, written as he grew older, he would refer to the house as one would a lover. 'Dear Thrumpton, how I miss you tonight,' he wrote in 1944, at the age of 21. But the course of true love did not run smooth. Periodically, his parson uncle would decide that his heir should be a Byron. It seemed the best that George could hope for would be a lifetime's tenancy. Then, in 1949, Charlie Byron died. Byron had not done enough to safeguard Thrumpton's future. The tax bills raised by his death were vast. The house would have to be sold. Knowing how he loved it, the trustees made George an offer: it was his for £50,000, and he had a year to find the money.
By this point, George had married Rosemary. In her book, his daughter hints that a major part of Rosemary's appeal for George, besides her posh lineage, was the fact that her father was also a rich man. But the Baron de Walden had died soon after the marriage, without leaving proper provision for his daughter. There was only one thing for it: the newlyweds would have to borrow. So that is what they did. At first, things were tough. Their rate of interest was high, and the house very run down. Land was sold, tourists invited to visit at 24 pence a throw. But, while the financial situation slowly improved, George soon realised that being in possession of his holy grail didn't necessarily bring with it other much longed-for rewards. 'The glorious aristocracy, about which he knew so much, did not perceive the new owner of Thrumpton Hall as one of themselves,' writes Seymour, waspishly. He was snubbed and, in due course, repaid his snobbish acquaintances in kind. On one occasion, he bid against one in an auction, deliberately pushing up the price of a cherished family portrait. The great schism in his personality was beginning to open up. Outwardly, he adopted the trappings and obligations of squireship. He was the lord of the manor! But behind closed doors, the mask was starting to slip.
He could be so spiteful. He made the teenage Miranda feel unhappy and self-conscious about her weight, and insisted, after she'd cut her hair short, that she wear a wig; this she duly did, day and night, until her own hair began to fall out. She and her brother were encouraged to gang up against their mother, humiliating her in a family ritual called the Charm Game. Rosemary was expected to wear tweed, and always to cover her body (retrospectively, one can see that George had a deep-seated dislike of, even revulsion for, exposed female flesh). At a Hall party, she appeared in a beautiful low-cut mermaid dress, bought at Miranda's behest. In front of the assembled guests, George shouted at her to get changed immediately. Even once Miranda was an adult, and had begun to publish novels, she could not gain his approval; he once threw one of her books out of the window in disgust.
Then, all change. Perhaps the first sign of what was to come was when Slav came to work at the House. Slav was an Ethiopian, who claimed to have been castrated and sold as a slave in Addis Ababa. Bought by an Englishman and taken to Southport, he had then escaped. Slav liked to stroll the grounds of Thrumpton wearing nothing but a tiny loincloth, the better to show off his magnificent body - a form of exhibitionism to which George Seymour did not object. 'I watched Slav strolling to and fro across the lawns,' writes Seymour. 'Sometimes, looking past him to the House, I would see a shadow etched on one of the library blinds. Behind it, my father sat at his desk, writing a letter or, perhaps, simply gazing at the figure on the lawn.'
In 1964, George bought a Norton motorbike. To help him with this, he befriended Nick, the bike-loving son of a local shopkeeper. Miranda didn't like Nick; nor did she like the fact that her father was spending so much time away from her mother. She wrote to her father, and told him so. In his reply, he said that his 'trouble' came from the fact that he 'retained a zest for doing things more suitable to people much younger than I', which was certainly one way of putting it.
Visiting Miranda at her then home on Corfu, George insisted that he and Nick share a room. In 1975, however, this friendship ended when Nick announced that he was to be married - news that George responded to with hot tears. The joint biking expeditions finally came to an end. 'Our family sat as if watching a clock,' writes Seymour. 'All of us, anxiously, simply watching. And waiting.'
