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Saeco - Incanto Auto Espresso Machine
Yes / No / Maybe?
Seems like a good deal...
Looking for a decent bean to cup machine - mainly for straight up black coffee and cuppachinos.
Also keen to know. Anyone?
Morning, some recommendations please...
I do have a manual burr grinder & plunger, but now want a machine that produces a good espresso & occasional cappuccino.
The budget is R10k, but I can reconsider upping if needs be.
The criteria is, a good cuppa, also must produce hot coffee (I had a nespresso machine which I gave away, because it was just not hot enough, plus I wasn't happy with pods from an environmental point of view), reliability & cost of maintenance.
A strong possibility would be the entry Jura machine at about R10K? What else should I consider?
TIA
Fizzy drinks are off the menu, as is white sugar on anything, and sweets & biscuits.
:-)
Just checking on your progress? Why cut only white sugar? Sugar is sugar!
Ok, not wanting to highjack Bonus's thread and turn it into something he did not intend, but I really think I have some relevant information to share. Various claims have been made on this thread regarding whether a high carb or high fat diet is the healthiest. I have tried both at different times and have seen some remarkable numbers. To keep it short and simple I am not going to bore you with all the exact numbers of all the blood work that has been done on me over the last years.
I have homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia, which means, I inherited the high cholesterol gene from both my parents. Years ago, when first discovered, my total cholesterol number was 9.9 mmol/l. Blame my German and Dutch forefathers for this! Apparently this kind of elevated cholesterol is difficult to contain, even with the highest doses of Statins. Luckily I don't suffer from any of the nasty side effects of statins like a lot of people do.
Treatment with statins brought this down to just under 7, which is still very high. On recommendation of my Dr I went on a very, very strict low fat diet for 3 months. Cutting almost all saturated fats from my diet. I ate lots of supposedly healthy whole grain and legume products, vegetables, fruit, low fat sweetened yoghurt, and only the leanest of lean meats. Guess what? Nothing positive really happened to my lipogram. In fact, it got worse. Total cholesterol number stayed roughly the same, but the LDL C (bad one) went slightly up, and the HDL C (good one) dropped significantly, below 0.9 mmol/l. Wat was most alarming though is that the triglyceride level shot up to 2.7 mmol/l, and the glucose level also went up to 7, quite close to the 7.8 healthy cutoff point. Clearly low fat diet wasn't working for me.
I returned to my 'normal' mixed, 'healthy' diet. Blood numbers also returned to previous levels, ie improvements in the good cholesterol, glucose, and triglyceride levels.
About 4 years ago I started reading up on LCHF and its claimed health improvements. My Cardiologist advised against me trying it. Nonetheless I decided to try it and for 3 months I went very low carb, staying below 50 g per day. Only carbs I got was from green leafy vegetables and salads. I ate red meat with fat, butter on my veggies, cream, olive and coconut oil and macadamia nuts, and NO fruit. I was at a BMI of 26.5 at that moment in my life. After 3 months BMI dropped to 24.2. Total C came down to 6.5. HDL C went up to 1.5, triglycerides dropped to a very healthy 0.75 and blood glucose dropped the most to 4 mmol/l.
It is quite a mission to remain at that very low carb levels. At this moment in my life I average about 100 to 120 grams carbs per day. I still don't eat any grains, cereal, bread or sugar. I eat the occasional fruit and treat it as natures candy. (It is really amazing, after a couple of months with no sugar or starch, how sweet fruit suddenly tastes! Certain varieties of apples like golden delicious and pink lady for example is nauseatingly sweet and I can not eat it any more) My latest blood work indicates the following: Total c 6.5, LDL 4.5, HDL 1.4, triglycerides 0.85, blood glucose 4.5.
Cardiologist very happy with the improvements in the numbers, but still wont advise his other patients to follow suit. I think he is only afraid of possible claims against him. Much easier to follow conventional wisdom and stay on the moral high ground, even if it might be wrong.
Experiment with an open mind on your body in your own unique circumstances and see what works for you.
On a side note, despite my mom and dads high cholesterol, and the fact that my dad smoked for most of his life, they both lived to quite a healthy age, 72 and 83 respectively. Neither died from cardiovascular causes. Here is the shocker, thinking back to my childhood, we as a family ate a high fat diet on the farm. Homegrown mutton, beef, eggs, homemade butter, and full fat dairy. We ate very little processed food though. Bread was homemade, lots of times from our own wheat. Porridge was also from homegrown maize, milled on the farm. Makes one think!
Great post, well written. Importantly, could be life changing for some hubbers! Thanks for sharing.
Sparkling water?
Good call, don't forget to add some fermented barley & hops 
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Good thing he got to the front quickly, no harm done.
Yes it is excellent
https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/03/wahoo-elemnt-bolt-in-depth-review.html
Ray produces the most ridiculously thorough reviews and he is obsessed with preserving his objectivity.
If I didn't already own the Garmin Edge 520 when this was released I would have gone with the Bolt.
Wow - that's quite some review!
Thanks, it will come in quite handy once I get delivery, which should be sometime today.
The Wahoo is a really great unit and is certainly a competitor with the Garmins.
However, the deal breaker for the Wahoo for a lot of people is that it doesn't sync with Discovery - so no vitality points
I'm with Momentum, but not on their rewards program, so that's just fine.
Thanks for the added feedback/confirmation - I should have it on Tuesday...
Thanks Travis for the heads up!
Also, thanks Christiaan - I'm now also included in your select group. Sadly, I've had to pay for the privilege. No freebies for weekend warriors 
Admittedly I don't actually know the normal price of these but just in case...
(And I'm too lazy to check)
Wahoo Elemnt Bolt Bike Computer
https://sport.takealot.com/sport-wahoo-elemnt-bolt-bike-computer/PLID45037150
Seems a good deal.
Is this Wahoo any good?
Loving the stories....I can relate to most.
Over the years fall off the MTB was a bounce or tuck n roll - i.e. pretty quickly back on the feet.
However, I took a tumble last year, no bounce, no tuck n roll, just a solid splat on the ground! While laying in the dirt, my brain was telling me I'm back on my feet again, but my body didn't agree & just continued to get accustomed to the horizontal position...i just thought WTF & had a good laugh. But for the ego, no damage ensued!
Still my biggest gripe with 50+... jeez, the frustration...
I must own about 20 pairs of glasses... one for the computer currently on my face, reading glasses in bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, each car, the garage/workshop... and all over, another "further-looking"-pair next to bed for watching tv, and the multifocals I wear everywhere else...
And I am forever looking for the damn things... I'm also sounding like the old oom...
Haha....in addition to the "further-looking" & computer work pair, closer reading glasses have been added to the mix for me. Apparently my farsightedness has however improved!
Ah, the over 50's club! I'm enjoying the membership so far.
Like some else mentioned, I too spend more time on the adventure bike than the bicycle these days.
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Some 80's nostalgia.
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