42: November AOTS (Part 1) - Glucosamine Gains

This month we're sharing part 1 of our usually paywalled All Of the Snacks Episode with you. If you've never listened to Can I Have Another Snack? podcast before, then you're in for a treat. The format is this: listeners send in their Qs, audio engineer Lucy and I answer them for you. Like a listener said in our CIHAS survey:

'I love the chats with Lucy you've been doing! Feels a little more cozy, like we are all sitting around having tea. And nice to have another perspective in the mix.'

Or simply:

'I love Lucy <3'

Me too friend, me too.

In this episode we discuss:

👉 Our synchronised decorating related life updates - Lucy's successful, mine, less so.
👉 A good story about a pup with sore knees and whether glucosamine supplements are worth it for knee pain
👉 And how to handle it when your teen starts talking about getting enough protein for 'gains'

In part 2 (dropping in 2 weeks), we're going to talk about the trifecta that is PCOS, insulin resistance and perimenopause. Plus how to feed your kids when *everything is bad for them* and, nostalgic party foods. Become a paid subscriber now to get your private RSS feed to listen in your favourite podcast app.

Enjoy the episode!

Episode Transcript

Intro

Laura: Hey and welcome to the Can I Have Another Snack? podcast, where we talk about food, bodies, and identity, especially through the lens of parenting. I'm Laura Thomas, I'm a Weight Inclusive Registered Nutritionist, and I also write the Can I Have Another Snack? newsletter. 

Lucy: And hello, I'm Lucy Dearlove, I'm the podcast editor on Can I Have Another Snack? and I also host a food podcast called Lecker.

Hi Laura, how are you? 

Laura: Hey, yeah, I'm good. I always feel like when you introduce yourself, you're so, like, chipper and happy. That makes me… 

Lucy: Hi!! I was just thinking, I feel like it's different every time. I haven't, like, nailed down a formula, but maybe I'll get there eventually. 

Laura: We'll get into the hang of things just like it's only been like what, a year?

Lucy: Twelve? No, not that many. 

Laura: But, uh, I am, I'm keen to hear what your life updates are for us. 

Lucy: Well, my main life update, as you can see from your screen, where I am speaking to you from, is that I have been painting my living room, which is a blessing and a curse. I have lived in this flat for just over a year now, and we were sort of very fortunate in lots of ways in that when we moved here, we had a, they had done a full reno and it was like nice floors….

Um, some of it, I'm going to be honest, is a little bit landlord special, like they, the kitchen and bathroom are like very, the sort of thing you would put into a flat that you're going to do as a buy to let, because you don't, you want it to be ‘neutral’, which is like extremely not my vibe. And we're now sort of, like, reluctantly living with it because it feels like very wasteful to rip out…anyway.

But so we've been slowly just trying to, like, decide what rooms need to be which colours because they were all just painted like that very basic white that you get, like, the white paint that you get that's like the cheapest white. Boring. And it's also painted like relatively badly. So it's like the walls haven't necessarily been prepped and like anyway, we've been dealing with all of that. And as you can see from your screen, but I will describe it for the sake of this being audio, is that my living room is quite like an odd shape, in that it's, it's a normal shaped room, but it has this like, really wild ceiling.

Laura: Look, you have a waffle on your roof.  

Lucy: It's pretty much a waffle. Yeah, it's a full on like waffle…layers, it's just like there's bits all over the ceiling. I don't know how else to describe it to you. Waffle is a great way of putting it. I'm definitely going to steal that. I live in this, um, like listed building that is, basically looks like a ship from the outside.

And they don't have this in every flat because I've looked at a lot of listings of flats for sale because I'm so curious about this whole, like, wild place that I live. But yeah, the flats at this end just have this, like, slightly, inexplicable roof structure that I think is some sort of support, but is certainly something when you've decided to paint the ceiling the same colour.

So I've been doing a lot of cutting in. I have to thank the, the decorators of TikTok, who have been like just really great resource for, uh, I was like, right, we're going to paint it ourselves. I don't want to be messing around with a crappy little roller that we've had for years. I, I want to, I want an extender, I want a roller that's actually good. I want some paint brushes that don't cost two pounds. So I went on Paint Tok and I found some great recommendations and it's, it's served us really well. I feel very pro with my, like, extender…roller…pole. Even if it does still really hurt my arms. But, um, yeah…. 