And so, to Robbie, the love of George's life. In 1980, the two men met in Leicester Square. Robbie, then just 18, was awed by George's description of his new bike, a Ducatti, and they began to spend time together, at first in London - Rosemary was surprised by how much time George was suddenly devoting to his voluntary work as chairman of the Juvenile Magistrates Court - and later in Thrumpton. Evenings would follow a regular pattern. Rosemary would cook supper for the two men, and then they would don their leathers and disappear for the rest of the night. If she thought this odd, or suspicious, or even hurtful, she knew better than to say so.
The relationship endured, surviving even Robbie's marriage to a woman called Della (George stood as best man). In 1992, after her brother, Thomas, had faced financial losses through investment in Lloyds, Miranda became, at a single stroke, the heir to Thrumpton. It was made clear to her, however, that once her father had gone, there would be a cuckoo in the nest. George begged her always to provide Robbie with a home. Is this what she would have done? We shall never know. Robbie did not outlive George - to find out how he died you must read her book; all I can say here is that it was an achingly sad end - and her father spent his last years in a prolonged convulsion of sorrow.
'The paternal tyrant had become a weeping and apologetic child,' writes Seymour. 'We sat in silence at meals where my father, pushing his plate away, leaned forward, rocking his head in his hands, attempting to shield from sight the tears that never stopped falling.' Perhaps, then, his death came as a relief. Certainly, it was Robbie's photograph that he seemed to want to clutch in his final unseeing hours. As he slipped away, Rosemary did not come to him. She stayed in her own part of the house.
In her memoir, Seymour writes that a tiny part of her was always in denial about her father. 'Am I too prudish to tolerate the thought that my father slept with boys? ... I don't know. But I may be the last person who clings, absurdly, to the faint possibility that my father was, until the end, a heterosexual.' Since her book was published, however, the truth has been unavoidable.
'Someone whom I've known all my life, looking quite calm and cheerful and about to offer me a cigarette, which is always a sign that a bonding moment is coming up, gave me a pretty unqualified chunk of evidence to show that there was no doubt whatsoever that my father was gay. This terribly nice person, who'd borne the burden of my father's disloyalty and who'd had to shut up about it, said: "Well, now it's out in the open ..."' She sips her wine. 'It probably seems silly how much I'd been protecting this little part of myself. But it felt quite dreadful. I was so upset. I was sick, literally sick, all day and all night, and I cried and I cried, and I felt dreadful most of last week. I couldn't work on my new book. I couldn't do anything.'
Has the truth made her look more kindly on her father? 'Yes. While I didn't accept it, I was more judgmental of him. Now I know it [his sexuality] was something he had to endure, it makes him far more sympathetic. I think of people of a younger generation who marry and then discover themselves to be gay, and their lives are so much better for having been honest. The great tragedy for my father, and for all of us, was his attempt to lead a double life, and to lie about it.' She faces the head of the table at which we're sitting. 'You'd sit here at tea, white cloth, bowl of shrimps, crumpets to toast, papa sitting there, ma sitting there, and Robbie in the middle, and he's allowed to do anything he likes, even smoke at the table. And yet he was also a secret that must never be let out.'
Does she feel guilty about the way she has exposed her father? After all, he is not able to answer back now. 'I know. But I think I've let him off quite a lot. I could have written a harder book than this. I can't think of a single place in the book where my father could stand in front of me and say: "You lied." My husband thinks he would have been furious with me for about two days and then oddly relieved. He was kind of daring us all the time: find me out, catch me! That time when I came back home and my father was prostrate on the sofa saying: "I love him! I love him!" Well, it was hardly hidden, was it? He half wanted people to know.' What about Robbie? Have her feelings about him changed? 'Not really. I hated him, but I also hated myself for hating him. I was ashamed of myself for hating someone who had none of my advantages. He was a sweet man. I still feel as sad as I have ever felt about that end. It did break my heart. Oh! It makes me want to cry now. It was real love. He [George] loved him like he'd never loved anybody else. That was what we couldn't bear. We'd never been shown love like that.'