Laura: It looks amazing! It was the first thing I commented on when your screen switched on. 

Lucy: Thank you! It was! And you didn't even know. Yeah, yeah. It's kind of a very millennial pink. Which I will just never get over. I love millennial pink. 

Laura: If anyone does want to look at Lucy’s wall colour,  we established that it is Lick Pink 13, colour matched.

Lucy: It is. Colour matched. Crucial info.

Laura: She didn't buy it from Lick, are you mad? 

Lucy: Am I an animal? 

Laura: And the funny part is that I have the exact swatch up on my wall because we're doing some renovating/painting/home improvement disasters. What's the antithesis of home improvement?

Home. Destroying? Destruction? I would say that's probably where we're at. Yeah. Yeah. 

Lucy: Okay. So. But you have not gone with the Pink 13. It has not, it has not passed the test. 

Laura: Oh, well, I have, I have bigger fish to fry than trying to figure out my living room colour right now because I have destroyed my kitchen.

So the Lick samples on the wall right now in the living room. We're not going to get to that for quite a while because basically we have the opposite kitchen to you because the people who lived here previously thought it would just be such a fucking great idea to get a custom made kitchen.

And I know that you, side note, Lucy has a whole series on Lecker about kitchens, which you should really listen to. So it is, it is, we'll link to it in the show notes. It's a fitted kitchen, but it's been custom built, which makes it sound a lot fancier than it is because it's literally just like a, like two sides of a wall.

Lucy: Yeah, okay. Kind of like a galley kitchen. 

Laura: Like an R. Not either side, but like around a corner. 

Lucy: I see. Yes. 

Laura: Not enough storage. Nothing on the walls. Which I get why they did, because it would make it feel quite closed in, but we have to have, like, a sideboard.

Lucy: You've got to have storage in the kitchen though. This is the problem, like there's just no good solution really in a small kitchen. I have this as well. 

Laura: Yeah,  it's a whole thing. But basically, because it's a custom kitchen, they painted it. Okay. Farrow & Ball, Hague, number, I can't, I would have to check the number.

So it's like a deep, it's like a deep blue, you can look it up. I will permit typing, um, cause you're the one who has to edit it out. 

Lucy: I'll just, I'll just cut my mic, it's fine. 

Laura: Yeah. So it's like a deep blue. It's like, it was like very, I feel like it was a trendy colour, like five, six years ago. And so it's like this deep navy blue.

And it's really nice. We've got a white countertop. It's a nice kitchen, don't get me wrong. Except the paint chips like a motherfucker. 

Lucy: I have heard this about Farrow & Ball. Like, I have heard this. 

Laura: And it's not so much, it's not so much chipping, it's just like, you know, where you're opening doors, it's kind of worn away.

There are, like, little nicks and, like, bits that you can see the wood coming through. So, genius here was like, I'll just order, I'll just order a little sample tin. And touch up, touch up the paint. Okay. So, I order my little sample tin. It arrives. It's like, 9:30 on a Saturday night. Avery is finally in bed.

I'm like, Dave, we're just fucking doing this. We're just doing it right now because otherwise, it's never gonna get done. Yeah, so we pull out all the drawers, take the fronts off, like YouTube, ‘how do you even do this?’. And then I just go hard with my touch ups, right, on my paintbrush. And like halfway through the kitchen, I'm looking over at the door that I started at and I'm like: ‘this is a different finish’.

And I was like, and Dave was like, ‘just keep going. It will dry. It will be okay’. It will be fine. And I was like, ‘this is drying like fucking chalk all over my kitchen cabinets’.  

Lucy: So it was the matte one? 

Laura: So it turns out that Farrow & Ball have about 20 different finishes, but they only have a sample that comes in one finish and it's the mattest sample, like mattest, like finish that you can get. So it's 2 percent gloss. And I figured out, well, I don't know because the previous owners just told me Farrow & Ball, this is the colour, the Hague Blue. They didn't say anything about finish. So in my mind I was like, well, clearly there's only one finish.

And then when, when I ordered the sample and I couldn't choose a finish, I was like, well, that proves that there is, like, I don't have to worry about that. And then I find out that the, like, I figure out through a process of deduction that the one that they probably used was, like, the, the 40 percent sheen.

So that's like a 38 percent difference. And when I tell you, this is like, it's like chalk.

Lucy: That is infuriating. 

Laura: It's mortifying. I will take a picture