Her brother has not read her book, and probably never will. 'He's a barrister. He's used to extreme precision. He would hate the impressionistic details.' Still, whether he reads it or not, she knows it is the biggest test their friendship has ever faced, and she is grateful to him that he just let her get on with it. 'I don't think he was terribly happy to hear I was writing it. I'm exhibitionist. He's very loyal, discreet, private. But he wasn't going to stop me. He knows I'm headstrong. I'd have done it anyway.' Weren't things more difficult when her father's will was first changed? 'I felt guilt-ridden. [After her father died] I wondered if we could divide it. It was Thomas who said, very definitely, you can't divide this house. It's either one of us or the other, and he's left it to you. Perhaps he also intuited that it would be easier for a daughter to live here than a daughter-in-law. Because the house dictates that it will always be the way it's always been. You can't really change it. Unless you were brought up here, that's incredibly frustrating.'
So Thrumpton, with all its ghosts, will one day pass to Miranda's son, Merlin. Or that's the idea. The estate is worth about £7 million; if Miranda did nothing, her son would one day be faced with a inheritance tax bill for some £2m. 'So you do life insurance, and you try to be a businesswoman [Thrumpton is now available for weddings and conferences].
But the time of stewardship has gone. If it comes to it, and Merlin feels this is too much for him, there will be a wonderful Mr Abramovich or somebody who will love this house and be able to afford it in a way we no longer can.' She and Rosemary love opening the house for weddings. They both feel that its rooms are best filled with people. What would her father have made of that? 'I think he'd be impressed. Though there'd probably be a few sniffy comments about the bride's bonnet. I don't think he'd join in as much as we do. We love to join in. He'd have gone off under a panama hat in the garden.'
This generous and straightforward attitude on the part of Seymour and her mother stands in stark contrast to the way they used to be. Her mother so mild and quiet, Miranda often seeming to be on the edge of hysteria (in her book, she describes how she threw potatoes at her father's weeping head; when this had no effect, she fell to her knees and bit the leg of the dining table, who knows why).
For Miranda, the load began to lighten as soon as her father died, though she has no sense of closure quite yet: 'I was hoping that writing would be therapy. I can't say that it has.' For her mother, it has taken rather longer. 'The book has made her very thoughtful,' says Seymour. 'She's changing before my eyes day by day. About a month ago, she was saying: "I was very weak." Now she's saying something much more truthful, which is: "I could not have left your father because I loved the house."' This is what Miranda still can't work out: why certain people need certain houses so very much. In principle, I know exactly what she means. But as I leave Thrumpton, with its library and its priest hole and its enticing secret passages, I can see with perfect clarity the hold it might have over a person.


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I've had trouble playing Ashe lately. I was pretty good before I hit level 30, but ever since then I've had trouble playing against other level 30s. I've noticed that I tend to play passively, sitting back and farming, then hitting the enemy ADC and support with my W if they get aggressive and then kite them to drive them out of the lane, then go back to farming. I try to avoid poking, and as a result, I'm not that good at trading with Ashe. I also tend to only push with her; I've never been good at freezing lanes, but I'm decent at farming while turret hugging.
The strange part is, I only seem to have trouble doing most of these things with Ashe. I can play aggressively with Vayne, Ezreal, Jinx, and Varus. I don't know what my problem is, but whenever I play with passive supports like Soraka we almost always lose the lane. Any advice for how to improve my Ashe play?
Ashe doesn't have a good kit to be aggressive with. Just farm like youa're doing. If you have an aggressive support you can maybe compliment him in lane a little if he's laying a good zone. I think ashe benefits more from peely/disengagy supports like Janna and Lulu. I'm not much of a bot lane wizard but these are just my two cents.
I don't usually start getting aggressive until I get a Shiv, but usually by that time the other ADC has pushed us out of lane and took a tower. Is it just that Ashe needs to be paired with an aggressive support that can initiate, or should I initiate with my ult regardless of the support? I personally like to save it until they're running away or for teamfights, but I can change my playstyle if I need to so that I'll be more of an asset to my support.
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Yes Ashe has a weak 1 v 1 early on. But, if you can force a 2 v 1 by making one opponent to go B, you win because Ashe is so strong with her permaslow when you have the advantage. You will at least deny experience. In some cases you can force the other to go B. Or if they're bad you'll get a kill. Just go right in with your Q active and scare them into their turret.
I like taking straight up 3 life steal quints. In a hard lane, be happy to tie and wait for a gank because just as Ashe is strong 2 v 1, she's strong 3 v 2. But here's the thing. You need life to follow up on a gank or else you'll go in to permaslow and end up a giving a free kill. That's where the life steal quints come in. They let you test how well you can bully a lane, if you can't you can get some HP back and wait for a gank.
Ashe is my favorite ADC. What I usually do is farm up to get a BFG fast and then I start taking more shots at the enemies. If you learn to recognize when they're going to try and CS a minion though, you can peg them one while their attack animation is going off. That's about as aggressive as I get for a while. Between harassing when they CS and your volley, that should be enough.
Check out Leaguecraft here, where they talk some about trading and ADC mechanics (among other things) if you don't know them already. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ywh...q-Ai82vgWej_fB
One thing that I do with Ashe is level up her E to at least lvl 3 or 4 pretty quickly. That helps me get an early gear lead (and therefor damage lead) on the enemy as long as I can keep up with the CS. Volley is my second skill since it can do a lot of damage and is a great way to CS multiple targets as well as harass. Having it on a low cool down helps. Her Q I start leveling as soon as it looks like ganks are going to happen or if the enemy keeps making mistakes. Basically if I get the feeling it might help my side secure kills. Otherwise her other skills are better for farming and pushing Ashe quicker into her endgame gear.
I really think that if you learn to trade well and use volley to supplement it then you shouldn't have much trouble with them being very aggressive. And don't get caught out of position. That usually means standing back unless you are going to trade when they move forward to CS or are going to CS yourself.
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Made you jump. It's about time a Syfy show had that effect on us again.
Syfy's Helix (Friday, 10/9c) is a chiller in every sense of the word, a welcome return to gripping sci-fi form for a network that has lately ceded bragging rights to AMC (The Walking Dead), FX (American Horror Story) and even The CW (The Vampire Diaries) in the competitive arena of hardcore genre buzz. The spirit of Michael Crichton permeates this claustrophobic exercise in suspenseful paranoia, from Battlestar Galactica's Ronald D. Moore and series creator Cameron Porsandeh, who sets the first season almost entirely at an icy Arctic research compound that's actually a hothouse for mysteriously grisly medical experiments.
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Things get awfully bloody on Friday with the explosive first-season finale of Cinemax's violent noir Banshee (10/9c), in which shootouts and long-simmering feuds leave such a gory trail that it almost puts to shame a new episode of Starz' reliably visceral Spartacus: War of the Damned (9/8c)."I must admit, you have an admirable knack for survival," understates the lethal ...
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On a hot fall afternoon just outside Charlotte, North Carolina, Antony Starr is busy getting punched in the kidneys, slammed against a wall and kicked in the solar plexus. As he pauses for a breath, a command comes: "Let's work on that strangling again!" Just a typical day on the set of Banshee.
Flash back to late April. On the first day of shooting, the actor playing Starr's opponent in a brawl came at him a bit too strong. "He cracked me in the face and split my lip open," Starr recalls, "but our schedule was so tight, I didn't get to the hospital for six hours." That's when Starr realized just how different filming Cinemax's noirish thriller would be from the comedies and dramas he was used to making in his native New Zealand. "They shot...
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What's your largest meal of the day??
I was just looking back at some of my food diaries, and when I first began LCing in 2011 I believe my biggest meal (and also most carbiest) of the day was dinner. However, two years later, I am finding my biggest meal to be lunch--I'm thinking this may be due to my more 'normal' schedule, or the fact that I'm most hungry in the afternoon but oddly enough, I also seem to 'run out' of carbs by the end of the day.... :confused:
I usually average around 300-400 cals (4 carbs) for breakfast/dinner and then lunch around 500-600 (10 carbs) . Snacks if needed are around 100-200 (2 carbs) usually 1x per day during the weekdays.
Just curious what is everyone's biggest meal of the day and has it always been that way, and maybe a reason for it? :stars:
Dinner at about 6pm.I am in the kitchen cooking for him indoors and the boy so I might as well cook my big meal then too.Just convenient I guess.
Mine is definitely and will always be breakfast :)
My dinner is ( slightly) larger than my lunch. I think it helps me sleep.
My dinner's the biggest, and definitely the most fattening of the bunch... also almost all my protein comes from dinner weirdly enough. I'm not sure if that'll ever change or not, but it seems to work for me. Except on days I'm not feeling particularly hungry like tonight :laugh:
Dinner, even though it's probably not the best option. But I've always been just naturally prone to consume more later in the day.
Most of the time it's Breakfast, then lunch and a smaller supper. But not always. I think I lose better if I eat my biggest meal for breakfast
Definitely dinner for me! I work all day so breakfast and lunch are leftovers or something quick and easy.
I generally only eat two meals a day, though I might have a snack too. Both meals are about the same size, but the dinner is the carbier of the two. I do better with my higher carb meal later in the day. But it's all relative, since I eat under twenty total grams of carbs daily; even the higher carb meal is very low.
I'm not good with a big breakfast. I have to be up for a while to be able to eat. I will mostly have tea (often with a teaspoon or two of coconut oil) first, and then eat a lunchy/brunchy meal somewhere around 11am-1pm. Then dinner will be maybe 8-9pm. I try not to eat a big meal within a few hours of going to bed, though I might have a fatty snack like a tablespoon or two of Splenda-sweetened cream cheese as a bedtime snack. That's only if I'm actually hungry, so maybe once or twice a week. I can't go to sleep hungry.
I do have hungry days when I'll eat more, or more often, but that's not my norm. I follow my stomach.
I only eat twice a day, no snacks, and they are pretty much equal (both around 600-700 calories).
Dinner, definitely, although I'll occasionally have a really big lunch mid-afternoon and very little for dinner.
Dinner is mine.
I think mine is lunch too, although they're all pretty close.
Lunch is my largest meal. Breakfast is bulletproof coffee and dinner is typically small.
Breakfast without a doubt.
Almost never eat breakfast. Lunch is huge.
Dinner! I'm a weird "snacky" small meal eater during the day!
Dinner for me
Dinner for me too. If I eat a big portion of my food during the day I feel very deprived in the evening. I almost feel panicky. If I save that bigger meal for the evening after working out, I feel like I will be ok until bedtime. Before LC I had a major eating problem t night so I'm sure this is why I feel this way.
I spend the majority of my daily carb budget on dinner and my evening snack. I know conventional thinking is to eat lighter later, but that won't work for me. I'm not tempted to eat off plan during the morning or afternoon, but evenings are always tougher. This way I am feasting during my vulnerable time.
Getting home from work, settling down for the evening, enjoying a lovely decadent dinner and tasty dessert while watching shows or movies with DH are part of the lifestyle I enjoy, so I made sure to make my WOE work around that. So far, so good.
Dinner for sure. That is the way that it always has been for me. I am pretty busy during the day so I couldn't eat a big meal if I wanted to. Plus I am just a best for last kind of girl.
Breakfast is my largest meal. Dinner is usually my smallest just because I am busy in the evenings. I always cook my daughter something..she is 4 and picky... and I have a salad/hard boiled egg/cheese.
breakfast and dinner are my big meals.
For lunch I generally have a "snack" usually some sour cream
sweetend with torani sf syrup, I toss in some walnuts and berries.
Mmmmm so delicious. It's a little carby, but really satisfies, especailly
after a workout at the gym.
I am still settling into my plan, but for now breakfast is the biggie, followed by lunch.
But I am really restricting carbs in reverse order, none at breakfast, a few at lunch, and more at dinner. I am an early riser, so my plan is to have a snack on hand late morning and mid to late afternoon. We will see how it goes.
Breakfast, usually a mini-quiche using up meat leftovers from the night before with a bit of cheese, is my "big" meal in terms of calories, but it is usually the smallest in terms of volume (about the size of my fist). Dinner will be a little more carby and be a greater volume (more veggies), but less calorie dense.
all my carbs are before 9:00 a.m., and my largest meal is at that time. this is the only method i've found that keeps carb cravings total away.
Since I began my weight loss journey, my biggest meal has always been breakfast. I suspect this is because I'm basically a "morning person" (at my best before noon), so morning nourishment is important.
Unless I have a social engagement, I just have 'meals' of about 100 cal at other times in the day, and I'm usually finished eating by 4 pm.
no breakfast, big lunch, small dinner
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Chipotle or Qdoba?
- crosby_p Apr 2, 2008 05:10 AM
Never been to either of these, but both are close...is one better than the other?
re: Janet from Richmond
I LOVE Chipotle and I am from Texas. I lke their Chicken Tacos with fresh salsa and corn salsa. I really like their guacamole and chips too. After 1 visit to Qdoba I felt riped off and wondered what the fuss was about!!
both are terrible,
find a local tacqueria and you will do 10x better than anything these 2 spots could turn out on their best day.
re: swsidejim
That isn't always an option...like here in Virginia.
re: Janet from Richmond
I would either go hungry, or change my dining plans if I was in that bad situation.
re: swsidejim
Maybe it's just the Chicago Chipotles...maybe it's Chicago's plethora of excellent Mexican and Sud Americano choices.
My sentiments exactly. Sometimes you just have to say no. Chipotle's popularized the Mission burrito, a food abomination in my mind.
I don't dig rice in my burrito(hated it when I lived in The Mission in the early 90's btw) and Chicago's Chipotles are hell on wheels...yes, you can request no rice, but if everything else is flavorless...what's to do?
...patronize a real taqueria?
if you don't have access to one how about making your own?
or, how about going without imo(not because it's a chain...because it's terrible) crap?
re: aelph
Both are mediocre... but in a pinch, I will eat at Chipotle... I go for a Bowl... with Barbacoa, Beans (Absolutely No Rice), Some Guac, Salsa & a beer. Its fairly authentic meal that way... but I certainly wouldn't eat Chipotle's food if I were in Mexico.
Qdoba is not even worth mentioning.
re: Eat_Nopal
Smart man about the rice... that is why I won't go there, that Cilantro rice is awful..
re: Dommy
I thought I was the only one who had a problem with the cilantro rice. I remember in college a Qdoba opened up and it seemed like the best thing in the world. One night I had a burrito (that was of course loaded with cilantro rice) and then had way too much to drink. Needless to say, I have never ate at a Qdoba, Chipotle, Pancheros, etc, again, and that was probably 7 years ago. Just the idea of the cilantro rice makes my stomach churn.
re: swsidejim
Neither are terrible. Are there better options? Sure, but Chipotle and Qdoba aren't bad options. That said, I prefer Chipotle by a wide margin if only for their carnitas, which are better than I've had at some local taquería's.
re: beerambassador
taste is subjective. To me they are both terrible. Luckily I have many tacquerias that make authentic carnita's.
if you like them enjoy.
re: swsidejim
I so agree with swsidejim here, but I understand that some areas don't have as many options. Where I am, Chipotle and Qdoba wouldn't cross my mind as options for food for my dog, but if I had to choose one, it would be Chipotle. I sincerely have no disdain for "Chain Restaurants" in general at all. I make my opinions based on each place I go to. If I liked Chipotle, or qdoba, I would have no problem saying so. I've only been to qdoba once, and was amazed at what a rip off it was. I've been to Chipotle probably five or six times in my life, and would have to say it is a better value for that type of food, but I have no reason to settle for either in my area. I'd skip both, and go to mcdonald's or subway first. If you are ever in Chicago, you can look up some places that will net you better mexican food (same menu items) with better ingredients for about half the price, at a different place for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for about a month. I'm not saying that I'm great, or I have a better life, or anything like that at all, I'm just saying that from a 'CH' standpoint, there would be really no reason at all for me to go to either. I'm sure you can say the exact same about certain foods where you're at that are far superior to Chicago, and you'd find it odd that someone would be trying to pick between two places that you consider horrendous since you can do much better all around you. Again, I really do not want to sound snotty at all, and I'm really not a snotty person in the least litrtle tiny bit, but I SO understand what swsidejim is saying here.
re: swsidejim
In Des Moines we have more than our share of mexican food, yet I have never had Carnitas. I recently heard of a couple of the nicer places that have good ones, but the taquerias don't seem to have them. Lots of good "marinated pork" tacos, just not the "fried crisp on the outside, tender and moist on the inside" carnitas that I've read about on CH, and so want to try. We are getting our first Chipotle here in a month or two. I've been looking forward to it just so I could grab a quick taco, and finally have Carnitas. It's Neiman Ranch pork, can it be that bad?
I now think of the time years ago I ordered Swordfish at a local place, before we had a good local source for seafood, and the waitress asked, " have you ever had swordfish?", I said "no". She replied, " I wouldn't start here".
Is this kinda the same thing?
re: Bobfrmia
I hate to say it, but, yes. Awesome waitress.
re: Bobfrmia
Concur.... despite the reputation of Niman Ranch... from a purely gustatory perspective... no its not particularly good pork... and further Chipotle doesn't know how to make Carnitas. Personally... I don't think much about the Carnitas most U.S. based 'Hounds rave about. I climbed Everest & spoke with the Guru... I've had Carnitas in the town of Uruapuan... few in California have come close... but compared to Chipotle.... CA's taquerias seem like Uruapan,Shangri-La
re: swsidejim
Maybe I'm in the minority here with this thought...but just because something is a local tacqueria doesn't automatically make it better than Chipotle or Qdoba.
That being said I think the only thing worth eating at Qdoba is their queso dip. Fan of Chipotle though.
re: MDoodle
maybe you just have bad tacquerias around you. Any I have been to in my area have been 10X better than my "burrito" I had @ Chipotle.
I am all for Chipotle & the like, it keeps the lines at my tacquerias shorter.
re: MDoodle
You are 100% absolutely correct. That statement, however, has nothing to do with what swsidejim wrote. I certainly agree with you though.
I've never had anything other than cheap, chewy, salty, overcooked garbage meat from a chipotle. I'd love to get each of the Chipotle fans to my favorite 'joints' so they could understand that carne asada is supposed to be tender, juicy, flavorful, char grilled skirt steak, and not salty stewed chuck steak; Carnitas is pork fried in lard; barbacoa should be far to succulent and rich to have more than a little bit; tacos should be served on two griddle or grill warmed corn tortillas, and stuffed full of enough meat to use the second tortilla; flour tortillas were never meant to be steamed until they are a gummy, gross mess... And the list would go one if you were to only experience what real "fast mexican food" is. I know, I know, these places are targeting consumers on a more global level, so it has to appeal to kids, and older folks alike just like Mcdonald's does, but I just can't for the life of me understand the draw. Do folks really overcook meats until they are a chewy mess like that at home?
re: gordeaux
That's why I get a vegetarian bol there...i don't like the meat or tortillas, for the exact reasons you list. I like the rice, the salsas, fajita veggies, guac, etc. Fine tacquerias here...unfortunately, none within walking distance from my office. Work with what you've got, is my philosophy. Hence - the veggie bol.
Personally, I like them both....Chipotle is more of a burrito place and Qdoba has a broader menu......they're both near me and it depends on my mood which one I go to....
If you live in Chicago, etc., more power to you, but I done think the OP asked about what superior food you can get in your town. He/she asked about chains on the board designated for such topics.
To get back on track - of the two, I like them both for different things. The carnitas and the chips at Chipolte are better, IMHO, but I prefer the salsa at Qdoba. But I think either is a decent option for a fast-food'ish Mexican lunch and both are FAR superior to Taco Bell and the like.
Overall, I'd say Chipotle is better than Qdoba. Chipotle's carnitas and barbacoa are better than the meats at Qdoba. Chipotle's guacamole is better than Qdoba's. Now that Qdoba has dropped the Chicken Mole burrito from their menu, the only thing there that I really like is their tortilla soup. Neither place is great.
I prefer Chipotle's carnitas and barbacoa, but Qdoba does make a decent chicken which I prefer to Chipotle. Qdoba also has a wider selection of salsas & sauces, but Chipotle has better ingredients from a taste and sustainablity preference. Since you are close to both, why not try them both? Anyone who thinks these places are terrible has not had a truly awful burrito.
re: Sacto_Damkier
I had a truly awful burrito, at Chipotle, it set the bar as low as it could be.
Now I know better.
CH is about people expressing opinions on food both positive an negative, it would be useless if it was a one sided love fest.
re: swsidejim
Truly awful would be rancid meat with moldy cheese wrapped in a stale burrito. I sincerely doubt this describes the average Chipotle burrito. It may not be the best of the best of the best, but it is not truly awful.
re: Sacto_Damkier
No, I have never consumed rancid meat and moldy cheese burrito.
I did have a chicken burrito from chipotle that had dry, flavorless chicken, clumpy, falvorless rice, and sour salsas.
Neither are acceptable.
re: swsidejim
That would be a bad burrito, but using the term truly awful is a bit of a hyperbole. I have had many good burritos there and know many people who have also had many good burritos there. Your opinion - though completely valid - is in the minority.
re: Sacto_Damkier
I guess I'm lucky Iive in Chicago.
re: swsidejim
I live in LA where we have some of the best tacquerias in the country and still would not consider the burrito at Chipotle awful by any stretch. Sorry that you had a bad experience, but I agree with Sacto that I've had far worse burritos than the ones at Chipotle (I actually like Chipotle when I'm in the mood for a mission-style burrito). And I agree with Dommy that Q'doba just seems a little grimey, at least the one near me.
Oh man...I for one feel qualified to answer this question.
For a long time, I loathed Chipotle and would rant to friends that Qdoba is wayyy better and far superior. I LOVED Qdoba's tacos and Chipotle's paled in comparison.
But I've finally realized that they just have different strengths. Qdoba's tacos ARE better but Chipotle does make a killer burrito. So it depends which food you like more.That's my two cents.
My main issue with Qdoba is that it's scuzzy. The one here's counter is always a mess. At Chipotle they clean up after themselves or have a better 'spooning' techinique...
Chipotle does make a point of sourcing quaity, organic ingredients though, or at least they are good at getting press coverage about it. There was a Post article not too long ago about how the Charlottesville, VA Chipotles are now getting their pork exclusively from Polyface Farms, of Omnivore's Dilemma fame. Oh look, I found a link
In my experience, they are the same. We also have a Moe's. I can only compare the burritos that weigh in excess of 16 oz. However, Qdoba offers the best breakfast burritos around.
They each have their strong point depending on what you're looking for. I love the nachos at Qboda (order the chips on the side. I always ask for rice and beans. The queso is amazing!) but don't care for the burritos or tacos very much. Chipotle has better burritos, I think, but be prepared for a little heat as their rice has something in it that makes it have some kick.
Granted, neither of them is "authentic", but I don't think they claim to be so it doesn't bother me.
re: Nachoman45
Chipotle's rice is made with cilantro and lime juice, which gives it that tanginess. I make rice with their recipe all the time now, and here is one version of the recipe: http://www.recipezaar.com/147335


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